French Administrative Case Law (Conseil d'État, CAA)

What does French Administrative Case Law do?

It searches the decisions of the French administrative courts in the official Légifrance CETAT base: Conseil d'État, cours administratives d'appel (CAA) and tribunaux administratifs. About 570,000 decisions on urban planning, public procurement, civil service, tax, immigration, environment, local authorities, public liability...

For each decision you get: court, formation, case number, date, publication level (Lebon A/B/C), the official summaries (abstracts) and keywords, the Légifrance link and, optionally, the full text.

• Full-text search in French with filters: court type, date range, sort by relevance or most recent first
• Clean JSON, ready for spreadsheets, RAG pipelines and AI agents
• No PISTE account, no OAuth, no API key

Who is it for?

• Public law firms and in-house counsel (local authorities, public companies, developers)
• Public procurement teams: case law on penalties, exclusions, award criteria
• Real estate and urban planning professionals: building permit litigation
• Legal tech and AI builders: French public law corpus for RAG and agents

Pairs with French Case Law Search (judicial courts: Cour de cassation, appeal courts) for complete coverage of French case law.

Input example

{
  "query": "permis de construire recours voisin",
  "courts": ["conseil_etat"],
  "decidedAfter": "2023-01-01",
  "sortBy": "date",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "includeFullText": true
}

Output example

{
  "court": "Conseil d'État",
  "courtType": "CONSEIL_ETAT",
  "caseNumber": "505473",
  "date": "2026-07-07",
  "publication": "B",
  "summaries": ["54-06-03 Le juge ne peut rejeter comme manifestement irrecevable..."],
  "legifranceUrl": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/ceta/id/CETATEXT..."
}

Pricing

• $0.003 per decision
• +$0.007 per decision with full text (optional)

Data source and reuse

Official CETAT database of the DILA, published on Légifrance and accessed through the PISTE government API under the Licence Ouverte 2.0. Names of judges, rapporteurs and lawyers are deliberately not returned: French law forbids using the identity of magistrates to evaluate, compare or predict their professional practices. Results are informational, not legal advice.

En français

Recherchez la jurisprudence administrative (Conseil d'État, CAA, tribunaux administratifs) dans la base officielle CETAT de Légifrance : abstracts officiels, niveau de publication au Lebon, texte intégral. Sans compte PISTE.