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Legal Research

Federal and State Cases

FindLaw
It provides summaries of cases.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google is now including full-text legal opinions from U.S. Federal and State District, Appellate, and Supreme courts in Google Scholar.

Justia.com
It has US Supreme Court cases 1700s to present; Federal Court of Appeals opinions since 1950; US District Court opinions.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
News, business, and legal sources —including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 (previously LexisNexis Academic).

Federal and State Codes

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute
It has links to the US Constitution, US Code, Code of Federal Regulation, US Supreme Court decisions, Uniform Commercial Code, Federal Rules, and State Codes.

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Law journals, Congressional Record, U.S. Reports (1754-present), famous world trials (1700’s-present), United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, U. S. Treaties, Federal Register (1936-present), CFR (1938-present), and more.

Justia
US Code. Code of Federal Regulations, US Regulations Tracker, Individual State Codes.

In addition, it has a keyword-searchable database of tables of contents from more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly publications related to the law published in the United States and abroad.