Guide How to remove your record from Justia

You searched your name and a Justia page carrying your case came back. Justia runs a free request that blocks the page from search engines, it's four fields long, and it needs no ID, no case number and no lawyer. It won't delete the page, and nothing you send Justia touches the court's own file. Start by collecting the addresses, because the form asks for links and nothing else.

What you actually get

Justia will block the page from search engines. It won't delete it. Their policy says so in writing. The page keeps its address and stays live, so anyone holding the link still reaches it, and what you're asking for is that it should stop coming up on your name.

What you have to send

Four things, and that's the whole ask: the exact Justia URLs you want blocked, a comment, your name, and your email. No government ID, no case number, no court order, and no fee. Justia asks for links, so give it links. Paste the full addresses, one per line, instead of describing the case.

What gets you refused

Asking Justia to delete it when you don't hold a court order. Justia won't fully remove a court record that isn't under seal, and a CCPA or state privacy deletion demand is a guaranteed no on a court record. Ask for the search engine block instead. That's the request they'll consider.

Get the exact URLs first

Search your full name in quotes, then your name plus the case caption, and copy every Justia address that comes back. You're about to paste these into a form, so copy the whole link rather than writing down a case number.

Read your own URL before you send it. Justia's block list is a public file, so if your full name sits inside the address, decide whether you want that trade before you file.

While you're looking, write down who else holds the first page of results. If CourtListener, UniCourt or the court's own portal outranks Justia on your name, blocking Justia alone moves nothing anyone will notice.

Send the request at support.justia.com

Go to support.justia.com and pick the category for blocking a Justia link from search engines. It names court dockets, judicial opinions, trademarks and patents, so you'll know you've got the right one. You get a field for the links you want blocked, a Comments box that's required, your name, your email, and a Send Request button.

Paste every URL you collected, one per line. In the Comments box, say the pages carry your name and you're asking for the search engine block. Then send it. There's no fee and no paid expedite.

Expect silence, and don't resend

Nobody can give you a date. Justia publishes no response time for the form, and it says in writing that it can't control how long the links take to come out of the search engines after the block goes on.

Justia's own language is that reasonable accommodation will be made upon written request, which isn't a promise. Silence is a normal outcome here, and it isn't a cue to send the request again.

Check the block yourself

Open the robots.txt file for the subdomain your own page sits on and look for a line matching your URL. A docket means dockets.justia.com/robots.txt; an opinion, a trademark or a patent means that subdomain's own file, and the docket file will never carry it. Checked on September 8, 2026, the docket file listed no blocked URLs at all, and an empty file isn't proof your own request failed.

Then search your name again in a few weeks, and again in a few months. A result still sitting there isn't proof you were ignored, and a block that went on once can come off later, so re-check yours instead of assuming it held.

If it doesn't move, the lever is at the courthouse

Justia points you there itself: if you want the information deleted, contact the court directly, or hire an attorney to petition the court to seal it. That's the only route that produces an actual deletion, and the work happens at the courthouse.

An expungement order doesn't automatically bind Justia. Send it to them once you have one, and don't treat the page as gone until you've looked at it yourself.

If the court won't seal it, there's no legal lever left to pull. No US law gets a truthful public court record taken down, so the work shifts to what people find above it.

What this never does

Nothing you send Justia seals your case or expunges it. The clerk's file stays exactly as it is, and every other site that already copied the record keeps its copy. You're moving one search result, and only that one.

Don't send Justia an FCRA dispute. That letter belongs at a background check company selling a report with your case in it.

When Justia isn't the only site carrying it

Send the Justia request yourself, it's free and it's four fields. The cost is everything after it: re-checking whether the block held, then running the same errand at CourtListener and UniCourt. Court Record Removal is $199, one time, and we take that whole list off your desk.

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Written by Drew Chapin, who ran all of this on his own name first.