How to Use This Archive

The sections

Court filings: 11,966 indexed document pages, listed alphabetically by title, 250 to a page across 48 directory pages. Despite the name, this section also holds agency and congressional records that were converted the same way: SBA forms and FAQs, inspector-general reports, CRS reports, Federal Reserve periodic reports, Select Subcommittee letters, and bill texts.
Source documents: 4,312 indexed government and program records, listed the same way across 18 pages. Most carry an issuer, a document type, and a date; their full text is being converted.
Statutes: 19 statute references, each a citation page for a bill or public law.
Data: 23 derived tables you can download as CSV and 8 federal source releases, every file listed with a checksum.
Guides: one page per relief program, plus this one.

Search

Search covers the title and a short snippet of every indexed page (16,612 pages as of 2026-09-12); it does not search the full text of documents. Type a term and the results group by section; the filter buttons narrow to one or more sections (Court filings, Source documents, Statutes, Data, Case dockets, Documents). The query goes into the address, so a search can be linked or bookmarked: /search/?q=paycheck%20protection. For a filing whose title never names the program, search by the case name, the lender, or the defendant instead.

What a court-filing page shows

The record class ("Court filing") and the title. A verbatim title keeps the court's docket text, then a dash, the case caption, and the docket number; a composed title is assembled from the recorded fields. The methodology page says how to tell them apart.
A one-line lede: the case, the filing date, the court, and how many filings from the case are in the archive.
Record facts: court, filed date, and source. A filing whose date could not be established has no filed date, and sits under an "undated" address in its case.
A utility line. "Read full text" jumps to the extracted text below; "View original PDF" opens the file as retrieved and states its size in bytes. Where the archive has no usable text, the line reads "Full text unavailable"; where it has no original, "Original unavailable". The original controls for exact wording, pagination, signatures, and exhibits.
The full text, as extracted from the document's text layer or from OCR. OCR text can carry recognition errors and flattened tables.
"More filings in this case", listed by filing date, and links to the neighboring filings.

What a source-document page shows

The title; the issuer, document type, and document date; a one-line description built from the title and type; and the same utility line. Many source-document pages still read "Full text unavailable" and "Original unavailable": the record is catalogued but not yet converted.

What a statute page shows

The bill or public law as a citation reference, with its name and citation. Statute pages do not yet carry the text of the law; the bill texts the archive has converted sit in the court-filings section under the bill number, for example H.R. 7334.

What a data page shows

Each derived table has a page with its row and column counts, source vintage, SHA-256 checksum, a "What it is" and "How it was built" description, a column table, a "Before you quote a row" list, and a suggested citation. Each source collection has a page listing every file with its size, row count, and checksum, and a link to the official copy where the agency still hosts it. The release catalog and SHA256SUMS cover the whole release.

Indexed and held

Every converted document gets a page, but not every page is indexed. As of September 12, 2026, the court-filings section held 26,901 document pages, of which 12,204 are indexed. An unindexed page carries a tag asking search engines not to index it and is left out of the directories, the sitemaps, and site search. Pages are left unindexed when they duplicate another conversion of the same document, when their title or date metadata is uncertain, or when the page is a case hub that only lists its filings. An unindexed page still loads at its address if you have the link; it is waiting for review.

Citing a page

Cite the document, then the archive: document title, issuer or court, date and date type, "archived at Pandemic Darlings," the page URL, and the date you retrieved it. Data pages carry a suggested citation that names the source vintage; the numbers depend on it. The methodology page has the full form.

Reporting an error

The corrections page says what to send: the page URL, the passage, and the document that shows it is wrong.