SEC Litigation Releases — Enforcement Tracker

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Real-time scraper for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's litigation releases — the official announcements of civil enforcement actions, complaints, consent judgments, and final judgments filed by the SEC against companies and individuals.

Built for equity research analysts, compliance and AML teams, M&A and PR firms, and legal-tech / regulatory monitoring platforms who need clean, structured access to SEC enforcement activity without hand-scraping the SEC website.

Data covers Securities and Exchange Commission v. … actions across all SEC regional offices, including securities fraud cases, insider trading charges, investment-adviser violations, Ponzi-scheme prosecutions, FCPA cases, market-manipulation actions, and accounting-fraud cases.

📊 Sample Output

👁 SEC Litigation Releases — enforcement actions, defendants, charges, dates from sec.gov. Equity research, compliance monitoring, M&A diligence, securities litigation research.

What it does

• Crawls the SEC litigation-releases index at sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases
• Filters by year range (SEC publishes releases from ~1995 onwards)
• Optional case-insensitive keyword filter on title + summary
• For each release, fetches the full release page and extracts: release number, date, case caption, descriptive title, defendant list, body excerpt, and the linked complaint / judgment PDF

The actor sends the SEC-required User-Agent on every request and self-throttles below the SEC's published 10 req/sec rate limit.

Use cases

• Compliance & AML monitoring — daily / weekly sweep of new SEC enforcement actions, joined against your customer or counter-party list to flag named defendants in new complaints, settlements, or final judgments.
• Equity research & event-driven trading — track SEC charges against public companies and their executives, feed into news-event databases for backtesting or alpha generation.
• PR firms & M&A bankers — early signal on reputational events for prospective targets and clients; identify companies under active SEC enforcement before they hit mainstream press.
• Legal-tech & regulatory platforms — enrich case databases with structured SEC enforcement metadata and the URLs of underlying complaints and judgments.

Input

Output schema

Each dataset item:

{
"release_number":"LR-26557",
"date_published":"2026-05-21",
"title":"SEC Obtains Final Consent Judgment as to former Alabama Investment Adviser",
"defendants":["Daughtry"],
"summary_excerpt":"On May 20, 2026, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama entered a final consent judgment against James Blake Daughtry...",
"action_type":"final-judgment",
"complaint_url":"https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/litreleases/2026/judg26557.pdf",
"source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26557",
"scraped_at":"2026-05-28T12:00:00Z"
}

Field notes

• release_number — SEC litigation release identifier (LR-NNNNN).
• date_published — ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) from the SEC publish-date field.
• title — descriptive title of the action.
• defendants — parsed from the case caption (SEC v. …); falls back to the page heading.
• summary_excerpt — first 500 characters of the release body.
• action_type — heuristic label derived from the title: complaint, settlement, final-judgment, or other.
• complaint_url — first linked complaint / judgment PDF (the underlying court filing).
• source_url — canonical SEC URL for the release (always populated).
• scraped_at — UTC ISO timestamp of the scrape.

Compliance / source-risk

• Data source: public SEC website. SEC explicitly invites programmatic access provided requests include a contact User-Agent.
• This actor sends User-Agent: NexGenData hello@nexgendata.com on every request and stays well under the SEC's published 10 req/sec ceiling.
• The actor scrapes only material the SEC publishes itself — no PII beyond what already appears in public legal filings.

Sample Output

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