Federal Appeals Court Decisions
The Federal Court System
Apart from specialized courts, the federal court system comprises the following:
| The Supreme Court of the United States | Most cases are appeals from lower courts. In addition to cases from lower federal courts, cases from state supreme courts which involve a point of federal law may be heard. The court has discretion to decide which cases will be considered. |
| U.S. Courts of Appeals (also called Circuit Courts of Appeals) | Appellate courts which deal with appeals from the district courts in their circuit. |
| U.S. District Courts | Trial courts which deal with violations of federal criminal law, disputes regarding federal laws or treaties, and some cases between residents of different states. |
Court Locator - Maps showing jurisdicitons of the various federal courts
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HeinOnline AcademicHeinOnline Academic is a full-text research collection offering U.S. federal publications such as the U.S. Code, Federal Register, treaties and agreements, U.S. and state appellate court opinions, federal legislative histories, presidential documents; a collection of legal classics; and constitutions of the world
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Supreme Court of the United States1999-present
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Supreme Court Opinions Archive1992-2000
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United States Reports : Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Courtv.502 (1991) to present are available online
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Oyez - Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of LawOyez (pronounced OH-yay)—a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone.
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Legal Information Institute - Supreme Court Collection by topicThe decisions in this collection have all been gathered into topical groups. (Many have been listed under several headings.) Clicking on any listed topic will retrieve all opinions classified under it. Instead of or in addition to using these topical groups you can search the entire collection for decisions using particular key words or phrases.
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CourtListenerA fully-searchable and accessible archive of court data including growing repositories of opinions, oral arguments, judges, and federal filings.
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Public Library of LawFastcase has created the Public Library of Law -- to make it easy to find the law online. Cases from Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, cases back to 1997 for all 50 states, Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states, and regulations, court rules, constitutions.
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FindLawFindLaw's Cases and Codes section contains resources and links for both state and federal laws. This includes resources pertaining to constitutions, statutes, cases and more.
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GoogleSearch for the popular name of the court case. Find the legal citation for the case. In HeinOnline, use the legal citation to search Fastcase for secondary sources from law journals.
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