endomorphosis/ipfs_brazil_caselaw

WARNING: personal data as published. These decisions are reproduced exactly as published by the Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ). They contain full names of individuals (parties, defendants, lawyers, third parties), may contain CPF/RG/CNPJ number patterns and contain sensitive content (for example criminal proceedings and health information). Names were not pseudonymised. The only text changes are the replacement of CPF, RG and CNPJ numbers (at least 4 digits), Luhn-valid card numbers and personal webmail addresses with markers (0 replacements in this chunk). Decisions under segredo de justiça/sigilo, involving minors, family law or sexual offences were excluded as whole decisions. Use for research only; do not use this data to profile or contact individuals. See Takedown below.

Brazil caselaw: Superior Tribunal de Justiça (chunk BR-STJ-1)

Unofficial copy for research; not the authoritative text. The STJ's own publication (Diário da Justiça / processo.stj.jus.br) remains authoritative.

Contents

config	data file	rows	source
cases	data/cases-00000.parquet	200	STJ Portal de Dados Abertos, "Íntegras de Decisões Terminativas e Acórdãos do Diário da Justiça", daily file 20250626

Selection: the acórdãos (tipoDocumento ACÓRDÃO, 2,978 records) of the daily metadata file metadados20250626.json, ordered by SeqDocumento descending (all records of the file share the publication date 2025-06-26), screened by the whole-decision exclusion rules below; the first 200 survivors were kept. 266 acórdãos were screened (200 kept, 66 excluded); the remaining 2,710 acórdãos of the file were not screened or included. Decisions (monocratic DECISÃO records) were not selected. Judging-session end dates: 2025-06-23 (198 rows); 2 rows have no session date in the text (decision_date null).

The texts and metadata come from two files downloaded once from the dataset page (textos20250626.zip, 23,916,132 bytes, sha256 71b4341b8498570a0e1d7f7101a43c4cb8c90862380e016bd153ac2eb3671731; metadados20250626.json, 3,089,144 bytes, sha256 fd41403f988481d2efebb528f9dfc915ba2edfdd3ff68a090b2e357d6cab6471; retrieved 2026-10-29 09:20–09:21 PT). No other STJ request was made for this chunk; the CKAN /api/ path was never used.

Columns (25, all strings, same names as the sibling caselaw repos): case_id (STJ-numeroRegistro-SeqDocumento), ecli (null: no ECLI), jurisdiction (BR), court (Superior Tribunal de Justiça), court_id (br-stj), document_type (acórdão), decision_date (last day of the judging session stated in the text; null in 2 rows), issued (dataPublicacao, publication in the Diário da Justiça), docket_numbers (JSON: processo, recurso, numeroRegistro, SeqDocumento), title (recurso + processo), subject (JSON: assuntos code), procedure (JSON: teor, dataRecebimento, dataDistribuição), language (pt), parties (null: the source has no party fields; names appear in the text), parties_note, judges (NM_MINISTRO, the rapporteur), inhoudsindicatie (null), text, source_url (STJ case-search link for the numeroRegistro; not fetched), api_url (ZIP URL + member name), source_retrieved_at, source_sha256 (raw TXT member), provenance (JSON), license, license_text.

Text: the TXT member with HTML line breaks turned into newlines, tags removed, entities decoded and whitespace normalised per line; otherwise as published.

Licence

Row label: Creative Commons Atribuição (as published on the dataset page). Quoted from https://dadosabertos.web.stj.jus.br/dataset/integras-de-decisoes-terminativas-e-acordaos-do-diario-da-justica (fetched 2026-10-29), section "Licença": "Creative Commons Atribuição", linked to http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by. The same page states: "Não estão disponíveis dados de processos em segredo de justiça." Attribution: Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ), Portal de Dados Abertos do STJ. The YAML licence field cc-by-4.0 is the closest Hub identifier; the page does not state a version. The robots.txt of the portal (Disallow: /api/, Crawl-Delay: 10) was respected.

Exclusions (whole decisions, never redaction)

Screens run on the accent-folded full text and metadata; any hit excludes the whole decision ("when in doubt, exclude"; broad terms, so false positives are expected):

• segredo de justiça / sigilo (segredo, sigilo, sigiloso)
• youth / menores (ECA, Estatuto da Criança, ato infracional, adolescente, menor, criança, socioeducativo, Lei 8.069)
• family law (família/familiar, guarda, alimentos, divórcio, separação judicial, adoção, poder familiar, união estável, paternidade/maternidade, cônjuge, Maria da Penha, Lei 11.340, violência doméstica)
• sexual offences (estupro, estupro de vulnerável, crimes contra vulnerável, dignidade sexual, sexual/sexualmente (abuso, violação, exploração, importunação sexual), ato libidinoso, atentado violento ao pudor, conjunção carnal, pornografia, assédio, corrupção de menores, lenocínio, prostituição, rufianismo, Lei 12.015; arts. 213, 215, 215-A, 216-A, 217-A, 218, 218-A, 218-B, 227, 228, 229, 230 (any code, so civil-code hits are excluded too); arts. 240/241 near ECA/Lei 8.069; vítima within 80 characters of menor/criança/adolescente/infante)

Counts and case ids are in manifests/MANIFEST.md. Parser br-stj-1.1.

Personal data

Names are kept exactly as published (no pseudonymisation), including any initials the Court itself used. CPF, RG and CNPJ numbers with at least 4 digits are replaced by [CPF REMOVIDO], [RG REMOVIDO], [CNPJ REMOVIDO]; Luhn-valid card numbers by [CARTAO REMOVIDO]; personal webmail by [EMAIL REMOVIDO]. Institutional addresses are kept. manifests/pii_log.json records counts, character positions and short hashes salted with a per-run random salt that was discarded (the values cannot be recovered from it). In this chunk: 0 replacements. scrapers/test_redaction_br.py checks the replacement on synthetic strings (CPF/RG/CNPJ with 4 or more digits replaced, 3-digit numbers and process numbers untouched).

Disclaimer

This dataset is provided for research and is not legal advice. It is not published by or affiliated with the Superior Tribunal de Justiça. Texts may be corrected or withdrawn at the source; always check the official publication.

Takedown

If you are a party, lawyer, judge or rights holder and want a row corrected or removed, open a discussion on this dataset's Hugging Face page (Community tab) and give the case_id or processo number. Rows are removed or corrected in the next revision; the official source remains authoritative.