About Hall Approved

Hall Approved is a free legal archive of 3.6 million court opinions, built by Aaron Hall, a Minnesota attorney, to make American case law accessible to everyone.

Court opinions are public records. They are written by government employees, paid for with tax dollars, and form the law that governs every person in the country. Yet for decades, the only practical way to read them was through commercial databases charging hundreds of dollars a month.

Hall Approved exists to fix that.

What This Site Is

Hall Approved is a free, permanent archive of American court opinions. It currently contains more than 3.6 million opinions from 69 courts spanning 1754 to 2025, including every state supreme court, every federal circuit court of appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Every opinion loads instantly, cites properly, and is readable on any device.

There is no paywall. There is no login.

Why I Built It

I’m Aaron Hall, a practicing attorney in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For years, free legal research meant navigating ad-heavy sites with incomplete coverage, or hoping Google Scholar happened to index the case you needed. When CaseText — the best free alternative — was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023 and moved behind a paywall, the gap became a chasm.

Lawyers need reliable, citable sources. Law students need access to the full text of opinions, not just headnotes. Journalists investigating a story need to read the actual ruling. Pro se litigants — people representing themselves in court — deserve the same access to the law that BigLaw firms take for granted.

So I built Hall Approved.

How It Works

All opinion data is sourced from CourtListener, the free legal database created and maintained by the Free Law Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. CourtListener aggregates case law from court websites, PACER, and digitized historical reporters. Hall Approved transforms that data into a fast, readable, browsable archive with proper citations, cross-linked opinions, and structured metadata for search engines and AI tools.

What “Hall Approved” Means

The name is simple: this is a case law archive built and maintained by Aaron Hall, Attorney. Every opinion is sourced from official court records through the Free Law Project, organized for the way lawyers actually read and cite cases. No ads, no paywall, no gatekeeping — just the law, as the courts wrote it.

Contact

For questions, corrections, or suggestions, contact Aaron Hall.