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Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute
Supreme Court Collection
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
Provides access to supreme court decisions from 1990 on. Also includes 600 of the most important historical cases. Search by topic, author, plaintiff. Also provides hightlights from the current term.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
FindLaw's Searchable Supreme Court Decision Database
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html
FindLaw's searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893 (U.S. Supreme Court
Decisions: U.S. Reports 150-, 1893-). Browsable by year and US Reports volume number and
searchable by citation, case title and full text. This is a free service that will remain free.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
Flite Database
http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm
A searchable archive of over 7400 Supreme Court opinions dating from 1937 through 1975, from volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports. Courtesy of The Villanova University School of Law or FedWorld.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
The Third Branch: The Newsletter of the Federal Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/index.html
(Last checked 08/28/08)
U.S. Code
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/uscmain.html
A browsable United States Code application is now available on GPO Access. The browse feature allows you to browse individual U.S. Code titles, down to the section level, for the latest available update. The browse feature consists of several levels. First you choose which title(s) you wish to browse. The second level displays the chapters for the selected title. The third level gives a list of parts for that title, with hypertext links to the section-level documents. U.S. Code documents are available in ASCII text format.
Source: GOVDOC-L, Dec. 20, 2000.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
United States Code Database
http://uscode.house.gov/
Provides access to the United States Code, a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. Compiled and maintained by the U.S. House of Representatives Office of the Law Revision Counsel.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
U.S. Code and Federal Case Law from Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
MSU faculty, staff, and students can search the U.S. Code and/or federal court cases via Lexis Nexis Academic Universe. Choose legal research and follow the menu.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
U.S. Statutes at Large, 1789-1873
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsl.html
The seventeen volumes presented in this online collection cover the laws of the first forty-two Congresses, 1789-1873.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
Fed Courts
http://www.fedcourts.com/
A portal to Federal Courts across the United States. Select a state on the snappy red, white and blue map. There are also a list of federal court districts below the snappy map.
The State page starts with the Supreme Court level and bookmarks down the page to levels of Court of Appeals and U.S. Circuit & District. County and Municipal Courts are listed also, as are Resources sorted by category such as Professional Rules & Commentary and Ethics Opinions. The text could be a little larger, but it's an interesting site.
(Last checked 12/26/02)
U.S. Courts: the official web page of the Federal Judiciary
http://www.uscourts.gov/
Users will find general information on federal courts, with links to individual court sites provided. Also featured are a newsroom with news stories and postings of recent press releases, resources for teachers, and information on employment opportunities. This page is maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the U.S. Courts.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
U.S. Judiciary
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usjudic.html
This web page by the Library of Congress Law Library provides links to online Supreme Court decisions, online U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions, U.S. district courts links, and online special jurisdiction decisions, including:
U.S. Supreme Court Web Page
http://www.supremecourtus.gov
Starting on April 17, 2000, the Supreme Court's decisions will be available on this site within hours of their 10 a.m. release, through a link to a site run by the Government Printing Office. Later on the day of release, the court's own site will make the opinions directly available. Other information to be available on the Web site includes the weekly orders granting and denying new appeals; the court's schedule and argument calendar; the court's rules; bar admission forms and instructions; visitors' guides; news releases; and general information, like biographies of the justices. Source: Linda Greenhouse, "Going Online: The Opinions That Count", The New York Times, April 11, 2000, pA19.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
USSCPLUS.COM
http://www.usscplus.com/index.html
Although part of this web site is fee based, free sections include:
Statistical Tables for the Federal Judiciary
http://www.uscourts.gov/judiciary2002/contents.html
(Last checked 03/17/03)
Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
http://www.llrx.com/features/supremectwebguide.htm
Gail Partin's thorough and up-to-date guide provides annotated links to the most reliable, substantive sites for U.S. Supreme Court research. Her focus is predominantly on information that is freely or inexpensively available on the Internet. LLRX, Dec. 22, 2003.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
History of the Supreme Court
http://www.historyofsupremecourt.org/home.htm
(Last checked 08/28/08)
JURIST U.S. Supreme Court News
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/currentawareness/ussupremes.php
(Last checked 08/28/08)
Oyez Project (Northwestern University)
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage
Offers audio files of complete oral arguments before the Supreme Court in landmark cases. The site currently includes: United States v. Nixon (executive privilege - 1974); Roe v. Wade - 1973; Griswold v. Connecticut (Planned Parenthood challenging a Connecticut law that declared counseling married persons on the use of contraceptives a crime - 1965); and Pennsylvania v. Casey (informed consent and 24 hour waiting period for abortions - 1992), among others. Background information, the constitutional question, the conclusion, and the vote are provided for each case. Selected cases include hypertext links to the actual opinions. The arguments are in RealAudio format. Professor Jerry Goldman, a political scientist at Northwestern University, created the site.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
Supreme Court Debates
http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/general/supreme.htm
Once a month, this 32-page periodical highlights both the pro and con
aspects of a current controversial case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
(Last checked 02/20/02)
Understanding the Federal Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/UFC99.pdf
Nice overview by the The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
United States Legal System
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usintro.html
Includes Enactment of a Law, How Our Laws Are Made, Introduction to the Legal System. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
U.S. Supreme Court Monitor
http://www.law.com/us_supreme_ct/
Law.com has announced the launch of a new information service covering news, oral arguments, orders, and other events at the US Supreme Court. It's is divided into three sections, news,
decisions, and cert. granted. The news section contains information on the current court term, organizes the stories by date, provides an abstract and a link to the full story. The decisions section gives a short summary of cases decided by the Court during the last term and from the current term as they are issued. And the cert. granted section gives information on pending cases by argument date and subject.
(Last checked 08/28/08)
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/overview.htm
Full text version courtesy of the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute
(Last checked 08/28/08)
Federal Rules of Evidence
http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/overview.html
Full text version courtesy of the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute
(Last checked 08/28/08)
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