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Federal Judicial Branch
Federal judicial resources contain the decisions issued by the U.S. federal courts. Also known as "case law", these materials include rulings and other issuances from the courts as well as pleadings and other documents associcated with litigation.
For detailed guides on how to find cases and use digests, check Cases, Using Digests, and U.S. Supreme Court Research.
U.S. SUPREME COURT
- Supreme Court (Official site of the Supreme Court)
- Decisions of the Supreme Court (1991 - present, Supreme Court site, in pdf format)
- Decisions of the Supreme Court (1990 to present plus selected older opinions; Cornell Legal Information Institute)
- Decisions of the Supreme Court (US Reports 150-, 1893-) (From FindLaw. Browsable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable by citation, case title and full text.)
- FLITE Historical Supreme Court Database (GPO Access, 1937-1975)
- Oyez Project (Northwestern University. Multimedia database contains oral arguments, case summaries, biographies of justices, and more.)
- Rules of the Supreme Court
U. S. COURTS OF APPEALS - OPINIONS
- D.C. Circuit (Georgetown University Law Library, March 1995-present)
- US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (September 1997-present)
- Federal Circuit (Georgetown University Law Library, August 1995-present)
- Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit Home Page, current year)
- Federal Circuit (Emory School of Law, August 1995-August 2001)
- 1st Circuit (Emory School of Law, November 1995-July 2001)
- 1st Circuit (1st Circuit web site, 1992-present)
- 2nd Circuit (FindLaw, 1996 - )
- 3rd Circuit (Villanova University, 1994-present)
- 4th Circuit (Emory School of Law, January 1995-May 2001)
- 4th Circuit (4th Circuit web site, 1996-present)
- 5th Circuit (5th Circuit Home Page, 1992-present)
- 6th Circuit (Emory School of Law, January 1995-June 1999)
- 6th Circuit (6th Circuit web site, 1994-present)
- 7th Circuit (7th Circuit web site)
- 8th Circuit (8th Circuit web site, 1995-present)
- 9th Circuit (9th Circuit web site, 1995-present)
- 10th Circuit (Emory School of Law, August 1995-October 1997
- 10 th Circuit (Washburn, October 1997-present)
- 11th Circuit (Emory School of Law, November 1994-March 2003)
- 11th Circuit (11th Circuit Web site, 1994-present)
- United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (1997-present)
U.S. DISTRICT COURTS
The Administrative Office of the Courts maintains the most current listing of links to all U.S. federal courts, including the District and Bankruptcy courts.
RELATED SITES
- Administrative Office of the Courts
- Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 1970-2000 >(The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research compiles statistics on completed trials, 1970 to 2000)
- Federal Judicial Center
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Federal Rules of Evidence
- Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court (Jurist)
- Long Range Plan for the Federal Courts (Judicial Conference of the United States)
- The Third Branch: The Newsletter of the Federal Courts
- Understanding the Federal Courts (The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
- U. S. Department of Justice
- United States Sentencing Commission