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Federal
Courts Finder |
Emory Law's Federal
Courts Finder provides links to the opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court,
1st - 11th, Federal and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeal. |
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Clickable map of
the federal circuit courts. |
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Findlaw
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Directory devoted
to legal research and the legal community with links to over 25,000
sites and 30 practice areas. |
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Yahoo-like arrangement
of legal resources including: cases, codes, legal news, mailing lists,
message boards and free e-mail. |
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Federal
government website interface to government info. on the Internet.
Info. arranged by subject with search engine. |
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Links
to primary government sources such as: the Federal
Register, Code
of Federal Regulations, and Thomas
website. |
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Georgia
Net |
State of Georgia
government site. Contains searchable versions of Georgia's Official
Code (unannotated) and Register as well as searchable opinions from
the Georgia Supreme Court and Georgia Court of Appeals. |
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Law Students:
Supreme Court of Georgia webpage links to the Georgia Bar Admissions
Office. Past bar examinations are posted to the site. |
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Hieros
Gamos |
Database directory
of legal and government information for the U.S. and other countries.
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Another Yahoo-like
arrangement of legal resources but with an international flavor. In
English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. |
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Jurist
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University of Pittsburgh
School of Law's Jurist network is an academic
gateway to authoritative legal information, instruction and
scholarship online. |
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Jurist focuses
on supporting law professors, but anyone may benefit. The site
provides links to legal issues in the news, online law journal articles,
teaching resources and discussion forums. |
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Legal
Information Institute at Cornell |
Searchable version
of the most recent United States Code as well as nearly all
U.S. Supreme Court opinions since May 1990. |
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Allows code search
by popular name, citation or keyword. Contains current U.S.
Supreme Court calendar and schedule of oral arguments. |
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MetaIndex
for Legal Research (offline pending server upgrade) |
GSU Law Professor
Patrick Wiseman's award winning MetaIndex provides one interface for
a variety of legal search engines on the Internet. |
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Search by names
or citation to find judicial opinions, legislation, federal regulations
and other legal resources. |
| Municode
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Local
ordinances from around the United States and over 500 municipal governments.
Most available at no charge. |
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Oyez
Project |
U.S. Supreme Court
multi-media database with Real Audio digital recordings of oral arguments,
opinions, and announcements. |
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Searchable by name,
citation and date. Includes judicial biographies and a virtual
tour of the Supreme Court. |
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Thomas
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Library of Congress'
congressional information site. Legislative info. dating back
to the 93rd Congress with full-text materials for legislation from
the past 10 years. |
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for detailed instructions on searching the Thomas site. |
Search by bill
number or keyword phrase. |
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Washlaw
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Links to laws and
state government sites for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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Washburn
University School of Law's alphabetically arranged grid allows research
by geographical area, subject matter or by federal circuit. |
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WWW Virtual
Law Library |
Searchable
list of legal resources by topic |
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Indiana
University's WWW Virtual Law Library search engine allows searching
by topic (e.g., torts) and by information type (e.g., journals) |
