# How to find out who all (if anyone) is suing someone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 14, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-out-who-all-if-anyone-is-suing-someone/641010 "2012-11-14T18:50:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-out-who-all-if-anyone-is-suing-someone/641010/1 "2012-11-14T18:50:46Z")
Suppose I want to find out whether anyone is suing Acme, (and if someone is, who it is). Is there a way to find out something like this online? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-out-who-all-if-anyone-is-suing-someone/641010/2 "2012-11-14T18:53:20Z")
The Federal courts have a database called PACER that you can search by a party’s name. Same courts require much more work. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-out-who-all-if-anyone-is-suing-someone/641010/3 "2012-11-15T00:48:26Z")
As \*\*Procrustus \*\*alluded, once you start asking about state courts it becomes an issue of how aggressively your state has been pushing to get court records online. In my state, based on some personal litigation, there seems to be a delay of at least several months. However that was when it was picked up by my identity protection service and I’m assuming that they scan those databases on a fairly regular basis.