Source Annotations

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  2. L-N
  3. R-W

ALLLAW

AllLaw attempt provides resources compiled by legal topic and jurisdiction. In addition to providing brief annotations for topical sources, it enables searching select external resources.

AMERICAN LAW SOURCES ONLINE

The American Law Sources Online Federal Government page provides a search engine for all of the Court of Appeals decisions and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel decisions. Searches can be conducted for one or all of the court databases.

AMERICAN LEGAL PUBLISHING ONLINE LIBRARY

American Legal Publishing provides access to codes of ordinances for various cities and towns. The last ordinance for each municipal code is highlighted. Users can choose between framed and unframed versions, and are also able to browse or search the individual codes

BASIC LEGAL CITATION

The Basic Legal Citation site includes access to executive orders, proclamations and in-state citations for Arizona, Illinois, New Mexico, and Texas.

BERNSTEIN’S DICTIONARY OF BANKRUPTCY TERMINOLOGY

The Bernstein’s Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology a dictionary that defines the most common terms associated with bankruptcy.

THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY

The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization conducts investigative research and reports on public policy issues in the United States and around the world. It offers a number of useful resources, including a guide to filing Freedom of Information requests, a database of political committees, a database of information about prosecutor misconduct, and a database of outside interests reported by state legislators. There is also news and commentary on a variety of issues.

CONTENT PAGES FROM LAW REVIEWS & SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

Content Pages from Law Reviews and Scholarly Journals is a keyword-searchable database of tables of contents from more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly publications. This listing of journals is comprised of titles received by the Tarlton Law Library for the previous three months.

CORNELL LEGAL RESEARCH

The Cornell Legal Research site is created by the law librarians at the Cornell Law Library. It is a compilation of United States and International legal resources in various formats. It is topical and jurisdictional with citations to research tools and direct links.

E-CODES

General Code Publishers offers numerous municipal codes from cities and counties in the United States, most of which are in the northeastern part of the county.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH LEGISLATION DATABASE

The National Conference of State Legislatures offers the Environmental Health Legislation Database for finding legislation and current law on environmental health issues from all 50 states. Coverage extends back to 2000 and topics include indoor air quality, pesticides, lead, asbestos and others. Users may search by keyword for information about the state, bill number, sponsor, status, date of last action and description.

EVERYBODY’S LEGAL GLOSSARY

Everybody’s Legal Glossary contains plain English definitions for hundreds of legal terms.

EXPERT’S PAGE

Expert’s Page enables users to locate an expert witness or consultant. This service links attorneys, law firms and legal professionals to thousands of expert witnesses. The experts are searchable by subject area or name.

FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals site provides access to court opinions, rules and forms, calendars and dispositions, and court information.

FEDERAL COURT LOCATOR

The Federal Court Locator tool is maintained by Villanova assists researchers looking for the opinions of the various state courts. 

FEDERAL JUDICIARY

The Federal Judiciary provides links to all circuit courts and other federal courts. It serves as a source of information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.

FEDERAL REGISTER INDEX

The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. It is published by the Office of the Federal Register and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). It is updated daily by 6 a.m. and is published Monday through Friday, with the exception of Federal holidays. GPO Access contains Federal Register volumes from 1994 to the present. Documents are available in Summary, PDF, ASCII text, or HTML format. HTML documents are available from 2000 forward and provide hypertext links to Web sites mentioned in the document.

FINDLAW

The FindLaw site has access to thousands of legal sites, cases, forms, law reviews, law schools, bars and associations, etc. for the general public, students, legal professionals, businesses, and corporate counsels. It is also the highest trafficked legal website. The site was started in 1996 by attorneys Timothy Stanley and Stacy Sten for a North California Law Librarians workshop. It provides full-text library of case law, and a variety of communication forums. 

FIRSTGOV

FirstGov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information. Users may search millions of web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Most of which are not available on commercial websites. FirstGov has the most comprehensive search of government anywhere on the Internet.

FULL-TEXT STATE STATUTES & LEGISLATION

This guide points researchers to sources of full-text state laws and legislation on the Internet. It covers statutes, constitutions, session laws, legislation, and administrative regulations. It happens to include access to many non-authoritative sources.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER - LEGAL EXPLORER

The Legal Explorer offers a map of the states covered by each circuit. Each of which is hypertext linked to each circuit court opinion site.

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS LIBRARY

The Government Publications Library consists of over five million items including over 10,000 current serials. It collects publications from the United States government, state governments, foreign governments, and international governmental organizations.

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY - META-INDEX FOR U.S. LEGAL RESEARCH

This site contains searchable legal indexes. It also offers links to judicial opinions, legislation, federal regulation and other resources.

HEALTH PROMOTION STATE LEGISLATION & STATUTES DATABASE

The National Conference of State Legislatures provides this database for finding legislation and current law on health issues from all 50 states. The database covers newly introduced legislation and enacted laws during 2003. Topics include chronic disease, cigarette excise tax, food tax, nutrition, obesity, physical education, tobacco and more. Users can search by keyword or other criteria. The information provided includes the state, bill number, sponsor, status and description.

HIEROS GAMOS

Hieros Gamos contains information about thousands of legal organizations divided into several directories: bar associations, associated services, dispute resolution, legal associations, vendors, legal education, government sites, online services, publishers, law firms, and law sites. The information in Hieros Gamos can be accessed by both search utilities and menus.

INTERNET LEGAL RESEARCH GROUP

The Internet Legal Research Group allows free access to more than 1750 legal forms that correspond with laws specific to each state. The site grants the user the ability to link to the 250 largest law firms in the United States. It is indexed according to topic: Legal Profession, Academia, Legal Research, and Attorney Referral Network.