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Federal
- BusinessLaws
An online resource guide from Business.gov designed to provide legal and regulatory information to America's small businesses.
- EnviroText
EnviroText is a searchable database of U.S. environmental regulations,
as well as Indian Tribal Codes and Treaties. Sources include Public Laws,
U.S. Code, Executive Orders, Federal Register, Unified Agenda, Code of
Federal Regulations, Native American Treaties, and Tribal Law Codes.
- FLITE
Historic Files of Supreme Court decisions from the U.S. Air Force.
1937-1975.
- Supreme Court Opinions 1893-Present
From FindLaw, search on volume,
year, ciation, title, and full text of opinions. The opinions have
hypertext in them, referring users to cited cases' opinions.
- THOMAS: Bills and Congressional Record from the 101st Congress to Present
The Congressional Record is the most widely recognized published account of the debates, proceedings, and activities of the United States Congress. On this site also find
Congress this Week, Committee information, historical documents and information on the legislative process.
- TRAC: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
Comprehensive information about the activities of federal enforcement and regulatory
agencies, and the communities in which they take place. Find information on the following agencies: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Internal Revenue Service. Registration is required for entering the IRS and FBI data areas.
- Uniform Commercial Code
Web interface by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell's Law
School.
- U.S. Code of Federal Regulations
Enhanced version of the U.S. Code that can also be searched through the GPO Access.
- White House
Numerous White House publications, pointers to important documents, and various other federal information sources.
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State & Local Law
- FindLaw's State Legal Resources Directory
Find legal and governmental information from each state.
- Full-Text State Statutes on the Internet
A meta-index that gathers state-level links of multiple internet formats which point to constitutions, state statutes, and other legislative resources.
- Municipal Codes Online
The Seattle Public Library maintains this list of municipal codes that can be searched for free over the Internet.
- State Legal Resources on the Web
From the University of Michigan Documents Center, a table for all states and territories with web links to the state web site, bills, session laws, legal codes, constitution, new regulations and executive orders, codified regulations, attorney general opinions, state courts, and main newspapers.
- State Resource Center
A category of LexisOne's free Legal Internet Guide, this resource provides extensive lists of links to statewide offices, legal branches, counties, rules of court and important legal forms.
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Louisiana
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International Law
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Discussion Groups
- LegalMinds
Search the archives from over 60 law-related mailling lists.
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Journals and Scholarly Publications
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Projects
- A Cenutry of Law Making for a New Nation
The Library of Congress has digitized the United States Statutes at Large, the official source for the laws and resolutions passed by Congress, from 1789-1873. Every law, public and private, ever enacted by the Congress is published in the Statutes at Large in order of the date of passage. Until 1948 all treaties and international agreements approved by the Senate were also published in the set. In addition, the Statutes at Large publishes the text of amendments to the Constitution and of presidential proclamations.
- JURIST: The Legal Education Network®
A combination of an index and a directory to Net-literate law
professors, this page offers links to professor's home pages, course
information, online articles, resources for academics, students, and the
public, as well as links to many useful and relevant organizations and web
sites.
- Legal Information Institute
From Cornell Univeristy Law School, a major clearinghouse of legal
information.
- LII's Eye on the Courts: Newsworthy Decisions Available on the Internet
Provides quick access to appellate decisions that are in the news. With the name of the court involved and one or more of the parties you should be able to track down most high profile decisions quite quickly from this point.
- The Oyez Project
Northwestern University provides unedited oral arguments before the Supreme Court and offers audio files of complete oral arguments before the Supreme Court in landmark cases.
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
The site from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress contains approximately 100 pamphlets and books. The documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance. Of the cases presented here, most took place in America and a few in Great Britain. Notable entries include the Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns; A Brief Sketch of the Trial of William Lloyd Garrison; The Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court; and the Trial of John Brown.
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