Federal bankruptcy case index for the Western District of Missouri and the District of Kansas. Every case links to the full docket on CourtListener. Free public-record access.
Scope: The Open Bankruptcy Project indexes federal bankruptcy cases in two districts where it conducts direct case research: the Western District of Missouri and the District of Kansas. Every entry below links to CourtListener for the full docket and filings — no PACER fee, no paywall, no login required.
Each court below has its own paginated case index. Click through to browse cases by filing date, or use your browser's find function to locate a specific case number.
Home court for OBP’s direct casework, including Victory Cleaning Systems (24-40010-can11). Multiple Rule 9037 audit subjects appear in this district.
Browse W.D. Mo. cases →Primary jurisdiction for several attorneys and firms in OBP’s national Rule 9037 audit. Multiple bar complaints referencing D. Kan. cases are currently pending.
Browse D. Kan. cases →Every case indexed by the Open Bankruptcy Project links directly to the full docket on CourtListener’s RECAP Archive. There is no fee, no login, and no paywall. Case records that have been contributed to RECAP are permanently free for anyone to read.
RECAP is a free public archive of federal court documents, operated by the Free Law Project. When users install the RECAP browser extension and view PACER documents, those documents are automatically donated to the archive and made free for anyone to access.
The Open Bankruptcy Project currently indexes federal bankruptcy cases in two districts: the Western District of Missouri (4,560 cases) and the District of Kansas (101,200 cases). These are the two federal districts where OBP conducts direct case research.
This site hosts only case metadata — case numbers, captions, chapter, and filing dates — with links to the full docket on CourtListener. Docket PDFs and filing text are not reproduced on openbankruptcyproject.org. All primary-source documents are on CourtListener.
PACER, the federal judiciary’s electronic docket system, charges $0.10 per page to access public records. In 2024 the system collected over $145 million in fees from the public. Organizations like the Free Law Project and the Open Bankruptcy Project build free alternatives by contributing documents to the RECAP Archive, where they remain permanently free. Learn more about RECAP contributions →
Data source: Case metadata on this site comes from CourtListener, operated by the Free Law Project. Metadata is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this derived index is published under the same license. To report an error or request correction, email info@openbankruptcyproject.org.