Finding U.S. Legal Materials
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Case Law, and Select Federal Documents
U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
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Supreme Court cases since 1893. Browsable by year, and searchable by citation, case title, and full text.
Cornell Legal Information Institute
Supreme Court Decisions arranged from 1990 to present; The LII collection of historic decisions of the US Supreme Court contains over 600 of the court's most important decisions through the whole period of its existence. The decisions can be accessed by party name, by topic, and by opinion author.
U.S. Supreme Court's Oyez Project
Provides information about major constitutional cases heard and decided by the Supreme Court of the United States including digital recordings of the Court's proceedings. Also contains biographies of Supreme Court Justices, and a virtual tour of the U.S. Supreme Court.
U. S. Courts of Appeals
FindLaw.com Circuit Court of Appeals Database
Full text of U.S. Court of Appeals cases is generally limited to cases decided after 1990.
U.S. District Courts
FindLaw.com's District Courts Page Links
Browse by district and click the link to be taken to a site containing court opinions for the district you selected.
Federal Court Rules
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
The Federal Rules of Evidence
Federal Statutes and Regulations
The United States Code (Searchable)
Search the entirety of the United States Code, the statutes enacted into law by the U.S. Congress. Provided by the U.S. House of Representatives' Office of the Law Revision Counsel.
The United States Code (Browsable)
Click on the Title to browse through its sections on the Cornell Legal Information Institute's Web Site.
Title 1 General Provisions
Title 2 The Congress
Title 3 The President
Title 4 Flag and Seal, Seat Of Government, and the States
Title 5 Government Organization and Employees
Title 6 Surety Bonds (repealed)
Title 7 Agriculture
Title 8 Aliens and Nationality
Title 9 Arbitration
Title 10 Armed Forces
Title 11 Bankruptcy
Title 12 Banks and Banking
Title 13 Census
Title 14 Coast Guard
Title 15 Commerce and Trade
Title 16 Conservation
Title 17 Copyrights
Title 18 Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Title 19 Customs Duties
Title 20 Education
Title 21 Food and Drugs
Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Title 23 Highways
Title 24 Hospitals and Asylums
Title 25 Indians
Title 26 Internal Revenue Code
Title 27 Intoxicating Liquors
Title 28 Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
Title 29 Labor
Title 30 Mineral Lands and Mining
Title 31 Money and Finance
Title 32 National Guard
Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters
Title 34 Navy (repealed)
Title 35 Patents
Title 36 Patriotic Societies and Observances
Title 37 Pay and Allowances Of the Uniformed Services
Title 38 Veterans' Benefits
Title 39 Postal Service
Title 40 Public Buildings, Property, and Works
Title 41 Public Contracts
Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare
Title 43 Public Lands
Title 44 Public Printing and Documents
Title 45 Railroads
Title 46 Shipping
Title 47 Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs
Title 48 Territories and Insular Possessions
Title 49 Transportation
Title 50 War and National Defense
United States Code of Federal Regulations
This site of the National Archives and Records Administration allows you to search or browse the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations ("CFR").
Help with Conducting a Federal Legislative History
This guide prepared by the University of Washington School of Law includes links to free Internet sources and commercial sources.
Federal Documents
The Declaration of Independence
Provided by the National Archives & Records Administration, this site contains links to the text, transcription, and analyses of The Declaration of Independence.
The Constitution of the United States of America
A hyperlinked version of the full-text of the U.S. Constitution provided by Emory University.
The Constitution of the United States of America
Provided by the National Archives & Records Administration, this site contains links to the text, transcription, and analyses of the U.S. Constitution.
The Federal Register
Search the Federal Register from the Government Printing Office.
Searchable Legal Dictionary
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