Working with the contact form

The CourtListener.com and Free.law contact forms support pre-populating the issue type dropdown via the issue_type query parameter. This is useful when linking to the contact form from other pages where you already know what kind of issue the user has.

In general, prefer sending people to the free.law contact form unless it's a CL-specific issue. We want to reinforce the organization behind the work whenever we get a chance.

Usage

Just do:

/contact/?issue_type=

For example, to link to the contact form with "Case Removal Request" pre-selected:

/contact/?issue_type=removal

Valid Values

Free.law

Value	Display Label	What's Shown
`support`	General Support	A form
`partnerships`	Partnership Inquiry	A form
`api`	Data or API Help	Redirect to CL so we can get their account info
`data_quality`	Report Data Quality Problem	Redirect to CL
`recap`	RECAP Extension Bug	A form
`removal`	Case Removal Request	Redirect to CL so we can reinforce that connection
`memberships`	Memberships or Donations	Redirect to CL so we can get their account info
`volunteering`	Volunteering	Redirect to the volunteer form

CourtListener

Value	Display Label
`support`	General Support
`partnerships`	Partnership Inquiry
`api`	Data or API Help
`data_quality`	Report Data Quality Problem
`recap`	RECAP Extension Bug
`removal`	Case Removal Request
`memberships`	Memberships or Donations
`volunteering`	Volunteering

Invalid values are silently ignored and the dropdown defaults to "Select a topic".

Other Fields

Name and Email are automatically filled for logged-in users. They cannot be set via query
parameters.
Subject and Message cannot be pre-populated.