Supreme Court and U.S. Federal Courts

The Supreme Court examines the meaning of laws, how they are applied, and whether they challenge the Constitution. Once the Supreme Court makes a decision, it can only be changed by another Supreme Court decision or by amending (changing) the Constitution.

• US Supreme Court (FindLaw)
  Court docket section allows users to browse cases by topic or month. Site also includes justice biographies, rules of the Court, briefs (most recent five years), headlines and other news, and decisions, also most recent five years.
  
  
• Legal Information Institute
  Allows users to search for recent decisions by keyword, docket number, year, words in case name. Archives decisions back to 1990, also groups them by subject. Includes the Wex, a collaboratively built, freely available legal dictionary and encyclopedia.
  
  
• United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers' Edition (print source)

  Cases argued and decided in the Supreme Court of the United States. Includes annotations, summaries of counsel briefs, additional indexing and pocket parts, all of which are not included in the official version below. 1790 - present.

  KF101 .U581

  Government Information Reference

  3rd floor, Bird Library

  
  
• United States Reports (print source)

  Also called Official Reports of the Supreme Court. Includes opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1790 - present.

  K.F101.U586

  Government Information Reference

  3rd floor, Bird Library

  
  
• Supreme Court Case Research
  This pathfinder addresses citation formats, case reporters, digests, citators, current awareness services, and records and briefs.
  
  
• Supreme Court Historical Society
  Historical and background information on the Supreme Court and Justices. Includes the current court, previous court locations, sample cases, selected digitized collections.   See also The History of the Supreme Court.
  
  
• Supreme Court of the United States
  Includes information about the supreme court, the constitution, biographies of current justices, list of all justices who have ever served (including who appointed them, their home state, etc).
  
  
• Federal Judicial Center
  The education and research agency for the U.S. federal courts.  Features federal judiciary history, educational programs and materials, class action notices, etc.
  
  
• U.S. Courts
  The home page of the U.S. federal judiciary.  Provides information on and links to all U.S. federal courts.
  
  
• See also the Legal Research section of LexisNexis Academic.