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values | docket_id stringlengths 1 1.07k | null listlengths 1 1.14k ⌀ |
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17 | 2014-10-31 02:33:10.810318+00 | 2024-06-25 04:29:12.146483+00 | C | Ayala | Ayala v. Shinseki | 898f21803ba8c5eea92aba5072e1d3c8a3714b96 | http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/files/audio/13-2260.mp3 | mp3/2014/10/28/ayala_v._shinseki_cl.mp3 | mp3/2014/10/28/ayala_v._shinseki.mp3 | 879 | t | f | 1 | Good afternoon, judges. My name is Vladimir Mikhailovich. I represent the appellant in this case. The appellant in this case raised one issue. The issue of whether the continuing violation doctrine applies to this case. In its decision, in the summary judgment on page 22 of the addendum, the district court decided to d... | 1 | 2590700 | null | |||||
45838 | 2018-09-11 20:59:34.983058+00 | 2024-06-24 05:08:24.36238+00 | C | Chong | Chong v. Holder | Pregerson, Reinhardt, Tashima | 16bd4a3e9446a9ab351ab681178017e4a631547d | mp3/2010/03/17/chong_v._holder_cl.mp3 | mp3/2010/03/17/chong_v._holder.mp3 | 3355 | t | f | 1 | You're putting your 20 minutes to a bono count? Your Honor, I'm Lion Boylan, and I am the attorney for the petition. Ms. Megan Barbero is also here. I'll be going first, and then she will, for 10 minutes, be next. Okay. With your echoing, I'll set up, but I'll do the best that we can with the echo. Should I begin? Plea... | 1 | 7847882 | null | |||||
94408 | 2024-10-07 23:30:33.989273+00 | 2025-02-11 21:30:22.484344+00 | C | United States v. Leprinceton Burks | PAEZ, NGUYEN, HURWITZ | 27b94144247fc8749b9b66a1bea1cc2adb56f619 | mp3/2024/10/07/united_states_v._leprinceton_burks_cl.mp3 | mp3/2024/10/07/united_states_v._leprinceton_burks.mp3 | 2537 | t | f | 1 | Our last case for argument this afternoon is U.S. v. Burks. Let's give counsel a few minutes. You don't have to rush. Take your time. We'll give you a few minutes to set up. All right. When you're ready, counsel. Good morning, Your Honors. I'm Carl Gunn. I'm representing Mr. Burks. I'm going to try to save four minutes... | 1 | 69233649 | null | ||||||
25291 | 2016-09-27 00:28:24.94436+00 | 2024-06-24 21:10:27.105078+00 | C | Marie Weaver v. City of Twinsburg Ohio | 5592a02ba839bdf78591533f99e0dd7899fbd4ad | http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/internet/court_audio/audio/08-01-2014 - Friday/13-4011 Marie Weaver v City of Twinsburg Ohio.mp3 | mp3/2014/08/01/marie_weaver_v._city_of_twinsburg_ohio_cl.mp3 | mp3/2014/08/01/marie_weaver_v._city_of_twinsburg_ohio.mp3 | 1950 | t | f | 1 | oral argument at 3.15 minutes to try. Judge Elfin, please come to the podium. Thank you, Your Honor. I'm supposed to remember that I want to reserve four minutes for rebuttal. Good morning, Judge Clay, Judge Stranch, Judge Black. My name is Bruce Elfin and I'm here on behalf of Marie Weaver. Marie Weaver is the non-mov... | 1 | 4425880 | null | ||||||
15173 | 2016-01-29 18:33:52.897528+00 | 2024-06-25 01:28:55.637659+00 | C | In re: Creadell Hubbard | In re: Creadell Hubbard | Roger L. Gregory, Pamela A. Harris, Andre M. Davis | 17f8fae5cc83a26bd6c06712a0d0540fd6b7ef06 | http://coop.ca4.uscourts.gov/OAarchive/mp3/15-0276-20160128.mp3 | mp3/2016/01/28/in_re_creadell_hubbard_cl.mp3 | mp3/2016/01/28/in_re_creadell_hubbard.mp3 | 2265 | t | f | 1 | May it please the court, I'm Paul Sun, I represent Creadell Hubbard. Mr. Hubbard has made the prima facie showing required for this court to authorize his filing of his second 2255 motion. Mr. Hubbard has shown that it is reasonably likely that in Johnson v. United States, the law made retroactive by the Supreme Court ... | 1 | 3032404 | null | ||||
11806 | 2015-03-30 16:35:43.09993+00 | 2024-06-25 02:15:06.364094+00 | C | Lisa Dunn v. Carolyn Colvin | Diana Gribbon Motz, Roger L. Gregory, Mary G. Lewis | b207793e409a2462eb2c66f3d9ad76ecc93e468b | http://coop.ca4.uscourts.gov/OAarchive/mp3/14-1565-20150325.mp3 | mp3/2015/03/25/lisa_dunn_v._carolyn_colvin_cl.mp3 | mp3/2015/03/25/lisa_dunn_v._carolyn_colvin.mp3 | 3 | 2059 | t | f | 1 | With all due respect, Mr. Martin, something happens between year 33 and 36, apparently. I feel like I've been at this a long time. My name is Bruce Billman. I represent Lisa Dunn in this matter. I want to sincerely thank the Court for offering us the opportunity to offer further comments about the very important issues... | 1 | 2645413 | null | ||||
8 | 2014-10-31 02:15:18.046214+00 | 2024-06-25 04:29:43.484928+00 | C | Del-Valle-Cruz | United States v. Del-Valle-Cruz | e198f48cd09cacbadccef0caca436f5526c0aac4 | http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/files/audio/13-1050.mp3 | mp3/2014/10/29/united_states_v._del-valle-cruz_cl.mp3 | mp3/2014/10/29/united_states_v._del-valle-cruz.mp3 | 1255 | t | f | 1 | "United States v. Carlos Manuel Del-Valle-Cruz Mr. Burgos, good morning. Good morning, your honors. (...TRUNCATED) | 1 | 2590691 | null | |||||
10 | 2014-10-31 02:21:10.879184+00 | 2024-06-25 04:30:01.199413+00 | C | Mulero-Carrillo | Mulero-Carrillo v. Roman-Hernandez | bdb98d2e3cec92b7f9d82203cae99896a2fc6a4d | http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/files/audio/13-2267.mp3 | mp3/2014/10/29/mulero-carrillo_v._roman-hernandez_cl.mp3 | mp3/2014/10/29/mulero-carrillo_v._roman-hernandez.mp3 | 1782 | t | f | 1 | "May it please the Court again, Attorney Carlos Del Valle on behalf of the plaintiff appellates. You(...TRUNCATED) | 1 | 2590693 | null | |||||
56601 | 2018-09-12 00:57:24.267835+00 | 2024-06-23 18:31:12.085767+00 | C | Machic | Machic v. Ashcroft | Hall, Trott, Callahan | 04f9b0c7c8d725cf8638cfcc71aebc0a0b81eaef | mp3/2004/03/29/machic_v._ashcroft_cl.mp3 | mp3/2004/03/29/machic_v._ashcroft.mp3 | 1330 | t | f | 1 | "May it please the Court, my name is Curtis Pearce. I'm here appearing on behalf of the petitioner, (...TRUNCATED) | 1 | 7860132 | null | |||||
16109 | 2016-04-21 00:47:53.026143+00 | 2024-06-25 01:16:04.703472+00 | C | In Re Queen's University at Kingston | In Re Queen's University at Kingston | d87849dfdf3fbc0d993bed0cd2c419a98ffc3f03 | http://oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov/default.aspx?fl=2015-0145.mp3 | mp3/2015/12/02/in_re_queens_university_at_kingston_cl.mp3 | mp3/2015/12/02/in_re_queens_university_at_kingston.mp3 | 2102 | t | 2016-04-20 | f | 1 | "We have one case this morning in Re Queen's University at Kingston involving a petition for a writ (...TRUNCATED) | 1 | 3056201 | null |
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US Court Oral Arguments -- metadata and transcripts
Source & credit — Free Law Project / CourtListener
Every recording catalogued here was collected and catalogued by CourtListener, and this dataset is sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30. CourtListener is a project of Free Law Project — a 501(c)(3) non-profit building free public access to American law since 2010. They gathered the arguments; we reformatted the catalogue. Go to the source: https://www.courtlistener.com.
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103,226 oral-argument recordings from U.S. courts (federal appellate, state supreme and appellate, and others), catalogued by the Free Law Project / CourtListener. This dataset holds the metadata and machine transcripts -- case name, court, date, duration, the original court audio URL, and the speech-to-text transcript where one exists -- NOT the multi-terabyte audio itself, which stays on each court's media server (the download_url on every row).
Sliced from the CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
A row holds
Court, case name, docket, date argued, duration, the court download_url for the MP3, and the STT transcript plus its status. Oral argument is a distinct legal source: it shows how the judges actually probed the case, often revealing reasoning the written opinion omits.
Load it
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("docketx/oral-arguments-us")
Public-domain court records. Part of the DocketX open legal corpus (docketx.ai), alongside docketx/us-caselaw and the per-jurisdiction docketx/us-caselaw-* sets.
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