Comp Gov: Supreme Court: Research Resources

Databases

Websites

• OYEZ Supreme Court Cases Project

  A Supreme Court Database of oral arguments. "The OYEZ Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work.

• JUSTIA U.S. Supreme Court Center

  Database of court cases.  Includes useful summaries of arguments.  

  • How does a case make it to the supreme court? Read: Stages of a Supreme Court Case

• Cornell Supreme Court Cases

  Cornell University Legal Information Institute: 1790 to Present

• ACLU Supreme Court Cases

For current or recent cases only.  Includes summaries of cases, analysis and links to legal documents

• FindLaw

  Beyond the full text of all Supreme Court cases from 1893 to the present, this database provides links to citations from previous decisions and annotations by the Congressional Research Service.

• First Amendment Center

  Founded by John Seigenthaler, former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. It is now associated with the Freedom Forum and the Newseum. Their offices are located at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Cases beginning in 2000.

• Supreme Court of the United States

  Official Supreme Court website

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