DSL LegalLinks - United States Courts

DSL LegalLinks

United States Courts

U.S. State Courts U.S. Federal Courts U.S. Supreme Court

See more about this topic in the Dickinson Legal Research Resources:
DSL LegalLinks: International Courts
U.S. Government Resources: Judicial Branch

U.S. State Courts: For further information on a specific state's courts, please see the corresponding state's judicial page.
National Center for State Courts
http://www.ncsconline.org/: Site aimed at national courts leaders with original research, consulting services, publications, and national educational programs.
State Court Directory
http://www.statelocalgov.net//50states-courts.htm: Index of state judicial sites, with additional links to some state law libraries.
State Court Rules
http://www.llrx.com/courtrules: Index of court rules (federal or by state).
State Court Web Sites, National Center for State Courts
http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/info_court_web_sites.html: Site aimed at state courts leaders with original research, consulting services, publications, and national educational programs.

U.S. Federal Courts: For further information on a specific federal court, please see U.S. Government Resources: Judicial.
Federal Courts Finder
http://www.law.emory.edu/caselaw/: Map of federal courts and specialized federal courts from Emory School of Law.
Federal Court Locator
http://www.law.vill.edu/library/researchguides/fedcourtlocator.asp: The Federal Court Locator is a service provided by the Villanova Internet Legal Research Compass. It is intended to give net citizens a means to access information related to the federal judiciary,including slip opinions. This information can be viewed on-line or it can be downloaded.
Judicial Statistics
http://teddy.law.cornell.edu:8090/questata.htm: Statistics generator operated by Cornell, with information on federal district-court civil and federal bankruptcy cases.

U.S. Supreme Court
See more about this topic in the Dickinson Legal Research Resources: Supreme Court Research Guide & Bibliography
The Blackmun Papers
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/supreme_court/blackmun/: Page provided by PBS and the Library of Congress, with Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun's papers and a videotaped history of the court by Justice Blackmun.
Cornell's Legal Information Institute: Supreme Court
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/: Cornell’s LII webpage dedicated to the U.S. Supreme Court. Includes Supreme Court current awareness, searchable archived decisions, and other resources.
FindLaw: U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html: Searchable database of Supreme Court decisions from 1999 to the present.
FLITE (Federal Legal Information through Electronics) Supreme Court Database
http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm: Full text of Supreme Court decisions from 1937 to 1975.
LLRX: Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
http://www.llrx.com/features/supremectwebguide.htm: Research guide to the U.S. Supreme Court by Gail A. Partin, Associate Law Librarian in the Sheely-Lee Law Library at Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law.
U.S. Supreme Court
http://supremecourtus.gov/: The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and such number of Associate Justices as may be fixed by Congress. The number of Associate Justices is currently fixed at eight. Power to nominate the Justices is vested in the President of the United States, and appointments are made with the advice and consent of the Senate. This web site provides information on the Court's jurisdiction and procedures, opinions, court rules, and more.
U.S. Supreme Court Monitor
http://www.law.com/us_supreme_ct/: Supreme Court news from Law.Com.

This page was last updated: 08/26/2005
Please send questions, comments, and requests for additional information to
Gail Partin, gap6@psu.edu