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I am unable to find an API that will return the district_court OCD division for an address. I have tried the Google Civic Info API (specifically https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/civicinfo/v2/civicinfo.representatives.representativeInfoByAddress) and look through the Open States API.

I'm trying to do this for North Carolina addresses. Here is the map of current districts: http://www.nccourts.org/Courts/Trial/District/Documents/DistrictCourtmap15.pdf

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  • running the address for Jennette's Pier, google civic api returns " "ocd-division/country:us/state:nc/cd:3": { "name": "North Carolina's 3rd congressional district"," you can't use that to determine the court? although...looking at your map i see 3a and 3b, but no 3 in nc.
    – albert
    Sep 28, 2016 at 16:38
  • address for Jennette's Pier: 7223 S Virginia Dare Trail, Nags Head, NC 27959
    – albert
    Sep 28, 2016 at 16:40
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    The congressional districts are different from the judicial districts in NC.
    – isabisa
    Sep 28, 2016 at 16:46
  • ha. my bad for the confusion
    – albert
    Sep 28, 2016 at 19:42

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on the fly solution:
This map of North Carolina Trial Courts provides links to county pages that have the judicial district number. I would write a quick script to crawl that and get jd number linked to a county name. Then in the Google Civic API, after making a call, you can pull out the county name of said call response, and match to that.

EDIT:
Here's a gist with the JSON and the Python script I cobbled together. Note: I had to edit JSON manually to get this exact structure, but the script does output valid JSON.
Also uploaded Congressional District by County, and Congressional District by Place JSON files. https://gist.github.com/jalbertbowden/b2323725ad362412ba5cd23a01d46cdd

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    Interesting solution! I have no idea how to write a script to crawl pages though.
    – isabisa
    Sep 28, 2016 at 20:17

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