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United States Supreme Court
- The Court's own site offers decisions from 2000 forward, dockets, court schedules, court rules, and other information pertaining to the Court.
- Findlaw, a 2,000 pound gorilla of a legal site, provides full texts of Supreme Court cases dating from Volume 150 (1893) to the present.
- FedWorld (FLITE database) - How many of you know that the United States Air Force created the first electronic database of federal opinions? The FLITE database (Finding Legal Information Through Electronics) contains Supreme Court decisions from the years 1937-1975. That totals 7,407 decisions from volumes 300-422.
- The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University offers full texts of decisions from 1990 - present.
- The Oyez Project at Northwestern University is a multimedia site that provides audio files of important Supreme Court arguments. For more recent cases, there is about a 10-month turnaround between argument and when it appears on the Oyez site.
- The Medill School of Journalism, also at Northwestern, chips in a resource called On The Docket. Through the latter vehicle they cover all the cases pending before the Court, from the day the Court accepts review of the case through the issuance of the opinions.
Other Federal Courts
- The Federal Judiciary Home Page provides access to all Circuit Courts and those District and Bankruptcy Courts that offer their wares on the Web.
- The Federal Courts Finder at Emory University provides the same type of access as the Federal Judiciary home page. Use it as a backup.
- Courts.Net is a free, private directory of all federal courts.
- The government's PACER site (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) allows users to obtain case and docket information from federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts. There is also a searchable U.S. Party/Case Index. PACER charges seven cents per page, but the ease of use and information available makes it well worth the price. You must register online first before using.
- The folks at the Legal Information Institute come through again with a simple search device that allows searching across all web-based federal appellate decisions.
- The Law Library Resource Exchange checks in with a page that offers court rules, forms & dockets from over 1,400 sources, including state information.
- Federal Judicial Center - This valuable resource offers information on every judge that has served on a U.S. District Court, U.S. Circuit Court, U.S. Courts of Appeal, or the Supreme Court since 1789.
- United States Tax Court (TC & Memo decisions,1/1/99- ), (Summary decisions,1/1/01- )
- US Court of Federal Claims (7/3/97- )
- US Court of Veterans Appeals (1989 - )
United States Departments and Agencies
The first few sites will provide index-type access to the various cogs of government. The rest of them provide access to opinions and other administrative determinations.
- FedWorld - great site with a lot of info. Look for links to agency sites here.
- FirstGov - the later, greater cousin of FedWorld. More links to agencies and departments
- United States Government Manual - this publication can be searched via keyword or browsed for information. Archive dates back to the 1995-96 edition.
- Who can survive without access to current IRS forms and publications along with an archive dating back to 1992?
- Federal Administrative Decisions and Other Actions - UV's law school provides a great way to track down elusive agency decisions and opinions.
- The following entries provide quick links to various agencies' decision pages:
Legislation
- GPO Access is one of the greatest U.S. government inventions of the 20th Century. It provides access to most of the databases that follow.
- The Library of Congress' THOMAS site also offers a wealth of legislative information including bill texts, congressional reports, and more.
- Legal Information Institute's US Code
Regulations
GPO Access is the place to go. These two sites will provide the information you need - as long as you don't need anything before 1995.
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