Find every URL before you send anything
Search your full name in quotes alongside the case number or the district, and write down the exact URL of every hit. Each request below covers the URLs you list and nothing else, so if you get a page pulled at one site, the others are still sitting exactly where they were.
Don't start at the court. PACER has no removal, suppression or opt-out process to invoke, so anything you send there moves nothing. The work is at the companies below, plus Google.
Justia: one form, no documents
Go to Justia's support form and check the box for blocking a Justia link from search engines. Paste the exact URLs into the field that asks for the links you want blocked, then add anything else in the second comments box, which is also required. Your name and email are required too, but it takes no documents, no ID, and no fee.
What you get is a search-engine block. Justia won't fully remove a docket without a court order sealing the record or designating it for removal from the public record. It publishes no timeline for the block, either.
Then check the work yourself. A confirmation email isn't the finish line. Search the same name and case number again at 30 and 60 days, and if the page is still coming up, send the form again with the URL that's still ranking.
CourtListener may have blocked it already
Check before you write. Search your name on CourtListener first. If nothing of yours comes up there, you have nothing to send. If something does, note whether what ranks is the docket page or a document page inside it.
Send the docket page. A RECAP document page is already noindexed, so a request on one buys you nothing. The docket page is the surface they actually block. Use the removal option on CourtListener's contact page and list the specific URLs, and fill it in by hand in a browser, since the form sits behind a bot check.
Their policy is blunt about the rest. They won't delete a public document without a court order. They publish no turnaround, and they warn that the search engines may not drop your case from their results for many months, if at all.
UniCourt takes about 60 days, and you have to file it yourself
The redaction request is free at every stage, appeal included, and UniCourt's policy says so in those words. Only a party to the record, a legal guardian or fiduciary, or an attorney representing a party can file it. A reputation firm submitting it for you gets a denial. It's you or your attorney of record. Nobody else.
The form wants your name, mailing address, an email and a phone number with both confirmed, and your country and state of residence. It also wants the exact UniCourt URL, your relationship to the record, a bar number and bar state if you're claiming attorney status, the reason you're asking, and the court order or police report that reason requires. Verify the confirmation email inside 14 days or the request dies quietly.
UniCourt targets a decision in 30 days and says de-indexing takes roughly 30 more, so budget about 60 days. If you're denied, you have 30 days from the notice to appeal, but the appeal only gets considered with substantive documentation you hadn't already sent.
PacerMonitor and DocketBird
PacerMonitor is the hard one. Its privacy policy has no removal, opt-out or deletion process of any kind. The only address published anywhere in it is support@pacermonitor.com. Send your URLs there, but there's no procedure, no standard and no timeline behind it, so don't build your plan around a reply.
DocketBird's removal pages are gone. Checked September 8, 2026: the request-removal URL that other guides still send you to now redirects to the homepage, and the paid removal-service page returns a missing page. Send your URLs to the address on its contact page instead. Its privacy policy also reserves the right to post a notice that case materials are hidden because someone asked, so decide whether you want that marker before you write.
The two things Google will act on
Your street address is on the petition. That address comes out of Google's results even though the bankruptcy doesn't. The route is personal information removal, which also covers your phone, email, government ID numbers and bank and card numbers, and you file it on every republisher URL that shows the address.
The second lever is exploitative removal practices, and all three conditions have to hold: you're the subject of the content, the site isn't a business review site, and the site requires payment to take the content down. So never pay a court-record site to remove a docket. A fee demand is exactly what gets the links pulled for free.
Submit the exact URLs, one per line, on Google's removal form, with screenshots and your affirmation that you're the subject. Google publishes no decision time for either request. File them and get on with the rest of the list. Don't wait on a date.
What none of this changes, and when to check again
Pulling a copy out of Google doesn't seal or expunge the court's own record. The case stays public. Anyone who opens an account can still search it by name through the PACER Case Locator, so a lender, an employer's screening vendor or a reporter pulling PACER directly still finds it. If the goal is that nobody can learn you filed, no procedure and no service delivers that.
Don't spend a request on state privacy law. Court-record data is publicly available information, so it's exempt from the CCPA's right to delete. The request burns 45 days and comes back denied, and the credit-reporting clock runs separately, which nothing on this page moves.
Then re-check. Look at every address you filed on at 60, 90 and 180 days. Search your name again for URLs that weren't there the first time, and send a fresh request on each new one. UniCourt's process is per-URL.