Start with the sites, not with Google
Google doesn't hold the page, so asking Google first wastes the month. The page lives on a legal aggregator and the removal happens there, which is why our court records off Google guide starts at the sites carrying the case. Once a page is gone at source, the search result follows. On its own.
Several of these are free and narrow. Trellis will redact your name from a public docket at no cost and without a court order, and CourtListener will block a page from search engines on one contact-form request. UniCourt's redaction request is free, but it weighs four factors before it moves. Each has its own guide: Trellis, CourtListener, UniCourt.
What a civil case does not get you
In most situations there's no expungement for a civil docket. Criminal records have a statutory path in many states. Civil filings generally don't. So the certified order that unlocks a criminal removal usually has no equivalent here, and you're left with each site's own discretion, and its own policy.
Sealing is the exception worth asking your attorney about. When a court seals a file, the aggregators have a much stronger reason to act. A sealing order is the single most useful document you can hand this process. Ask.
Anything that stays gets outranked
Some pages won't move, and that's a normal outcome, not a failure. A published opinion isn't coming down, and neither is real news coverage of the case, so the work becomes building enough accurate, current material that the docket isn't what a search for your name returns first.
That's the shape most of these engagements take. Nine negative page-one results tied to a federal case took six months to clear in our federal case work. Aggregators came down where they were eligible. Real journalism got outranked rather than touched. Nothing was faked.
The order to work in
Get whatever disposition paperwork exists, work the aggregators one at a time, then deal with the search result. Our court record removal is $199 and covers every legal aggregator we can reach, with twelve months of re-submission, because these sites repost and a single filing isn't a result.
If the docket is only part of the problem, the whole first two pages as one job is $2,488, one time. A bigger situation gets quoted on its own. Before any work starts.