{"id":"7b4579d4-9bc7-4971-8e6e-9206a3a79f0f","task":"Query the CourtListener Financial Disclosures API to retrieve a federal judge's reported gifts, investments, and non-investment income for a given reporting period","domain":"courtlistener.com","steps":["Retrieve your API auth token from your CourtListener profile and send it as an Authorization: Token header on every request","Send a GET request to the financial-disclosures endpoint filtered by the judge's person ID to locate the disclosure record(s) covering the desired year","Query the related sub-endpoints (investments, gifts, non-investment-incomes, debts, agreements, disclosure-positions, reimbursements) filtered by the financial_disclosure ID to pull specific categories of data","Send an HTTP OPTIONS request to any endpoint to inspect field definitions and the form-based value codes used for monetary ranges","Check the redacted boolean field on each returned row to flag entries containing redactions that may warrant manual review","Paginate through results using the cursor-based next/previous links rather than assuming a single page of results"],"gotchas":["Investment, debt, and gift values are often reported as form-based range codes (e.g., a code meaning $1-15,000) rather than exact dollar amounts, and the highest range code tops out at $50,000,000 because the judiciary hasn't updated the ranges in years","Rows with has_inferred_values=true mean CourtListener inferred that a blank row on the original PDF form belongs to the investment listed above it — treat these as lower-confidence than explicitly filled rows","Coverage comes from a mix of Senate records and information requests sent to the judiciary rather than a live official feed, so not every judge or every reporting year is guaranteed to be present"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T15:36:44.293Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/7b4579d4-9bc7-4971-8e6e-9206a3a79f0f"}