UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT CASES

INTERNET SOURCES

Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/

Supreme Court decisions from 1990 to current and historic; organized by topic, author, and party. to current selected historic decisions.

FindLaw

http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

United States Supreme Court decisions from 1893 to current.

Oyez U.S. Supreme Court Media

http://www.oyez.org/

Multimedia court cases dating back to the 1950s when tape recordings of the Supreme Court began.

Supreme Court of the United States

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Official site of the United States Supreme Court

ONLINE CATALOG

Use SUBJECT SEARCH – United States – Supreme Court or name of case such as Roe v. Wade. In court cases “v” or “vs”are both abbreviations for “versus” which comes from Latin and means “against”.

Use KEYWORD SEARCH – Type in names of parties in the court case.

PRINT SOURCES

Brannen, Daniel, Richar Clay and Elizabeth Shaw, eds. Supreme Court Drama: Cases that Changed America. Detroit, MI: U.X.L, 2001, 4 vols. Profiles about 150 cases with major influence on American law. KF4550Z9 B73 2001

Finkelman, Paul and Melvin Urofsky. Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2003. Has more than 1000 summaries of decisions arranged chronologically by decade from 1790 to 2002. KF4549.F56 2003 (Reference use only).

Hall, Kermit, James Ely and Joel Grossman, eds. Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Has biographies of justices; summaries of important cases, and how the Supreme Court functions. KF8742.A35 O93 2005 (Reference use only).

Hartman, Gary, Roy Mersky and Cindy Tate. Landmark Supreme Court Cases: the Most Influential Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: Facts on File, 2004. Provides alternative case title, legal citation, key issues, history of case, arguments, decision, aftermath, significance, related cases, and recommended reading. KF8742.H37 2004

Janosik, Robert, ed. Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System: Studies of the Principal Institutions and Processes of Law. New York: Scribner, 1987. 3 vols. Essays on American law for readers without legal training about history of the Supreme Court, legal concepts and some case law. KF154.E53 1987 (Reference use only).

Johnson, John W., ed. Historic U.S. Court Cases: an Encyclopedia. 2^nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 2 vols. Essays on court decisions dealing with contemporary social issues. KF385.A464 2001 (Reference use only).

Lively, Donald E. Landmark Supreme Court Cases: a Reference Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Covers 74 cases Supreme Court cases that have had major impact on society. F4549.L58 1999 (Reference use only).

Lockard, Duane. Basic Cases in Constitutional Law. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1992. Brings together opinions of the Supreme Court that have influenced constitutional law and U.S. political policies. KF4549.L55 1992

Mauro, Tony. Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court. Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 2000. Provides backgrounds, votes, highlights, excerpts and impact of Supreme Court decisions. KF4549.M334 2000 (Reference use only).

Mikula, Mark and L. Mapho Mabunda, eds. Great American Court Cases. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999. 4 vols.. Contains nearly 800 court cases arranged by subject –individual liberties; criminal justice; equal protection under the law; business and government cases. KF385.A4G68 1999 (Reference use only)

West’s Encyclopedia of American Law. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005. 13 vols. Contains in alphabetical order legal definitions, events, movements, cases and persons that shaped United States law. KF154 W47 2005 (Reference use only).

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