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Cases & Courts

U.S. Supreme Court

Guides to the U.S. Supreme Court

With links to decisions, orders, rules, news and background
Findlaw's Supreme Court Center
Duke Law's Supreme Court Online
Jurist
Law.com's Supreme Court Monitor
Washington Post's Supreme Court Report

Supreme Court Homepage
Recent opinions, dockets, orders, rules & oral argument transcripts

Supreme Court Opinions: Historic - Present
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
Most recent decisions | Calendars, alerts, more

Supreme Court Opinions 1893 - Present
Findlaw
by date | by volume | by cite, name or keyword

Dockets and Summaries of U.S Supreme Court Cases

SCOTUSblog Case Files
2007 - present
Briefs, dockets, documents, abstracts, transcripts and opinions

Duke Law | Medill School of Journalism | FindLaw
Summaries & questions presented

U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
(off-campus: link)
Full-text searchable images of over 350,000 briefs from more than 150,000 U.S. Supreme Court cases

Free and Fee Based Appellate Court Briefs
LLRX
Excellent guide directing researchers quickly to briefs.

Briefs Before the Supreme Court (free)
FindLaw

Oral Argument Transcripts
Available 10-15 days after argument

Rules of the Supreme Court
Cornell LII

Oyez Oyez Oyez
Audio, abstracts, and transcripts of oral arguments
The Justices

Guide to Law Clerks and Clerking at the U.S. Supreme Court
Jurist

 

   

U.S. Federal Courts

LLMC Digital
off-campus access
Digital library containing Federal Cases, Fed Reporter (First Series), and U.S. Supreme Court decisions

Findlaw Federal Cases
Findlaw
Court of Appeals decisions from 1995 | District Courts

Federal Court Opinions
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School.
:: U.S. Courts of Appeals Search Engine: Search all circuits. Coverage, and utility, varies.

Quick Links to Federal Court Websites
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
:: Court Locator - find courts & contact info by city, state, zip, circuit or area code.

Ninth Circuit and U.S. District Court of Oregon
Via our own Oregon Law page

Rules of Court
LLRX
Appellate, Civil, Bankruptcy, Evidence, Tax and Circuit Rules

U.S. Sentencing Commission
Guidelines, manuals and reports

Federal Judiciary Homepage
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
News, information and statistics

Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Federal Judicial Center
Info on all U.S. federal judges since 1789.
:: see also the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary

History of Judgeships
U.S. Courts
Historic information on authorized judgeships for all courts and judgeship appointments by presidents since 1933

Federal Judicial Center
Research and education arm of the U.S. Courts

State Courts

LLMC Digital
off-campus access
Digital library containing full run of reports from most U.S. states

State Cases and Codes
FindLaw

Oregon Case Law
L&C

State Rules of Court
LLRX

National Center for State Courts
Statistics, news and information