Fact-check legal and court claims on Chrome before citing, publishing, advising, or resharing them.
Start with one docket reference, lawsuit summary, complaint allegation, ruling claim, settlement claim, quoted filing excerpt, statute claim, or court-record screenshot, then run a FactSentinel first-step source check before you rely on it.
Start with the exact legal or court claim.
Legal and court claims often compress a filing, docket update, hearing quote, statutory reference, complaint allegation, order, judgment, or settlement story into one confident sentence. A practical Chrome workflow starts by isolating that sentence and checking whether the visible source trail supports the exact wording and procedural posture.
1. Preserve record context
Keep the case name, court, jurisdiction, docket number, filing date, document type, quoted wording, party attribution, procedural posture, and source link before summarizing the claim.
2. Run FactSentinel
Review legal source trails, docket context, document dates, allegation status, ruling scope, quotation context, jurisdiction clues, independent corroboration, caveats, confidence, reasoning, and model agreement.
3. Cite or share cautiously
Open the source trail and decide whether to cite with caveats, consult the official record, ask counsel or the clerk, keep reading, correct the wording, or avoid resharing the claim.
Legal and court claims worth slowing down for.
Start where a real court record can still be misread. Allegations are not findings, orders can be narrow, settlements can include no admission, and a docket screenshot can lose meaning when dates, parties, jurisdiction, and document type are missing.
Dockets and filings
- Claims about lawsuits, charges, complaints, motions, orders, judgments, appeals, or docket updates.
- Filing screenshots where court, case number, party name, and filing date need to stay attached.
- Claims that treat an allegation, motion, or procedural step as a final finding.
Rulings and settlements
- Headlines or posts summarizing what a judge ruled, dismissed, enjoined, certified, or allowed to proceed.
- Settlement claims where payment, admission, confidentiality, or scope may be overstated.
- Case-status claims where a later appeal, stay, amended order, or dismissal changes the summary.
Quotes and legal references
- Quoted excerpts from filings, hearings, subpoenas, contracts, statutes, regulations, or agency actions.
- Social posts that cite a statute, charge, sanction, penalty, or court rule without linking to the source.
- AI-generated legal summaries that sound precise but may cite the wrong case, date, court, or holding.
What the check should surface before you rely on it.
The goal is not to decide the law, certify a record, or give legal advice. The goal is to slow the trust decision long enough to inspect legal source trails, docket context, document dates, allegation status, ruling scope, quotation context, jurisdiction clues, independent corroboration, caveats, and cautious cite/share language.
Source and docket trails
- Links tied to the exact court page, docket entry, filing, order, transcript, statute, regulation, agency page, or article claim.
- Case name, court, jurisdiction, docket number, filing date, document type, party attribution, and procedural posture when visible.
- Caveats when the claim relies on screenshots, paywalled dockets, summaries, secondary coverage, or missing official records.
Claim status and scope
- Whether the language is an allegation, argument, order, holding, settlement statement, appeal update, or reporter summary.
- Whether a ruling is narrow, preliminary, later changed, or limited to one party, jurisdiction, or procedural question.
- Where attorney, court clerk, regulator, official-docket, or subject-matter review still matters.
Cautious cite/share language
- Cite the official record or reliable coverage when it supports the exact wording and posture.
- Add caveats for allegations, pending cases, partial screenshots, sealed material, procedural steps, and summaries.
- Avoid resharing when the source trail cannot support the legal or court claim.
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Install, then check one legal or court claim.
Open the download page, install the Chrome extension, and run a first-step check on one docket reference, lawsuit summary, complaint allegation, ruling claim, settlement claim, quoted filing excerpt, statute claim, or court-record screenshot before citing, publishing, advising, or resharing it.