GLO Law
Free U.S. legal research: court opinions, statutes, state regulations and corrections policies.
What it does
GLO Law is an MCP server, a connector that lets an AI assistant use it as a tool. It is hosted: an assistant connects to it over the internet, nothing to install.
No capability identified yet from its description.
Facts come from the Official MCP Registry, as declared by the publisher. Capabilities are matched automatically (low confidence). None of this is a test of the tool.
At a glance
How to connect
As declared in the Official MCP Registry · hosted endpoint tested by Electra Index 1d ago (live check)Hosted endpoint
https://mcp.glolaw.org/mcpstreamable-http
In Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http glo-law https://mcp.glolaw.org/mcp
MCP settings (Claude Desktop, Cursor and other MCP clients)
{
"mcpServers": {
"glo-law": {
"url": "https://mcp.glolaw.org/mcp"
}
}
}Live check
Electra Index connected to the hosted endpoint 1d agoONLINE GLO Law answered an MCP connection on 06 Nov 2026 and introduced itself as glolaw-casesearch 0.1.0+defs.b8e8f42810d6 (MCP protocol 2025-06-18).
17 tools offered to AI assistants
search· Case-name metadata search over the local CourtListener mirror. Punctuation-insensitive trigram match on the case name ("Brown v board of education" matches "Brown v. Board of Education"). Returns cluster rows: id, case_name, case_name_shortfts· Keyword full-text search (BM25) over opinion body text in the local mirror. Keyword, not concept: matches the exact words given (case-insensitive) with no stemming ("petition" does not match "petitions"); all words must appear; "double quotsemantic_search· Semantic (vector) search over embedded opinion chunks: finds cases by concept or plain-language description when there is no fixed term of art. Returns one row per case: opinion_id, cluster_id, metadata, matched_chunk, distance, similarity,similar· Given one opinion id, returns other opinions whose wording overlaps it, ranked by keyword match (BM25 more-like-this). Keyword overlap only: not a finding that the neighbors address the same issue, reach the same result or remain good law,citation· Resolves a reporter citation "<volume> <reporter> <page>" (e.g. 347 U.S. 483) to the matching case cluster(s) in the local mirror, optionally with member opinions and parallel citations. A 404 means the citation is not in this mirror, not tcluster· Full case (cluster) detail by cluster id: cluster metadata, member opinions and parallel citations. Metadata only; the opinion tool returns full text. Every response carries a "note" stating that response’s source and coverage limits.opinion· Full text of one opinion by opinion id, plus metadata. The text is the best stored text extracted from the mirror (HTML stripped; body_source names the extraction source and fallback_used flags a lower-precedence one), bounded to 200k characitations· Given one opinion id, lists the cases it cites (direction=authorities) or the cases that cite it (direction=cited_by). Textual reference only: an edge means one opinion’s text names the other; it is not treatment, agreement, validity or "goparentheticals· Given one opinion id, returns the one-line parentheticals later courts wrote about that case, verbatim. A parenthetical is the later court’s own characterisation: not a holding of the described case, not a summary written by this service, atreatment· Later courts, in their own words, reporting that one case was overruled, abrogated, superseded, reversed or vacated. Takes a cluster id (the case-record id), not an opinion id. Every row carries the citing court’s own sentence, cut from itsbrief_check· Checks the case citations in a document the user supplies (a draft filing, brief or motion) against this collection and court-reported negative history, showing which cited cases to read before filing. Nothing is ever cleared: there is no pstatute· Exact lookup of one statute section or one regulation section by citation, in a point-in-time snapshot of published law. Returns the text verbatim with jurisdiction, corpus, citation, heading, path, source_url, as_of, act_status, last_amend
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statute_search· Keyword (BM25) search over the body text of statute sections and, in the default source, Kansas administrative regulations, in the same snapshot as the statute tool; source=<code> searches one regulation source alone. Without jurisdiction=,statute_citing· Lists the opinions whose text cites one U.S. Code section. Federal only: no state statute-citation links exist, and a state citation returns a visible error. An entry means the opinion’s text names the section; it does not say how the courtcorrections_policy· Internal policies of a state department of corrections, or of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (state="bop", federal), as the department posts them, by number or by keyword search (query; no stemming). Not law: not statutes, regulations or coudeadline· Counts a deadline from a date the user gives, under a rule whose text is in GLO’s mirror, and returns every counting step beside that text. Counted: K.S.A. 60-206 (Kansas civil procedure; a period in days the user supplies from the rule orsources· Returns GLO’s coverage statements as text, so each tool’s and each source’s limits can be read on request. With a tool name alone: that tool’s full statement of coverage, measured limits and field meanings ("server" gives the full server ov
What "online" means: the server answered an MCP connection at the time of the check. It is not a guarantee of security, quality or continuous uptime. How we test: we open an MCP session and ask for the tool list, as an AI assistant would. We never run a tool and never send a key. Checked every few days. Method
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Facts & evidence
Each fact shows where it was seen and when.| Fact | Value | Evidence | Source | Last confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 1.0.1 | DECLARED | SRC-001 Official MCP Registry | 4d ago |
| Hosted endpoint | https://mcp.glolaw.org/mcp | DECLARED | SRC-001 Official MCP Registry | 4d ago |
| Local install (package) | no | DECLARED | SRC-001 Official MCP Registry | 4d ago |
| Remote access (hosted) | yes | DECLARED | SRC-001 Official MCP Registry | 4d ago |
| Website | https://glolaw.org/case-search/connect | DECLARED | SRC-001 Official MCP Registry | 4d ago |
| Registry status | active | DECLARED | SRC-001 Official MCP Registry | 4d ago |
| MCP server | yes | DECLARED | SRC-001 Official MCP Registry | 4d ago |
Change history
- VERSION03 Nov 20261.0.0 → 1.0.1
- NEW03 Nov 2026first seen in the index
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How do I connect GLO Law?
Use the hosted endpoint https://mcp.glolaw.org/mcp in your assistant's MCP settings. The exact settings are in "How to connect" above, as declared in the Official MCP Registry.
What tools does GLO Law offer?
When Electra Index connected on 06 Nov 2026, it listed 17 tools: search, fts, semantic_search, similar, citation, cluster, opinion, citations and more. The full list is in "Live check" above.
Is GLO Law online?
Yes. Its hosted endpoint answered an MCP connection from Electra Index 1d ago.