Federal Resources: Court Opinions

Meta-Indexes for Federal Court Opinions

• U.S. Courts - Federal Court Locator
• Villanova University School of Law Federal Court Locator

U.S. Supreme Court

• Supreme Court of the U.S. - official website
• FindLaw - Supreme Court opinions
• Legal Information Institute (LII) - Supreme Court collection
• FLITE - Federal Legal Information Through Electronics
• The OYEZ Project - unedited oral arguments
• Curaie Datebase - records & briefs of the Supreme Court
• Courts & Law - Washington Post
• The Supreme Court Database - data about decisions
• The Supreme Court - coverage from C-Span

Federal Circuit Courts

• Findlaw - Federal Circuit Court Opinions

Individual Federal Circuit Courts - dates indicate opinion history

• 1st U.S. Circuit
  
• 2nd U.S. Circuit
• 3rd U.S. Circuit (May 1994 - present)
• 4th U.S. Circuit
• 5th U.S. Circuit (1992 - present)
• 6th U.S. Circuit
• 7th U.S. Circuit (Jan. 1993 - present)
• 8th U.S. Circuit (Oct. 1995 - present)
• 9th U.S. Circuit (Jan. 1995 - present)
• 10th U.S. Circuit
• 11th U.S. Circuit
• Federal Circuit
• D.C. Circuit (March 1995-present), provided by  Georgetown University

Federal Rules

• U.S. Courts
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (PDF)
• Federal Rules of Evidence (PDF)
• LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets

Briefs

• American Law Sources Online (ALSO) - Amicus Curiae Briefs
• Office of the Solicitor General
• FindLaw - U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
• U.S. Dept. of Justice - Legal Briefs

Miscellaneous Resources

• Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
• American Judicature Society
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
  
• Federal Courts Law Review
• Federal Judicial Center
• Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives