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Explain parent-child court relationships in documentation #4421

Open mlissner opened 2 months ago

mlissner commented 2 months ago

I think there are two parts to this:

  1. We need to add something to the API about how parent-child court relationships work.

  2. We need to document in the search API that we use a trick to select child courts for certain courts.

@flooie do you think you could help with this one?

mlissner commented 2 months ago

Just posted this answer to a client with questions about this:

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mlissner commented 2 months ago

@flooie, can you please put this on a backlog so we know when it will be completed?