Courts & The Law

• Supreme Court. The Cornell University Law School has full-text U.S. Supreme Court decisions available the day of release and full certiorari lists and other orders. The official Supreme Court site has expanded greatly and now has similar documents available.

• Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals. The Emory University School of Law has links to the full-text opinions of all 11 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.

• U.S. District Courts and U.S. Banrkuptcy Courts. Links to all federal courts around the country.

• U.S. District Court for Maryland. Written opinions from the federal district court in Maryland. And U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Maryland.

• Maryland Courts. This site includes selected cases from the Maryland Court of Appeals and the Maryland Court of Special Appeals dating back to 1992 and other state-specific law information.

• Federal Laws and Regulations. The National Archives and Records Administration provides full text of the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Public Laws, presidential orders and other federal legal sources.

• West's Legal  Directory. West's Legal Directory contains profiles of more than 800,000 U.S. law firms and attorneys. It is searchable by name, state, town, type of law, college attended and other factors.

• FindLaw. FindLaw provides links to a wide range of material helpful to legal reporters, from state and local bar associations to state laws.

• FBI Crime Reports. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports are available here.

• Bureau of Justice Statistics. A wide array of federal statistics on crime and justice. The bureau's Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics is made available online via the State University of New York at Albany.

• Criminal Justice Sources. A detailed resource guide linking to a wide array of online data, statistics and expert sources, published by the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture and the Columbia Journalism Review.

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