Justia will de-index your court record from Google. It will not delete the page from its own site. That distinction matters, because for most people the problem is search visibility, not the existence of the page itself. If you have a sealing or expungement order, the process is straightforward. If you do not, your options narrow.
What Justia is
Justia has collected and published court data since 2003. It pulls from federal and state systems, cleans the data, and makes it searchable. Twenty-plus years of domain authority means Justia pages routinely outrank the original court docket in Google. That is the core problem. A routine case becomes the first thing someone sees when they search your name.
Justia sees itself as a public-interest legal resource. That self-image shapes every removal decision. Frame your request accordingly.
How to get a page de-indexed
First, search your name on Justia.com. Collect every URL that mentions you. People often appear on multiple pages: the case detail, the docket, opinion summaries. Write them all down.
Go to Justia's support page. Select the option to block a Justia link from search engines. The form covers court dockets, judicial opinions, trademarks, and patents. That routes you to the team that handles these requests.
Fill in the form with the exact URLs, your full legal name, and a plain explanation of how the page is affecting you. Skip the boilerplate. Justia responds to specific, real-world reasons. Attach your sealing or expungement order if you have one.
Wait two weeks. If you have not heard back, send a short follow-up. Do not submit duplicate requests. That slows the queue.
What they will and will not do
De-indexing is the standard outcome. The page stays on Justia's servers but drops from Google. For nearly everyone, that solves the problem.
Full deletion is rare. Published appellate opinions that set precedent are the hardest to remove. Justia treats those as part of the legal record. Routine civil matters, old misdemeanors, and dismissed cases come down more easily.
If they decline, you still have options. Escalate through a lawyer. File a Google removal request for the specific URL. Or shift to suppressing the page by building stronger content above it.
Justia is rarely the only place your record lives
If your case is on Justia, it is probably on other aggregators too: CourtListener, Trellis, UniCourt, PacerMonitor, DocketBird, and Casemine. Clearing Justia alone does nothing if the same record sits on five other sites. Our full court-record removal guide covers hitting all of them.
If the case was sealed or expunged, read what happens after expungement. The court order is step one. Getting aggregators to honor it is step two.
Why speed matters
The longer a Justia page stays indexed, the more other aggregators scrape it. Cases we clear in weeks are typically ones where someone acted within a few months of finding the listing. Cases that drag on are years old and copied across a dozen sites.
One detail people miss: Justia does not distinguish a dismissal from a conviction in how the page displays. A case you won and a case you lost look identical to someone skimming search results. That is why stating the outcome plainly in your de-indexing request helps.
If you have tried these steps and are stuck, or if you do not have the time, get in touch. We handle this every day.