The Supreme Court

ABA Law Info basic legal information
About the Supreme Court
ACLU Freedom page American Civil Liberties Union
ALSO! (American Legal Sources Online) includes state laws & commentary
AltLaw archive of all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754
Amendments to the Constitution
Antitrust Debates, Supreme Court
Bacal's Indispensable Website for Lawyers and their Clients
Bill of Rights National Archive
Bill of Rights: Grolier
Celebration USA teaches children about the U.S. constitution
Center for Constitutional Rights law center news
Code of Hammurabi Yale Law School
Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics U.S. Dept. of Justice
Constitution with annotations of cases, organized by article and amendment
Constitution, Amendments to the
Cornell Legal Information Institute --"The server offers the LII's collection of recent and historic Supreme Court decisions, its hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure, recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals and commentary on them from the liibulletin-ny, the American Legal Ethics Library, and other important legal materials -- federal, state, foreign and international.
Corporate Crime Reporter a legal newsletter - Check out their Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the 1990s
Counsel Quest --good general reference tools
Court TV --current cases for the non-lawyer
Dictionary, Duhaime's Law
Dictionary, Free includes an english dictionary, thesaurus, computing dictionary, medical dictionary, legal dictionary, financial dictionary and three encyclopedias
Dictionary, Legal WWLIA
Divorces, see LegalZoom below
Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (FJSRC) --First-time users will want to begin with the Data Dictionary
Finding Court Opinions On The Web links to all major federal and state courts
FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources --includes a growing library of case law and full text search of law reviews on the Internet
FindLaw: Constitutional Law Center
FORMS --free legal forms online
Free Advice.com "replies to hundreds of frequently asked legal questions in more than 20 categories" (YIL)
Gammel's The Laws of Texas (Volumes 1-10) published over 100 years ago and never reprinted; invaluable for history researchers; includes documents from the time of colonization through statehood - congressional and legislative sessions, constitutions, selected journals of the constitutional conventions, and early colonization laws
Guide to Law Online Law Library of Congress
Higher Education Law, Colby's notes
Hieros Gamos --very comprehensive multilingual site
Innocence Project "Cardozo School of Law.. Project only handles cases where postconviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence" - so far has gotten over 130 prisoners exonerated
Internet Legal Resource Guide --includes latest legal documents, a categorized index of 3100 web sites, links to law school ratings
Journals, Electronic --most of the known meta-sites are here
TheLAW.com articles and live chat with attorneys
Law Library of Congress
Law News Network breaking news in the legal profession
Lawyer Express legal news and information for busy lawyers
LEGAL ENGINE start here to search for online legal information
Legal Information Institute --"The server offers the LII's collection of recent and historic Supreme Court decisions, its hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure, recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals and commentary on them from the liibulletin-ny, the American Legal Ethics Library, and other important legal materials -- federal, state, foreign and international.
Legal Search Engines--LawGuru --includes search engines for states
Legal Search Engines--LawRunner
LegalZoom.com help you process and file papers for divorces, wills, copyrights, incorporation, much more at low fees
Lexis State Resource Guide extensive links to state offices and laws
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator - U.S. and International
Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research --searchable legal indexes on the Web
National Lawyers Guild dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. The Guild unites lawyers, law students, and legal workers as an effective political and social force in the service of the people
Oyez Project over 2000 hours of audio recordings of various cases and arguments held before the Supreme Court as well as a virtual tour of the Supreme Court building
Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Government
Pinochet --House of Lord's Judgement Re Pinochet
Social Science Information Gateway Covers Anthropology, Business, Economics, Education, Environment, European Studies, Geography, Government policies, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Research, Social Welfare, Sociology, Statistics, Womens Studies; also has a place for faculty to place their vitae for job searches
Supreme Court of the United States official website
Supreme Court Antitrust Debates
Supreme Court Docket and Info
Texas Elder Law Paul Premack
Thomas best legislative research site (YIL).. gateway to federal bills, laws, amendments, House and Senate committees, federal agencies, guide to the legislative process
Top 10 Consumer Fraud Complaints of 2001 from the Federal Trade Commission - identity theft was #1, accounting for 42% of all complaints
Trademark Information, U.S>
Understanding the Federal Courts [pdf]
United States Attorneys' Manual
United States Code 2000 federal law codification; search or browse
U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (searchable)
public access to the basic documents of U.S. law
U.S. Supreme Court Opinions, Database of
The Virtual Chase Legal Research on the Internet
Virtual Library: Law --"a collection of subject related Websites maintained by institutions throughout the world, each administering a different subject. Material within the Virtual Law Library is organized by organization type (i.e. U.S. Government Servers) and by legal topic (i.e. Contracts)"
WashLaw Web --large subject index of links
West Legal Directory --search for a lawyer
Why does the American Constitution Lack Social and Economic Guarantees? critical Supreme Court appointments made by President Nixon may have effectively undercut an emerging movement that may have led to the incorporation of such guarantees into the Constitution - a working paper from the University of Chicago
Will preparation, see LegalZoom above
WTO/GATT Research compiled by Jeanne Rehberg, NYU Law Librarian; an authoritative guide to an intimidating subject, without a trace of jargon

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