It’s that time again: our monthly announcement that we’ve expanded the features of our Title IX Lawsuits Database.* This month’s implementation comes by request from several attorneys. The lawsuits in our database can now be searched and sorted by the causes of action listed in their respective complaints (including amended complaints), as well as whether a request was made for injunctive relief, writs of mandate, Article 78, and so forth.

So let’s say you want to search just for lawsuits where at minimum Title IX and disability claims are listed as causes of action. As the picture above shows, that’s now possible. Same thing with all the other causes of action, e.g. due process, breach of contract, promissory estoppel, tortious interference, and so forth.

For ease of searching we’ve merged a few claims; for example, defamation and defamation per se are both simply listed as defamation. Despite this, there are currently 60+ causes of action that all the lawsuits can be searched or sorted by. As a minor but overdue data point, we also added Nature of Suit codes for all federal lawsuits. Lawsuits can now be searched and sorted by that data as well. All lawsuit “Detail” pages now feature the two new data fields.

Lastly, in addition to the two new data points (Claims + Nature of Suit), we added nine data point query options to the main lawsuits search engine. These data points were previously only found in other parts of the database. This means all lawsuits can now be searched by thirty-two data points, up from twenty-one available in the month prior. You can see a screenshot of the search engine at the top of this post.

On a side note, we loaded 1,225 legal files to the database this month – the most files in a month so far (although not the most pages in a month, which occurred in May at ~16,000 pages).

*This is the eighth implementation of the 10-month series of expansions we promised on the 11/29/2018 relaunch. As a recap, here is a timeline of our previous expansions:

• June 2019 – Clery Act data
• May 2019 – oral arguments
• April 2019 – “save” feature for lawsuits & research notes implemented
• March 2019 – expansion of judge records, various user interface updates
• February 2019 – expansion of scope of lawsuits to include dating violence, stalking, exploitation, harassment, etc.
• January 2019 – expansion of court system records
• December 2018 – implementation of a changelog, database load speeds halved