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Department of Political Science Legal Research Resources

General Sources

Finding Statutes

Finding Court Opinions

Supreme Court

US Circuit Courts

RI Courts

General Legal Sources and Gateways to Legal Databases

Legal & Regulatory Research-- http://www.aspaldi.com/lawlist.html The best overall (free) legal research gateway site with links to an incredible number of other sites.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe -- http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe Comprehensive legal research tool.

FindLaw -- http://www.findlaw.com One of the best overall legal research sites. Supreme Court cases since 1893, law review searches and links to other legal internet sites.

Legal Information Institute, Cornell University -- http://fatty.law.cornell.edu LII offers a collection of recent and historic Supreme Court calendar and decisions; hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure; recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals.

WashLaw Web -- http://lawlib.wuacc.edu An original on-line legal site indexer and continues to innovate.

Law Journal EXTRA! -- http://www.ljx.com Online legal newspaper, updated daily. Articles examining major legal developments. Includes sites devoted to specific practice areas, each with a collection of news stories, legal memoranda, and links to related cases, laws and resources.

II. FINDING STATUTES

U.S. House of Representatives, Internet Law Library-- http://law.house.gov Full-text of the U.S. Code and the Code of Federal Regulations, as well as materials ranging from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to the federal budget and the Federal Register and links to state statutory materials.

Thomas-- http://thomas.loc.gov Legislative Information from the Library of Congress. Includes text of all versions of House and Senate bills and the Congressional Record.

Rhode Island General Assembly -- http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/gen_assembly/genmenu.html R.I. General Laws, the R.I. Constitution, public laws since 1994, and the text of pending bills.

III. FINDING COURT OPINIONS

A. Supreme Court.

Legal Information Institute -- http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html Supreme Court decisions since 1990, indexed by party name, date and docket number and posted within moments of their release. Decisions can be searched by key words or by topic. Download them in either WordPerfect or ASCII format.

FedWorld/FLITE Supreme Court Decisions Homepage -- http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm Supreme Court opinions issued between 1937 and 1975.

Villanova University School of Law -- http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Ct/sct.html Supreme Court opinions since 1995 and those from the FLITE database.

Findlaw -- http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html Supreme Court decisions from 1893 to present.

USSCPlus -- http://www.usscplus.com Full text of Supreme Court decisions from the current term, as well as a searchable database of cases since 1966.

B. U.S. Circuit Courts

1st Circuit -- http://www.law.emory.edu/1circuit

2nd Circuit -- http://www.tourolaw.edu/2ndCircuit/

3rd Circuit, since 1994 -- http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Ct/ca03.html

4th Circuit, since Jan. 1, 1995 -- http://www.law.emory.edu/4circuit

5th Circuit -- http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/

5th Circuit, since 1992 -- http://www.law.utexas.edu/us5th/us5th.htm

6th Circuit, since January 1995 -- http://www.law.emory.edu/6circuit

7th Circuit -- http://www.law.emory.edu/7circuit

8th Circuit, since Oct. 30, 1995 -- http://www.wulaw.wustl.edu/8th.cir

9th Circuit, from June 1995 -- http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Ct/ca09.html

10th Circuit, since August 1995 -- http://www.law.emory.edu/10circuit

11th Circuit, since November 1994 -- http://www.law.emory.edu/11circuit/index.html

11th Circuit -- http://www.mindspring.com/~wmundy/opinions.html

Federal Circuit, since August 1995 -- http://www.law.emory.edu/fedcircuit

Federal Circuit, demonstration site, recent decisions only -- http://www.fedcir.gov/

D.C. Circuit, since March 1995 -- http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/Fed-Ct/cadc.html

C. Rhode Island Courts

R.I. Supreme Court -- http://www.ribar.com/Courts/courts.html Selected opinions.

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