University Library: Government: Overview

Recommended Resources

Legal Source This link opens in a new window
Use Legal Source to research current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends in the legal world. It contains materials from scholarly law journals and covers legal topics such as criminal justice, international and federal law, organized crime, medical law, environmental law, and human resource law.

Supreme Court Decisions on the Web

FedWorld Supreme Court Decisions
Decisions between 1937-1975
Decisions are available as ASCII text files that can be read on your browser's screen or saved to your hard drive and accessed using most word processor programs.
Supreme Court Search
Search for Supreme Court opinions, transcripts, and more.

Searching for Court Case Information

In addition to the actual cases, you may want to find information about cases that have been published in journals, law reviews, magazines or newspapers. Note: Coverage in these publications may be just about the case and not include the actual court decision.

Search Tips

Don't use v. or vs. because you never know which one was used and whether it was used with or without a period.
For more general information, you can search by company name or person with these two broader terms.
xxxx AND lawsuits
xxxx AND litigation