diff --git a/peachjam/migrations/0146_clean_content_html.py b/peachjam/migrations/0146_clean_content_html.py
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+# Generated by Django 3.2.25 on 2024-07-08 10:08
+import re
+
+from django.db import migrations
+from django.db.models.functions import Length
+from lxml.etree import ParserError
+
+from peachjam.xmlutils import parse_html_str
+
+
+def clean_content_html(content_html):
+    """Ensure that content_html is not just whitespace HTML. Returns the cleaned value."""
+    if not content_html:
+        return None
+
+    # return None if the HTML doesn't have any content
+    try:
+        root = parse_html_str(content_html)
+        text = "".join(root.itertext()).strip()
+        text = re.sub(r"\s", "", text)
+        if not text:
+            return None
+    except (ValueError, ParserError):
+        return None
+
+    return content_html
+
+
+def forwards(apps, schema_editor):
+    CoreDocument = apps.get_model("peachjam", "CoreDocument")
+    # get docs where the length of content_html is > 0 but less than 500
+    qs = CoreDocument.objects.annotate(text_length=Length("content_html")).filter(
+        content_html_is_akn=False,
+        content_html__isnull=False,
+        text_length__gt=0,
+        text_length__lt=1000,
+    )
+    for doc in qs.iterator(100):
+        html = doc.content_html
+        doc.content_html = clean_content_html(doc.content_html)
+        if doc.content_html != html:
+            doc.save(update_fields=["content_html"])
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ("peachjam", "0145_alter_courtregistry_options"),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.RunPython(forwards, migrations.RunPython.noop),
+    ]