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Court filings by program

4,326 court filings across 8 programs. A case can be listed under more than one program, so 1,231 of these court filings appear in two or more groups and the group counts add to 5,813.

Every court filing grouped by the relief program its case names most: PPP, COVID EIDL, pandemic unemployment insurance, RRF, SVOG, the Employee Retention Credit and the smaller programs, plus the pandemic-era cases that name no relief program at all. A case can appear under more than one program.

  • Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)3,160 court filings· 342 cases · Forgivable SBA-guaranteed loans made through banks and fintech platforms in 2020 and 2021; the largest program and the most prosecuted.
  • COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL)1,142 court filings· 137 cases · SBA disaster loans and advances made directly by the agency, April 2020 to 2022.
  • Pandemic unemployment insurance751 court filings· 55 cases · Federally funded pandemic unemployment benefits paid by the states (PUA, FPUC, PEUC), including the California EDD litigation.
  • Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF)70 court filings· 21 cases · Grants to restaurants and bars under the American Rescue Plan, 2021.
  • Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG)91 court filings· 21 cases · Grants to live-venue operators, museums and theaters, 2021.
  • Employee Retention Credit (ERC)21 court filings· 11 cases · The payroll tax credit for retained employees, claimed through the IRS.
  • Other relief programs132 court filings· 31 cases · Provider Relief Fund, Main Street Lending Program, Coronavirus Relief Fund and ARPA fiscal recovery money.
  • Other pandemic litigation446 court filings· 316 cases · Cases whose filings name no relief program: vaccine and mask mandates, closure orders, insurance, immigration and other pandemic-era disputes.
How the groups are built. A record is listed under a program when the filings of its case, taken together, name that program at least three times in their text and at least one-twentieth as often as the program they name most. Documents from the same court docket count as one case. The census is mechanical, runs over the full text of every page in the section, and is re-run with every build.
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