Methodology

Everything published here begins with a document: a docket entry, a filed pleading, a judgment, a state corporate registration, an insurance filing, a federal safety record, an agency inspection report, or another record created by a court or a government body in the ordinary course of its work.

Interviews and tips are used to find documents, not to substitute for them. A claim that cannot be tied to a record is not published, even when more than one person makes it.

Each document is read against its own source. Docket numbers, party names, dates and dollar figures are transcribed from the filing rather than from a summary of it, and a second record is sought for any fact that carries weight in a story.

Where records conflict, both are described and the conflict is named. Where a record is the only one available, the page says that too.

Home addresses, personal telephone numbers, dates of birth, financial account numbers and identifying details of minors are withheld even when a public filing contains them. Addresses are used to establish links between companies; they are described at the level needed to show the link and no further.

Nothing that identifies a source is published, and no material sent in confidence is quoted in a way that could identify who sent it.

Every factual assertion on an entity, person, case or document page carries a citation chip naming the court and docket number, the agency, or the filing office the record comes from. Where the record is available at an authoritative public source, the citation links there.

This site links to documents at their source; it does not host copies. When a source removes a document, the entry records that it was removed rather than replacing it with a copy of unknown provenance.

Corrections are made in place, dated, and described: the page states what was wrong, what it now says, and when it changed. Corrections are not made silently and pages are not deleted to resolve a complaint.

Requests for correction, including from people named here, go to records@superegofiles.com and are answered on the record.

A shared name alone never establishes that two records refer to the same person. Names repeat, transliterations vary, and filings are made by clerks working from imperfect information.

Identity requires a documentary bridge: a shared address on two filings, a signature block, an officer listing, a driver's licence or file number appearing in both records, a court exhibit that ties them together. Where that bridge exists, the page names it. Where it does not, the page states in plain text that the records may or may not describe the same person, and the records are kept separate until a document connects them.