See also Law and Colorado; for basics see Legal Resources

Judicial Power

For CC users only use A-Z database list for Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis) - primary and secondary material for federal and state (high courts) case law

Federal

Federal Judiciary - official sites of all federal courts
History of the Federal Judiciary - biograsphies of all federal judges 1789-present; courts and landmark legislation pertaining to the judiciary
Federal Judicial Center - biographies of federal judges since 1789 and histories of the courts

Opinions/Decisions

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Courts - court links, library, etc.
(Official) U.S. Supreme Court page - opinions (see below), Journal, Dockets, oral arguments, calendar, and schedules, and information (rules, bar admission forms and instructions, guides, special notices and press releases)

Opinons/Decisions

Supreme Court Justice Rulings SCOTUSblog has announced the release of a new statpack (9 page pdf) that shows the breakdown of how each Supreme Court Justice has ruled at the quartermark of the term; the idea is that these figures reflect a general, if imperfect, measurement of how often each Justice is presumably pleased with the outcome of the Court’s decisions.

Colorado Courts

Colorado Courts - information and links to all the Colorado courts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit - information, calendar, etc.
Colorado Springs Municipal Court - information and links

Opinons/Decisions

International Courts

International Court of Justice - information and full text decisions; see the World Court Digest for views on judgments of the ICJ
Court of Justice of the European Communities - case-law, proceedings and publications
Project on International Courts and Tribunals - ECHR, ICC, ICTY, WTO and more
World Courts - history and decisions of various courts
Permanent Court of Arbitration - official website

Foriegn Country Courts

International Court Web Sites
Global Courts - Supreme Court decisions for countries
World Courts & Case-Law
Law Courts

Learning About

Federal Judicial Center - education and research agency for the federal court system; how federal courts are organized; history of the Supreme Court, courts of appeals, district courts, circuit courts, and others; teaching units about notable federal trials {Sedition Act trials, Aaron Burr treason trial, Amistad, Chinese exclusion and others} (Federal Judicial Center)
Federal Court Concepts - introduction to the U.S. federal court system - describes the structure of the federal courts, the kinds of cases that federal courts hear, the Supreme Court, & how federal court decisions can be used in research.

Select Cases

  • Case law and also available here - Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754; public domain.
  • The Sleepy Lagoon Case: Constitutional Rights and the Struggle for Democracy - account of "the notorious trial that took place in Los Angeles in 1942, "which concerned the murder of a Mexican American man by alleged "zoot suiters." Topics include wartime hysteria, the accused, the defense committee and the appeal, and the overturning of the conviction. Includes images of primary source documents and photographs. (Department of Special Collections, UCLA)
  • With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty - presents more than 80 photos, letters, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, music, & films related to the Supreme Court's 1954 decision that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The online exhibit is organized in three parts: previous court cases that laid the ground work for the decision, the argument underpinning the ruling & the public's initial response, & the aftermath.
  • Famous Trials including Andrew Johnson & Clinton impeachments, Oklahoma Boming, Mississippi Burning, Lincoln Conspiracy, etc. (University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Law)
  • \"Brown v. Board: Five Communities That Changed America - describes 5 cases the Supreme Court agreed to hear in 1952 under one title: "Brown v. Board of Education;" each contested the "separate but equal" doctrine of the Court's 1896 "Plessy v. Ferguson" decision, which by the 1950s had resulted in 17 states requiring racial segregation in public schools & 4 states allowing it.
(NPS,TwHP,NRHP)

Misc.

Project Posner - decisions of Judge Posner, opinions from 1981 to 2006; it will not contain the most recent opinions


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