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PAGE CONTENTS:    General Sites  |  Courts & Caselaw  |  Statutory & Legislative Resources  |  Executive & Administrative Resources

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General Sites

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Pages dedicated to federal law and U.S. government research generally

• American Law Sources Online (ALSO!) - U.S. Law -Federal Government - Sources
• Derecho Org USA (sólo enlaces de los Estados Unidos)
  
• FedLaw
  
• FirstGov (Official Web Portal of the U.S. Government)
  
• Government INFOMINE (From the Library of the University of California, Riverside)
  
• GPO Access (Search numerous databases of government publications provided by the Government Printing Office)
  
• Guide to Law Online: United States (From the Law Library of Congress)
  
• FindLaw: Federal Resources
  
• LawRunner: A Legal Research Tool (From ILRG)
  
• Legal Information Institute - Law By Source - Federal Law Collection (From Cornell Law School)
  
• United States Government Manual (From the Government Printing Office and the National Archives and Records Administration)
  
• See Also: The commercial indexes & databases on our Indexes & Databases page.
  

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Courts & Caselaw

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Links to sites dedicated to federal courts and federal caselaw

General U.S. Court Sites:

• Directory of Electronic Public Access Services to Automated Information in the United States Federal Courts (From the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
  
• Federal Courts Finder (From Emory Law Library)
  
• Federal Court Locator (From CILP)
  
• The Federal Judicial Center Homepage
  
  • History of the Federal Judiciary (Multiple databases of biographical and historical info on the federal judiciary)
• FindLaw: Cases and Codes
  
• U.S. Courts -- The Federal Judiciary (From the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
  
• U.S. Sentencing Commission
  

Recent Judicial Nominations and Appointments:

• Federal Judicial Nominations (From the Career Development Office & the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School)
  
• Status of Article III Judicial Nominations (From the United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary)
  

U.S. Supreme Court

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• Supreme Court of the United States (The official Supreme Court web site; includes calendars, schedules, rules, opinions for the present term, and other information)
  

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• FindLaw: U.S. Supreme Court Opinions (Opinions from 1893-Present)
  
• FindLaw: Supreme Court Center (Includes calendar, docket, briefs, orders, topical case index, rules, etc.)
  
• LII: Supreme Court Collection (Opinions from 1990-Present and select historical decisions; court calendar and schedule of oral arguments; from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School)
  
• Willamette Law Online: U.S. Supreme Court (Summaries of pending and decided Supreme Court cases from 1997-Present)
  
• Oyez -- U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia (Audio of oral arguments and assorted news & info on Supreme Court cases and activities)
  
• LII Bulletin (Free subscription email service for receiving syllabi of recently decided Supreme Court cases)
  
• Government Briefs (Briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court by the Office of the Solicitor General)
  

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

• Official 11th Circuit Site (Opinions from 1994-Present)
  
• Emory University (Opinions from Nov. 1994-Present)
  
• FindLaw (Opinions from Dec. 1994-Present)
  

Other U.S. Circuit Courts

• Federal Courts Finder (From Emory Law Library)
  
• Federal Court Locator (From CILP)
  
• FindLaw: Case Law: U.S. Circuit Courts
  
• U.S. Courts -- The Federal Judiciary: Links (From the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
  

U.S. District Courts:

• Middle District of Alabama (Local rules, standing orders, magistrate judge procedures, etc.)
  
• Northern District of Alabama (Local rules, court calendar, directory, search for filings)
  
• Southern District of Alabama (Location, local rules, contact information, employment information)
  
• FindLaw: Laws: Federal District Courts
  
• U.S. Courts -- The Federal Judiciary: Links (From the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
  
• Federal District-Court Civil Trials (A database of statistical data on civil trials in federal district courts)
  

U.S. Bankruptcy Courts:

• Middle District of Alabama (Contact information, announcements, dockets, orders, opinions)
  
• Northern District of Alabama (Local rules, calendars, news, opinions, contact information)
  
• Southern District of Alabama (Local rules, contact information, calendar, fees, notices, dockets, opinions)
  
• FindLaw: Laws: Bankruptcy Decisions
  

Court Rules:

• Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (1996) (Includes 5th Circuit local rules; from the U.S. Circuit Court for the 5th Circuit)
  
• Fedral Rules of Civil Procedure (1998) (From LII at Cornell)
  
• Federal Rules of Evidence (2000) (From LII at Cornell)
  
• Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States (1999) (From LII at Cornell)
  
• Eleventh Circuit Rules and Internal Operating Procedures (From the U.S. Circuit Court for the 11th Circuit)
  
• For other federal and state court local rules, see LLRX Court Rules, Forms & Dockets, from LLRX: Law Library Resource Xchange.
  

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Statutory Law
& Legislative
Resources

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Links to federal legislative branch resources

General Sites:

• U.S. House of Representatives
  
• U.S. Senate
  
• Library of Congress
  
• THOMAS - Legislative Information on the Internet (A comprehensive site for current and historical legislative information from the Library of Congress)
  
• Legislative Databases from GPO Access
  
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory - Legislative Branch (A directory of legislative branch agencies on the Web; from LSU Libraries)
  
  
• See Also: The commercial indexes & databases on our Indexes & Databases page.
  

U.S. Constitution:

• U.S. Founding Documents (From Emory University School of Law)
  
• U.S. Constitution with Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States (From FindLaw)
  
• Constitución de los Estados Unidos de América, 1787 (From Base de Datos Políticos de las Américas, Georgetown University)
  
• The Constitution of the United States (From the Library of Congress)
  

U.S. Code:

• United States Code from LII at Cornell (Browse or find by title and/or section, search, or find through popular names table)
  
• The U.S. House of Representatives Law Revision Counsel (Search U.S. Code, view U.S. Code Classification Tables, download Code titles)
  
• Popular Names Table (From LII at Cornell)
  
• GPO Access (From the Government Printing Office)
  

Public Laws:

• THOMAS: Browse Public Laws in the 108th Congress (Current Congress; links to earlier Congresses; from the Library of Congress)
  
• GPO Access (Includes Public Laws from the 104th Congress [1996-97] - Present; from the Government Printing Office)
  

Bills and Bill Status Information:

• THOMAS: Search Full Text of Bills - 108th Congress (Search by word or by bill number, or browse by bill number or type; links to earlier Congresses; from the Library of Congress)
  
• THOMAS: Search Bill Summary and Status - 108th Congress (Numerous search options, results link to full text of bills; links to earlier Congresses; from the Library of congress)
  
• GPO Access (Includes Bills from the 103rd Congress [1995-96] - Present; from the Government Printing Office)
  

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Executive and
Independent Agencies &
Administrative Resources

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Links to federal executive branch and independent agency resources and administrative law materials

Presidential Materials

• The American Presidency Project (Executive orders, proclamations, letters, speeches, election data, etc.; from UC Santa Barbara)
  
• Search Executive Orders (Includes orders from 1993 - Present; from NARA)
  
• Executive Orders Disposition Tables (from NARA)
  
• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (Search by keywords; includes documents from 1993 - Present; from GPO Access)
  
• Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders (Access by table of contents, disposition tables, or subject index; includes documents from April 13, 1945 - January 20, 1989; from NARA)
  

Selective List of Government Agencies

• White House Web Site
  
• Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  
• Department of Commerce
  
• Department of Education
  
• Department of Health and Human Services
  
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  
• Department of Justice
  
  • Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
    
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
    
  • Government Briefs (Briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court by the Office of the Solicitor General)
    
  • Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
• Treasury Department
  
  • Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
    
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
  
• Federal Reserve Board
  
• Federal Trade Commission
  
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
  
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
  
• Social Security Administration (SSA)
  
• For other government agencies, see LSU Libraries' U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory.
  

Code of Federal Regulations
(PLEASE NOTE: Researchers who are not familiar with the CFR should read Updating a Code of Federal Regulations Section, University of Alabama Law Library Research Guide No. 2, before relying on information found in the CFR.)

• Available CFR Titles on GPO Access (Search by keyword, browse by title, or retrieve by citation; includes access to LSA [List of CFR Sections Affected])
  
• Code of Federal Regulations (From LII; browse by "detailed table of contents," retrieve by citation, or search index of section headings)
  
  
• See Also: The commercial indexes & databases on our Indexes & Databases page.
  

Federal Register

• 1994-Present Federal Register (From GPO Access; browse by page, search individual sections or full text; tables of contents available for 1998-Present)
  
• See Also: The commercial indexes & databases on our Indexes & Databases page.
  

Budget of the United States Government

• Office of Management and Budget - Budget of the United States Government (Search, view, or download budget documents; includes links to prior years' budgets)
  

Administrative Decisions & Other Actions

• Federal Administrative Decisions and Other Actions (A directory of federal agency decisions on the web, from the University of Virgina Library)
  
• U.S. Federal Administrative Decisions (A directory of federal agency decisions on the web, from Rutgers University Libraries)