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Law and Legal Information
Online Resources: Law and Legal Information
- Guide to Law Online – prepared by the US Law Library of Congress
- How a Bill Becomes a Law in New Jersey
- How Our Laws Are Made
- The Legislative Process – Tying It All Together
LAW SEARCH ENGINES, DRECTORIES AND DATABASES
- Findlaw
- LawCrawler
- Legal Information Institute, LII: Cornell Law School
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe – includes legal news and articles from law reviews, federal and state case law, etc. in full-text.
- Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
FEDERAL LAW
Legislative: Bills, Statutes, Codes
- Congressional Bills, House Bills, Senate Bills – Bills from the 103rd Congress (1993) to the present.
- United States Code – Codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States (revised every 6 years with annual supplements)
- U. S. Code Table of Popular Names
- United States Statutes at Large, Public Laws, Session Laws, Slip Laws – Laws enacted during the 104th Congress (1995) to the present.
Regulatory
Judicial: Court Cases and Decisions
- US Courts: The Federal Judiciary – An overview of the federal courts.
United States Supreme Court
- GovInfo FLITE – Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975.
- Legal Information Institute, LII – Supreme Court Collection (Cornell University): Selected Historic Decisions of the US Supreme Court.
- Supreme Court of the United States – An overview of the Supreme Court, recent opinions, oral arguments, etc.
- United States Reports – Decisions of the United States Supreme Court, Volume 502 (1991)- Includes bound volumes and current slip opinions
Other Federal Courts
- US Court of Appeals (Circuit Courts)
- US District and Bankruptcy Courts
- US Tax Court
- US Court of Federal Claims
- US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
- US Court of International Trade
NEW JERSEY LAW
Legislative: Bills, Statutes, Codes
- Bills – Assembly Bills, Senate Bills 1996 to the present.
- Laws of New Jersey – Chapter Laws, 1996 to the present.
- New Jersey Statutes – A compilation of the most current official text of the permanent and general statutes of New Jersey. To locate the link to the New Jersey Statutes database, scroll down the page to Laws and Constitution and select Statutes.
Regulatory:
- The New Jersey Administrative Code and The New Jersey Register are not available online. Some New Jersey departments may publish portions of the regulations.
State Government (click here)
- The New Jersey Administrative Code – Education Title 6 and Title 6A
Judicial:
- Decisions of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey
- New Jersey Administrative Law Decisions
- New Jersey Courts Overview
- Opinions of the New Jersey Courts -Rutgers Law School – Camden.
New Jersey Supreme Court (March 1994 to the present)
Appellate Division (September 1995 to the present)
New Jersey Tax Court (September 1995 to the present) - Rules Governing the Courts of the State of New Jersey