U.S.INFORMATION : CASES
COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTIONS OF FEDERAL AND STATE CASE LAW
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Lexis-Nexis will soon be offering access to its entire database via the
Web, including case law, statutes, secondary sources and news.
LOIS is fee-based library. It currently has U.S. Supreme Court
opinions from 1899, all federal circuit court opinions since 1971, and appellate
opinions from Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida,
Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island,
South Carolina and Wisconsin. The price ranges from $300 to $2,595 a year,
depending on the libraries you choose to access. New customers can try the
service for $8 a day.
"V.", operated by VersusLaw Inc. of Redmond, Wash., provides
Internet access to opinions from the U.S. Supreme Court, all 13 federal
circuit courts, and the appellate courts of all 50 state and the District
of Columbia. V.'s archive goes back to 1930 for many states, to 1930 for
most federal circuits, and back to 1900 for the Supreme Court. Access to
the library currently costs $75 a month or $595 a year. There are no additional
usage charges or downloading fees. You can try it free for two weeks by
registering at the site.
Westlaw is available via the Web only to subscribers to Westlaw Pro,
a flat-fee program for firms with 1-9 lawyers.
If you are looking for a specific case for which you know the citation,
party names or docket number, you can retrieve it using WestDoc. This service,
from West Publishing, allows you to retrieve any state or federal case from
the WestLaw library and also you can retrieve articles of many law reviews.
The fee is $10 for each case retrieved.
For older Supreme Court cases, go to the FedWorld/FLITE Supreme Court
Decisions Homepage, Here you will find a database of more than 7,000 Supreme
Court opinions issued between 1937 and 1975.
A single, searchable database of all Supreme Court decisions since 1893
to present is available from FindLaw. Cases can be browsed by year and U.S.
Reports volume number or searched by citation, case title and full text.
The U.S. Supreme Court has been disseminating its opinions electronically
since 1990. On the World Wide Web, the best place to find the court's current
opinions is through the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School,
Here can be found all Supreme Court decisions since 1990, posted within
moments of their release. Decisions can be searched by key words or by topic.
They also are indexed by party name, date and docket number. You can read
the decisions online or download them in Adobe Acrobat format.
Supreme Court opinions since 1995 and those from the FLITE database are
also available through Villanova University School of Law at:
A commercial site, USSCPlus, offers the full text of Supreme Court decisions
since 1953, as well as selected leading cases since 1793.
U.S. CIRCUIT COURTS CASES
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A library of all federal circuit court decisions since 1994 is maintained
by Law Journal EXTRA, the Web site of the National Law Journal,
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The Touro Law Center at Pace University School of Law |
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since 1994:Villanova University School of Law |
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since Jan.1.1995:The Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library |
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The official site of 5th U.S. Circuit |
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since January 1995:Emory School of Law |
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since Jan.1.1993:Chicago-Kent College of Law |
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since June 1995:Villanova University School of Law |
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Office of Circuit Executive |
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since Nov.1994:Emory School of Law |
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since Aug.1995:Emory School of Law |
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since Aug.1995:Georgtown University |
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The official Web site of D.C. Circuit |
U.S. DISTRICT COURTS CASES
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（１）U.S. District Courts whose opinions are on the Internet
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opinions since August 1994, published by the University of Mississippi School
of Law Library, in cooperation with the court. |
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opinions since 1994, published by the University of South Carolina Law Center.
Opinions can be searched by name, date or key word. |
（２）U.S. District Courts with selected opinions available
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A selection of 1996 opinions are available from the "unofficial"
home page for the court. This privately operated site is no longer being
updated, so only the 1996 archives are available. |
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published by the State Bar of South Dakota |
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publishes opinions resulting from Norplant litigation in that court. They
can be downloaded in WordPerfect 6.1 format. |
（３）Other U.S. District Courts on the Web without opinions
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This is an index of 1996 opinions prepared by Widener University. Full-text
opinions can be ordered by e-mail. |
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U.S.BANKRUPTCY COURTS CASES
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The American Bankruptcy Institute maintains an extensive library of bankruptcy
court decisions at its Web site, Opinions are keyword-searchable, and indexed
according to court and date, as well as by presiding judge. The scope of
the cases in the archive is limited to what bankruptcy judges forward to
ABI.
The Federal Judiciary's PACER system (Public Access to Court Electronic
Records) allows anyone with a computer and modem to dial in directly to
a district or bankruptcy court computer and obtain case information and
court dockets. Most PACER systems charge an access fee of 75 cents a minute.
A complete list of PACER telephone numbers for U.S. district and bankruptcy
courts can be found on the Internet
Bankruptcy Appellate Panels
Bankruptcy courts whose opinions are available
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all decisions published since Jan. 1, 1995, courtesy of "The Massachusetts
Bankruptcy Page," |
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via Web PACER, requires i.d. |
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requires account and password |
U.S. Bankruptcy courts with Web sites without opinions
The Others
A.C.L.U.
v. Reno
A.C.L.U.
v. Reno
A.C.L.U. v. Reno
(EPLR Document Library)
Cyber Promotions
Inc. v. America Online Inc (DC E. Pa, filed Nov. 4, 1996)
Playboy Entertainment
Group Inc. v. Reno (DC Del, filed Nov. 8, 1996)
Planned Parenthood
Federation of America Inc. v. Bucci (DC S. NY, filed March 19, 1997)
R.
v. Pecciarich 22 O.R. (3d) p.748-766
Shea v. Reno
Shea v. Reno
(DC SNY, filed July 29, 1996) EPLR Document Library
U.S.
v. Thomas
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