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LexisNexis Academic - Legal Research

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Part of the LexisNexis Academic database, the Legal Research section provides access to primary source material such as case law and statutes and regulations as well as secondary source materials like legal news and full text law reviews. The major legal research sources include:

Shepard's Citations for the Supreme Court - Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; Law review articles from over 450 publications; U.S. Supreme Court decisions from January 1790 to present, searchable by majority opinion, minority opinion, concurring opinion, counsel, or headnotes; U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decisions; U.S. District Court decisions from 1789 to present; Decisions from Bankruptcy Courts; U.S. Court of International Trade; Tax Courts; Courts of Customs and Patent Appeals, and Veterans, Commerce, and Military Courts; State court decisions at all court levels for all 50 states and territories; All Federal laws from 1988 to the present; Federal regulations: Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and Federal Acquisition Regulations and Supplements; Codes for all 50 states and territories, plus constitutions, court rules, and Attorneys General opinions; The IRS bulletin, IRS regulations, ABA Tax Lawyer, AICPA Tax Adviser, and more; Patents from 1971 searchable by keyword, patent number, classification number, lawyer, assignee, inventor, or summary; European Union law from the CELEX database; Law school directories, including the Martindale-Hubbell Law School Directory and NALP National Directory of Law Schools.

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