Provides access to US Federal legal reference information
available on the Internet. Find links and information to government news, government documents, major government activities, indexes to government related material, federal agency indexes, administrative actions, your state legislator, Congressional Research Project, research Congress, valuable historic documents, congressional biographies, landmark supreme court cases, supreme court audio, and much more.
U.S. Federal Resources
- Documents in the News: Current Events Research / Univ. of Michigan
- This site includes a cumulative index from 1995-2005, news archives for 2004-06, and "identifies issues about government making news headlines and web sources with additional information."
- Hot Docs: Government Documents in the News / Columbia University
- "This page contains links to full text documents or reports about major governmental activities -- New York City, New York State, U.S. Federal, or international -- which have been featured in the news."
- DocLaw Web / WashLaw
- "A gateway to Federal Government internet resources and other government related material." Organized by subject index, federal agency index, federal organizational chart, law library's federal depository collection, and document displays.
- Federal Government Resources on the Web / University of Michigan
- Administrative Decisions & Other Actions - By Agency / University of Virginia
- "This page is not an attempt to link to Federal Register or the Code of Federal Regulations information for each federal agency. It links to other administrative actions which are outside the scope of the CFR or the FR. What is available via the Internet varies from agency to agency."
- Department/Agency Search / Congress.org
- "A service of Capitol Advantage, a private, non-partisan company that specializes in facilitating civic participation." Find hundreds of agencies. Users can identify and contact elected leaders in Congress, the White House and state legislatures, post letters online, have letters printed and hand-delivered to Congress, have your representative's vote sent to you weekly, and much more.
- Guide to CRS Reports on the Web / Stephen Young / LLRX
- Includes products, history, and listings.
- Congressional Research Service Reports / Hosted by UNT Libraries
- "The Congressional Research Service (CRS) does not provide direct public access to its reports, requiring citizens to request them from their Member of Congress. Some Members, as well as several non-profit groups, have posted the reports on their Web sites. This site aims to provide integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available at a variety of different Web sites since 1990."
- Open CRS / Congressional Research Reports for the People
- "Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports."
- FedLaw
- "Fedlaw has assembled references of use to people doing Federal legal research and which can be accessed directly through "point and click" hypertext connections."
- FirstGov
- "Whatever you want or need from the U.S. government, it's here. You'll find a rich treasure of online information, services and resources."
- GovEngine.com
- "The premier federal, state, and local government site on the internet."
- GovSpot
- "A non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online. This free resource offers a high-utility collection of top government and civic resources hand-selected by our editorial team for their quality, content and utility."
- GPO Access
- "[A] service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government."
- Internet Law Library / LawGuru.com
- "The site provided links to a large number of legal resources relating to American (federal and state) and foreign laws."
- LLSDC Legislative Sourcebook
- The Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. (LLSDC) was established in 1939 for educational, informational and scientific purposes."
- Library of Congress
- "[T]he nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 58 million manuscripts."
- Legislation Resources
- A general legislation reference page with links to Congress, GPO Access, directories, Senate, House of Representatives, US Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, and more from Washlaw.
- The National Archives
- "Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever.
Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you."
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States / GPO Access
- "[A]n official series in which Presidential writings, addresses, and remarks of a public nature could be made available." GPO Access.
- Science.gov
- "Provides the scientist, engineer, and science aware citizen with easy access to key government web sites."
- TaxLinks
- "Your Online Source for IRS Revenue Rulings."
- U.S. Congressional Bibliographies / Compiled at NCSU Libraries
- "[E]numerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted."
- U.S. Department of Justice
- Official site of the department.
- The White House
- White House web site covering news, speeches, budgets, and much more. In Spanish and English.
- The Federal Court Locator / Villanova University School of Law
- "It is intended to give net citizens a means to access information related to the federal judiciary, including slip opinions. This information can be viewed on-line or it can be downloaded."
- U.S. Courts / The Federal Judiciary
- A site by the US Government of the US Courts, including geographic boundaires of appeals and district courts; links to circuit courts and maps; court locator to all courts including district, probation office, appeals, bankruptcy, and pretrial; administrative office; educational outreach; federal rulemaking; and much more.
- Federal Judicial Center
- "The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency for the federal courts. Congress created the FJC in 1967 to promote improvements in judicial administration in the courts of the U.S. This site contains the results of Center research on federal court operations and procedures and court history, as well as selected educational materials produced for judges and court employees."
- Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Official web site of the 10th Circuit.
- U.S.District Court / Kansas
- The District of Kansas US District Court of Appeals internet home page.
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court / District of Kansas
- Official Web site.
- Landmark Supreme Court Cases
- "This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case."
- Supreme Court Collection / LII
- "The Supreme Court is the highest court in the US judicial system. Decisions since 1990 are made available under the auspices of Project Hermes."
- Supreme Court Collection / Selected Historic Decisions / LII
- "The LII collection of historic decisions of the US Supreme Court contains over 300 of the court's most important decisions through the whole period of its existence."
- Oyez / U.S. Supreme Court Media
- "Today, The OYEZ Project provides access to more than 2000 hours of Supreme Court audio. All audio in the Court recorded since 1995 is included in the project. Before 1995, the audio collection is selective. It remains our aim to create a complete and authoritative archive of Supreme Court audio covering the entire span from October 1955 through the most recent release."
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Official Web site including recent decisions, search capability, dockets, oral arguments, merits briefs, bar admissions, court rules, case handling guides, opinions, orders and journals, public information, jobs, and more.
- United States Supreme Court / WashLaw's Links
- Links to Supreme Court opinions, briefs, nominations, archives, multimedia, fedlaw, and the USSCPLUS site.
- curaie.law.yale.edu / U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs
- "The Curiae Project provides Supreme Court records and briefs and other relevant materials free of charge on the Internet. Cases are selected for addition to the site based on a ranking developed from citation data in historical and constitutional texts."
- AltLaw Beta
- "AltLaw provides the first free, full-text searchable database of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case reports."