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Case Law

Federal

Legal Information Institute (Cornell)—Project Hermes contains all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990, links to sites with earlier cases, and a collection of over 600 of the most important historical decisions of the court.

URL: http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/

FindLaw —Searchable database of Supreme Court decisions since 1893 (U.S. Reports 150-, 1893-). Browsable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable by citation, case title and full text.

URL: http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

FLITE Database Archive —This archive of opinions was created from the official U.S. Air Force historic file of Supreme Court decisions from its FLITE (“Federal Legal Information Through Electronics”) system. The archive consists of over 7400 Supreme Court opinions dating from 1937 through 1975, from volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports.

URL: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/supcrt/index.html or http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/

Supreme Court of the United States—Opinions —Latest opinions and Where to Obtain Supreme Court Opinions (print, electronic, microform) link—http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/obtainopinions.pdf

          URL: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/opinions.html

United States Courts of Appeals Opinions

Federal Courts Finder (Emory Law Library)—Links to all the Circuit Courts (most with cases starting in the 1990's—the First Circuit starts in 2000) and the Supreme Court.

URL: http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/

Federal Court Locator (Villanova School of Law Library Research and Study Guides)—Includes links to all the Circuit Courts (most with cases starting in the 1990's—the First Circuit starts in 2000), the Supreme Court, and other federal judicial resources.

URL: http://www.law.villanova.edu/library/researchandstudyguides/

federalcourtlocator.asp

United States District Courts

Federal Court Locator(Villanova School of Law Library Research and Study Guides)—includes links to all the District Courts with websites.

URL: http://www.law.villanova.edu/library/researchandstudyguides/

federalcourtlocator.asp

U.S. Courts - District Courts(Maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)—includes links to all the District Courts with websites.

          URL: http://www.uscourts.gov/courtlinks/

State

General

FindLaw-US State Laws-Cases, Codes, Statutes and Regulations includes state appellate opinions.

            URL: http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/#statelaw

State Court Web Sites (National Center for State Courts)—Links to state and local court web sites.

URL: http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/info_court_web_sites.html

North Carolina Cases The Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of North Carolina —1997 to present for the Supreme Court; 1996 to present for the Court of Appeals.

URL: http://www.aoc.state.nc.us/www/public/html/opinions.htm

Constitutions and Statutes

Federal

GPO Access—Congressional Bills—Searchable site covering 103rd Congress to present, with bills and related documents.

                URL: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/bills/index.html

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet—Primary source for Congressional documents: bill text (101st Congress—1989/90-present), bill summaries and legislative status (93^rdCongress—1973/74-present), vetoed bills, Congressional Record text and Congressional Record Index, committee reports, explanations of the legislative process, historic documents, and more. All data browsable and searchable.

URL: http://thomas.loc.gov/

United States Code(Legal Information Institute—Cornell Law School)—Contains the most recent version of the Code made available by the US House of Representatives. Includes an update service (available onscreen as you look at each section) using the House servers and the Library of Congress Thomas service to supply accurate updates to any section which has changed.

URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/

U.S. Code (searchable) —Internet Law Library—The database includes all official U.S. Code notes and appendices, as well as the Table of Popular Names. Includes Classification Tables that show where recently enacted laws will appear in the Code and which sections of the Code have been amended by those laws. Earlier versions (1991-99) are also available. This is the one portion of the old House Internet Law Library that hasn't been turned over to other sites.

            URL: http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml

United States Constitution (Law Library of Congress)—links to full text and annotated versions, including the Congressional Research Service annotations via GPO Access ( http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html) and Findlaw (smaller segments - http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/constitution / or http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution .

            URL:  http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usconst.html

State

Guide to Law Online—U.S. States and Territories(Law Library of Congress)—Comprehensive list of state and territorial legal resources.
      
         URL: http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usstates.html

Internet Law Library—U.S. State and Territorial Laws—Links (by state) to statutes, publications, and many other state legal materials. Includes a link to model acts and interstate compacts. The House of Representatives is no longer administering the Internet Law Library and has turned it over to several law schools, companies, and government sites.

URL: http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/17.htm 

State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet —Links to sites that contain the full text of state statutes, state constitutions and other legislative resources.

URL: http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm

North Carolina

North Carolina Constitution (North Carolina General Assembly)
                       

            URL: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Legislation/constitution/ncconstitution.html or                     http://www.ncleg.net/Legislation/constitution/
            ncconstitution.html

North Carolina Constitution (State Library of North Carolina)

          URL: http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/stgovt/preconst.htm

North Carolina General Statutes —if direct link doesn't work, go to http://www.ncleg.net/ or http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/ and click on NC Statutes.
       

            URL: http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/Statutes/Statutes.asp or        
           http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/Statutes/Statutes.asp

Rules and Regulations

Federal

Code of Federal Regulations (National Archives and Records Administration)—The CFR via the United States Government Printing Office’s Access Service—current through July 2002. Revisions for 1997 through 2001 (and for part of 1996) are also available.

URL: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html#page1 or http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html

Federal Register Online via GPO (National Archives and Records Administration)—1995 (Volume 60) to present with links to an earlier version of the 1994 Federal Register, the CFR, and other sources of information concerning Congress and federal rules and legislation.      

        
         URL: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

United States Internal Revenue Service —Forms, publications, and information.

          URL: http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/

State

Also! (American Law Sources On-Line)—The available state administrative codes or compilations of rules are found here intermixed with state cases, statutes, and other materials.

URL: http://www.lawsource.com/also/

FindLaw: U.S. State Laws: Cases and Codes —Again, the available state administrative codes or compilations of rules are found here intermixed with state cases, statutes, and legislative codes.

URL: http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/state.html

North Carolina