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Ask Bill provides links to legal information on
the Internet for legal researchers in the Seventh Circuit, which
includes the states of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. The sites
have been reviewed, selected and annotated. Official government
sites have been selected wherever possible.
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Federal Supreme Court
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Official web site. Includes: Docket, bar admission, oral argument transcripts posted same day argument is heard, court rules, argument calendars, case handling guides, orders, historical materials, including a case citation finder, and other public information. Full text opinions are available as are the bound volumes of United States Reports starting with 502 U.S. (U.S. Supreme Court)
- Opinions
- Docket
Provides case information for decided and pending litigation in the current and the prior term.
- Orders and Journal
- Case Handling Guides
- Guide to Filing Paid Cases, Guide to In Forma pauperis Cases, Guide for Counsel in Cases to Be Argued.
- Dates of Supreme Court Decisions and Arguments United States Reports Volumes 2 - 107 (1791 - 1882)
Prepared by Anne Ashmore of the Supreme Court Library. This 168-page document is based on research in the handwritten Engrossed Minutes and the
handwritten Engrossed Docket. By volume and page number, it lists case names and the dates of argument and decision.
- Granted and Noted List - Cases to be Argued - October Term 2007
- Oral Arguments
Beginning with the October 2006 Term, the transcripts of oral arguments are available on the same day an argument is heard by the Court. Transcripts of oral arguments are archived on the website beginning with the Octuber 2000 Term. Transcripts prior to the 2000 Term are maintained in the Court's Library.
- Questions Presented
Review the Questions Presented in granted and noted cases by clicking on the hyperlink located within the Docket's case summary information for a particular case. For example, access the docket information for case number 02-1348, click the hyperlink to link to a pdf file setting forth the Question(s) Presented in the case.
- Special Master Reports
Special Masters are individuals named by the Court to conduct preliminary reviews of Original cases the Court has allowed to be filed before it. Original cases - cases tried only in the Supreme Court - usually involve disputes between states. The Court will add future reports as they are issued. Past reports have been and will continue to be posted as well.
- Where to Find Briefs of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
- Solicitor General - Government Briefs (USDOJ)
- The Supreme Court Opinion Announcements hotline, a recorded message, is 202-479-3360.
- Supreme Court Center
- Tab system for Cases, Docket, Decisions, Orders, briefs, Rules, Guides and Schedule. (Findlaw)
- Briefs
- All briefs filed in each case the court has agreed to hear, including amicus briefs, since October 1999 term. In alphabetical order by first-party case name. (Findlaw)
- Case Index
- Organizes pending cases by topic and links to the case at the lower court level.
- Decisions of the Current Term
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- Docket
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- Supreme
Court Collection
- Decisions and petitions
for cert granted or denied may be posted here more quickly than on the Official
Supreme Court site. (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
- Supreme
Court Decisions
- Vol. 150-Current U.S.
Reports, 1893-Current. browse by year or U.S. Reports volume number. Search
by citation, case title or full text. (Findlaw)
- Supreme
Court Preview
- Cases
at a Glance offers an advance look at the issues raised in every case
slated for oral argument. Continuously updated links to the full text of
the Court's decisions as soon as they are handed down. Cases at a Glance
for previous terms are also available. Merit
briefs are also online, accessible by case name or argument date. (ABA)
- U.S. Supreme Court Center: Beta
- Full run of U.S. Supreme Court Cases from v.1 - 545+. Browse by volume or year. Search by citation, party name or words and phrases. Also links to blogs on the Supreme Court and constitutional rights and to other Supreme Court resources. (Justia and Oyez and Forms WorkFlow)
- Appellate.Net
Docket Reports
- Supreme Court Docket Reports in cases of interest to the business community, prepared by Mayer, brown, Rowe and Maw. (MbrM)
- curiae.law.yale.edu:
United States Supreme Court Records and briefs
- The Curiae digitization
project provides Supreme Court records and briefs and other relevant materials
free of charge on the Internet. Cases are selected for addition to the site
based on a ranking developed from citation data in historical and constitutional
texts. Cases are in the process of being entered into the site. (Yale U.
Law School)
- On
the Docket
- Continually updated
coverage of the cases pending before the United States Supreme Court. Coverage
includes a current listing of the cases pending before the Court, a story
on each case, additional feature stories on selected cases, links to web
sites relevant to the cases, information provided by attorneys and parties
in the cases, the dates for scheduled oral arguments, the questions presented
to the Court, referrals to the attorneys in the cases, and citations for
the lower court opinions. Coverage dates back to the 1998-99 term. (Northwestern
U. Medill School of Journalism)
- Oyez : U.S. Supreme Court Media
- Gradually creating a public, searchable archive of all audio recorded in the Court since 1955. Presently covers all audio since 1990 and selected audio before 1990. Includes summaries of over 1000 Supreme Court opinions, biographical materials on all the justices, and a virtual reality tour of the Supreme Court building. Recently added MP3 format audio. (Jerry Goldman/Northwestern U.)
- Supreme Court: Jurist Legal News & Research
- Links to Supreme Court related information, including biographies of the justices, recent commentary, documents and video. (Jurist: The Law Professors' Network)
- Supreme Court Nomination Hearings: 1971 - Forward
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary. (GPO)
- Supreme Court Nominations
- John Roberts, Harriet Miers and Samuel Alito Nomination Collections, Web Resources Relating to Supreme Court Nominations and Supreme Court Nomination Documents: Confirmed and Not Confirmed. (Library of Congress)
- U.S. Supreme Court Justices Database
- This is a multi-user, public database containing a wealth of information on individuals nominated (whether confirmed or not) to the U.S. Supreme Court. Specifically, the Database houses 263 variables, falling roughly into five categories: identifiers, background characteristics and personal attributes, nomination and confirmation, service on the Court, and departures from the bench. (Lee Epstein, Thomas Walker, Nancy Staudt.)
- Web
Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
- Annotated links to
reliable sites for U.S. Supreme Court research. Law librarian Gail Partin
includes the best websites for opinions, case summaries, briefs, oral arguments,
and court docket and calendar information. Also provides links to sites
about the justices (past and present), court practice, court history and
court administration. (llrx.com)
Sites with Free Case Law based on Public Resource.org files
- These sites are using data from the Public.Resource.org which has made available a large database of federal cases at Bulk.Resource.Org
- AltLaw: The Free Legal Search Engine
- Full text search of all U.S. Supreme Court opinions back to 1759. Original court pdf format or plain text. West Reporter Citations (i.e., 23 F.3d 178) not available for recent cases. As of yet, no state or district court cases. AltLaw has full text search with advanced search options including proximity search, Boolean, wildcards, etc. Updated daily.(AltLaw)
- Justia: US Supreme Court Cases & Opinions Beta
- All US Supreme Court Cases from v.1 to Current. Has a full text search function. Also browse by volume, year and by recent opinions. (Justia)
- Public Library of Law: PLOL Beta
- Said to be the largest free legal search engine online. All U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1757 to present and Courts of Appeals cases from 1950 to present; State appellate cases from all 50 states back to 1997; Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states, either online or via links; also links to Code of Federal Regulations, state regulations, court rules, and constitutions. (PLOL)
- PreCYdent Search Engine
- This alpha version, in early development, contains searchable U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals cases as well as Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the U.S. Code. (PreCydent, Inc.)
- Search the Federal Reporter (Second & Third Series) and U.S. Reports
- A beta full text search engine, one of many that will probably be appearing as developers begin to work with the Public.Resource.org database.
Federal Court of
Appeals Decisions
- Seventh
Circuit Decisions
- Official Seventh Circuit
Internet site, including Judicial opinions. briefs filed with the court
beginning in 2001 are also online. (Seventh Circuit Internet)
- Seventh
Circuit Citation Lists
- If you know the Seventh
Circuit case name, docket number, or date of decision, use these lists to
locate the Federal Reporter citation for cases decided from 1997 to the
present. Updated monthly by Cary Biskupic, Library Technician at the Library
of the U.S. Courts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Seventh Circuit Library)
- Seventh Circuit Review
- Seventh Circuit Review is a semiannual, online journal dedicated to the analysis of recent opinions published by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The Seventh Circuit Review seeks to keep the legal community abreast of developments and trends within the Seventh Circuit and their impact on contemporary jurisprudence. (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
Court of Appeals Case Searches
- U.S. Courts - Court Links
- Map linking to all Circuit Court of Appeals, District Court, Bankruptcy Court, Probation and Pretrial Services Offices. Searchable by city and state, zip code, county and state, and area code. (U.S. Courts)
- Search
All U.S. Court of Appeals Opinions on the Internet
- The collections of
judicial opinions which this search engine searches are not maintained by
the LII (or any other single institution or organization). As a result there
is great variation in the extent of the collections from site to site; for
example, the 5th Circuit collection extends back to 1986, whereas it is
unusual for others to go back much further than 1995. File formats, titling
practices, layout, and typography all vary widely and there may be significant
gaps in some collections. Cornell updates the index regularly. The updating
process takes about three days, because of the high volume of data which
must be checked. Very, very recent cases will probably not appear in your
search results. (Cornell)
- Seton Hall Circuit Review - Current Circuit Splits and Cases of First Impression
- Brief summaries of circuit splits identified by a federal court of appeal opinion, organized by civil and criminal matters, then by subject matter. The First Impressions section contains brief summaries organized by circuit. (Seton Hall)
- Split Circuits
- Blog dedicated to tracking developments concerning splits among the federal circuit courts. (Professor A. Benjamin Spencer)
Court of Appeals Decisions
- First
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 2000 - present) (First Circuit)
- First
Circuit Decisions (Nov. 1995 - July 2001) (Emory)
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- Second
Circuit Decisions (? - present) (Second Circuit)
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- Second
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 1996 - present) (Findlaw)
- Third Circuit Decisions(1997 - present) (Third Circuit)
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- Third
Circuit Decisions (May 1994 - present) (Villanova)
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- Fourth
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 1996 - present) (Fourth Circuit)
- Fourth
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 1995 - May 2001) (Emory)
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- Fifth
Circuit Decisions (Apr. 1992 - present) (Fifth Circuit)
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- Sixth
Circuit Decisions (1994 - present) (Sixth Circuit)
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- Sixth
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 1995 - June 1999) (Emory)
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- Seventh
Circuit Decisions (1991 - present) (Seventh Circuit)
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- Eighth
Circuit Decisions (1995 - present) (Eighth Circuit)
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- Ninth
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 1995 - present) (Ninth Circuit)
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- Tenth
Circuit Decisions (Aug. 1995-Oct. 1997) (Emory)
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- Tenth
Circuit Decisions (Oct. 1997 - present) (Washburn)
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- Eleventh
Circuit Decisions (Nov. 1994 - March 2003) (Emory)
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- Eleventh
Circuit Decisions (1994 - present) (Eleventh Circuit)
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- D.C.
Circuit Decisions (Sept. 1997 - present) (D.C. Circuit)
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- D.C.
Circuit Decisions (Feb. 1995 - present) (Georgetown)
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- Federal
Circuit Decisions (Aug. 1995 - Aug. 2001) (Emory)
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- Federal
Circuit Decisions (Aug. 1995 - pesent) (Georgetown)
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- Federal Circuit Decisions (October 2004 - present)(Federal Circuit)
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Sites with Free Case Law based on Public Resource.org files
- These sites are using data from the Public.Resource.org which has made available a large database of federal cases at Bulk.Resource.Org
- AltLaw: The Free Legal Search Engine
- Full text search of court of appeals cases. Opinions coverage, for most Circuits, is limited to the last 20 to 30 years. Most Circuit coverage starts in 1971. Original court pdf format or plain text. West Reporter Citations (i.e., 23 F.3d 178) not available for recent cases. As of yet, no state or district court cases. AltLaw has full text search with advanced search options including proximity search, Boolean, wildcards, etc.) Updated daily.(AltLaw)
- Justia: US Court of Appeals Cases and Opinions Beta
- All US Federal appellate cases since 1950. Has a full text search function. Also browse by series, by Circuit, then year, or by year. (Justia)
- Public Library of Law: PLOL Beta
- Said to be the largest free legal search engine online. All U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1757 to present and Courts of Appeals cases from 1950 to present (F.2d Vol. 178-999 (1950-1995), F.3d Vol. 1-present, (1995-present); State appellate cases from all 50 states back to 1997; Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states, either online or via links; also links to Code of Federal Regulations, state regulations, court rules, and constitutions. (PLOL)
- PreCYdent Search Engine
- This alpha version, in early development, contains searchable U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals cases as well as Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the U.S. Code. (PreCydent, Inc.)
- Search the Federal Reporter (Second & Third Series) and U.S. Reports
- A beta full text search engine, one of many that will probably be appearing as developers begin to work with the Public.Resource.org database.
Federal Courts of Special Jurisdiction
- U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (Jan. 1997 - present)
(Armed Forces Court)
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- U.S.
Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (1989 - present) (Veterans
Claims Court)
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- U.S.
Court of Federal Claims (July 1997 - present) (Court of Federal
Claims)
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- U.S.
Court of International Trade (Jan. 1999 - present) (Int'l Trade
Court)
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- U.S. Tax Court (TC and Memorandum Opinions starting Sept. 25, 1995; Summary Opinions starting Jan. 01, 2001) (Tax Court)
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Federal District Court
- Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
- General information, hearing information on transferred and denied MDLs, rules, pending MDLs, statistics. (JPML)
- Justia Federal District Court Opinions & Orders - BETA
- Database of Federal District Court cases. Justia currently has opinions and orders since 2004.
- Justia Federal District Court Filings & Dockets - BETA
- Database of recently filed Federal District Court civil cases allows users to browse by State, by District within the state, by Nature of Suit, by Party Name, by Judge name, and within a given date range. The database is under development and cases are added daily. Data on each case includes a link to the related docket information on Pacer (accessible via subscription to those outside the court, 8 cents per page) as well as to blog, news and finance and web searches on party names. Justia currently has opinions and orders since 2004.
- Users may also subscribe to RSS feeds in each Type of Lawsuit category in order to track a judge or court's decisions. You can be notified whenever something happens in the case. (Justia)
Federal Bankruptcy
Appellate Panels
- 1st Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
- (1st Circuit)
- 6th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
- (6th Circuit)
- 8th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
- (8th Circuit)
- 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
- (9th Circuit)
- 10th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
- (10th Circuit)
Federal Rules of
Court
- Federal
Rules of Appellate Procedure
- Current as of January 1, 2007. 7th Circuit Local Rules and IOP in html or PDF format. (Seventh
Circuit Internet)
- Federal
Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
- (Cornell)
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Appendix of Forms included. Official House Committee Print. (GPO)
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Appendix of Forms included. (Cornell)
- Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
- Official House Committee Print. (House)
- Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
- (Cornell)
- Federal
Rules of Evidence
- (Supreme Court)
- Rules Governing Section 2254 and Section 2255 Cases
- (House)
- Federal
Rulemaking
- This site provides
access to the national and local rules currently in effect in the federal
courts, as well as background information on the federal rules and the rulemaking
process. All proposed amendments to the rules are posted for your review
and comment and an archive of amendments is also posted. (AOUS)
See this page for:
- Supreme Court Rules
- Present rules were revised on July 17, 2007. The amended rules become effective October 1, 2007. (U.S. Supreme Court)
- U.S.
Tax Court Rules
- Rules in pdf format.
Effective September 20, 2005, with amended rules after that date. (U.S. Tax Court)
Federal Courts of Seventh Circuit
Internet Sites
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Seventh Circuit Library
Illinois Central Bankruptcy Court
Illinois Central District Court
Illinois Northern Bankruptcy Court
Illinois Northern District Court
Illinois Southern Bankruptcy Court
Illinois Southern District Court
Illinois Southern Probation Office
Indiana Northern Bankruptcy Court
Indiana Northern District Court
Indiana Northern Probation Office
Indiana Southern Bankruptcy Court
Indiana Southern District Court
Indiana Southern Probation Office
Wisconsin Eastern Bankruptcy Court
Wisconsin Eastern District Court
Wisconsin Eastern Probation Office
Wisconsin Western Bankruptcy Court
Wisconsin Western District Court
Federal Court Local
Rules
- Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals(Seventh Circuit)
- For district and bankruptcy courts that may not be included in the lists below, go to the home page for that court. Links to all federal court home pages are listed in the Federal Judiciary Home Pages section below. (AOUS)
- Local
Rules - U.S. Courts of Appeals
- (AOUS)
- Local
Rules - U.S. District Courts
- (AOUS)
- Local
Rules - U.S. Bankruptcy Courts
- (AOUS)
- Court
Rules, Forms and Dockets
- Comprehensive listing
of Federal and State court rules, forms and dockets available on the Internet,
compiled by the editors at Law Librarian's Resource Xchange. (LLRX)
Federal Judiciary
Codes of Conduct
- Codes
of Conduct for United States Judges
- (AOUS)
- Codes
of Conduct for Judicial Employees
- (AOUS)
- Published Advisory Opinions
- (AOUS)
- Judicial Misconduct and Disability
- Includes links to each circuit for rules and forms and also links to Justice Breyer's Report to the Chief Justice on Implementation of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980. (AOUS)
- National Rules for Judicial Conduct and Judicial Disability Proceedings
- News release announcing, and linking to, the first-ever binding, nationwide set of rules for handling conduct and disability complaints against federal judges. Adopted March 11, 2008. (AOUS)
- Judicial Council of the Seventh Circuit: In Re Complaint Against a Judicial Officer
- Includes Judicial misconduct or disability complaint form, Judicial misconduct or disability complaint rules (as adopted March 11, 2008) and Decisions. (Seventh Circuit Internet).
- Standards for Professional Conduct within the Seventh Federal Judicial Circuit
- In html format. (Seventh Circuit Internet).
Federal Judiciary
Home Pages
- Federal
Judiciary Homepage
- This
is the Judiciary Internet homepage. Includes About the U.S. Courts, Newsroom,
Library of publications and statistical reports, Court Links, Frequently Asked
Questions, Employment Opportunities, and a Search feature. (AOUS)
- Federal
Judicial Center
- Site includes many
Publications available for downloading in PDF format as well as downloadable
educational programs. Examples of the FJC publications available online
include the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence and the Manual for Complex
Litigation.
- The Federal
Judicial History section gives the legislative history of the Supreme
Court, the Circuit Courts, the Courts of Appeals and the District Courts,
as well as biographical information about each presidentially appointed
judge on the courts since 1789. There are also historical documents related
to the judicial branch of government. Using the search boxes you may pull
up the legislative history and judicial biographies of the Court of Appeals
or District Judges in each circuit or state.
The Federal Judges Biographical Database provides information about all judges who have served on the U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the Supreme Court and other life-tenured courts since 1789. To view a judge's biographical entry, type in the judge's name (Last name, First name) or use the alphabetical index.
Use The Federal Judges Biographical Database to construct research questions regarding groups of judges. This section allows users to create customized lists of judges based on multiple categories, including nominating president, type of court, dates of service, and demographic groups.
- Historic Federal Courthouses offers access to images of over 600 historic federal courthouses and other public buildings that have served as the meeting places of federal courts. Captions indicate the date of the image and the name of the building at that time. Each entry then lists the date of the building’s completion; the supervising architect or, in the case of commissioned designs, the private architect; the dates that various federal courts used the building; the building’s fate or current use; and a citation indicating the source of the original photograph.
- Inside
the Federal Courts is available to help federal employees understand how the federal courts
work.
- PACER
Service Center
- The PACER Service
Center is the Federal Judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and
technical support center for electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy,
and Appellate court records. There is information about PACER, registration
information, and links to the individual court PACER systems at Public
Access to Court Electronic Records.
- The U.S. Party/Case Index recently added an additional search feature for finding bankruptcy filings. You may now search using the last 4 digits of a Social Security number and the first three letters of the last name. (AOUS)
- The Chicago Headquarters Library of the U.S. Courts for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is participating in a pilot project which offers free access to PACER when accessed at the Chicago location. The 8 cents per page fee is waived for all users when accessed from the pilot library.
- U.S.
Sentencing Commission
- Includes Sentencing
Guidelines, Federal Sentencing Statistics, Reports to Congress, and Hearing
Testimony.
Federal Pattern Jury
Instructions
- First Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
- 1998 edition. Pdf format. (District Court of Maine)
- First Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
- This is an executable version (Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions.Hlp) providing the ability to automatically create an instruction template suitable for WordPerfect, copy an instruction (including all formatting to WordPerfect, copying a number of instructions (including formatting) to WordPerfect at a time, printing a number of instructions at a time, and a link to updates posted by Judge Hornby and his instructions’ committee. (District of Massachusetts)
- Third Circuit Model Criminal Jury Instructions
- 2004 edition in progress in WordPerfect and pdf. Only the first 2 chapters are posted. (3d Circuit)
- Third Circuit Model Civil Jury Instructions
- 2007 edition in WordPerfect and pdf. (3d Circuit)
- Fifth Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
- 2001 edition in html. Also available as a pdf or a downloadable WordPerfect file. (5th Circuit)
- Fifth Circuit Pattern Civil Jury Instructions
- 2006 edition in pdf. (5th Circuit)
- Sixth Circuit Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions
- 2005 edition. Includes changes made to the 2005 edition. In html, pdf, WordPerfect and Word. The full version can be downloaded in pdf. (6th Circuit)
- Seventh Circuit Pattern Criminal Federal Jury Instructions
- Adopted November 30, 1998. In pdf format. (7th Circuit)
- Seventh Circuit Federal Civil Jury Instructions
- Adopted May 24, 2005. In pdf format. (7th Circuit)
- Seventh Circuit Federal Civil Jury Instructions - Draft Federal Employee Liability Act instructions
- In pdf format. (7th Circuit)
- Seventh Circuit Proposed Pattern Patent Civil Jury Instructions
- Comments will be accepted until April 1, 2008. In pdf format. (7th Circuit)
- Eighth Circuit Manual of Model Criminal Jury Instructions
- 2006 edition as well as Model Death Penalty Jury Instructions. In pdf, WordPerfect and Word formats. (8th Circuit)
- Eighth Circuit Manual of Model Civil Jury Instructions
- 2007 edition. In pdf, WordPerfect and Word formats. (8th Circuit)
- Ninth Circuit Manual of Model Civil Jury Instructions
- 2007 edition. In pdf, WordPerfect, pdf and browseable formats. (9th Circuit)
- Ninth Circuit Manual of Model Criminal Jury Instructions
- 2003 edition. Updated in April 2007. In WordPerfect, pdf and browseable formats. (9th Circuit)
- Ninth Circuit Manual on Jury Trial Procedures
- August 2004 edition. In pdf and browseable formats. (9th Circuit)
- Tenth Circuit Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions
- 2005 edition, updated February 2006. In pdf, WordPerfect and Word formats. (10th Circuit)
- Eleventh Circuit Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions
- 2003 edition. Scroll down to the pattern jury instructions. In pdf and WordPerfect formats. (11th Circuit)
- Eleventh Circuit Civil Pattern Jury Instructions
- 2005 edition. Scroll down to the pattern jury instructions. In pdf and WordPerfect formats. (11th Circuit)
District Court Pattern Jury Instructions
- Illinois - Model Civil Jury Instructions from District Judge Philip G. Reinhard
- (Northern District of Illinois)
- Indiana - Civil Jury Instructions from District Judge Philip P. Simon
- (Northern District of Indiana)
- Indiana - Civil Jury Instructions from Magistrate Judge Roger B. Cosbey
- (Northern District of Indiana)
- Iowa - Jury Instructions Used in Trials Listed by Judge
- Searchable by category, by judge, and by date. (Northern District of Iowa)
- Maine - Judge Hornby's Proposed Civil Jury Instructions
- Proposed instructions for Cases of Employment Discrimination (Disparate Treatment),for Cases of Excessive Force in Violation of the Fourth and Eighth Amendments, for Cases of Railroad Employee Personal Injury and for Cases of Maritime Employee Personal Injury. (District of Maine)
- Maine - Judge Hornby's Updated Revisions to the Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions for the
District Courts of the First Circuit
- (District of Maine)
- New Mexico - Civil and Criminal Jury Instructions for Various Judges
- Click on Judges on the left and then click on individual judges names. Many of them have a "Jury Instructions" section on their pages. (District of New Mexico)
Patent Jury Instructions
- American
Intellectual Property Law Association Model Patent Jury Instructions
- (AIPLA)
- Federal
Circuit Bar Association Model Patent Jury Instructions
- (Federal Circuit Bar
Association)
- Model
Patent Jury Instructions - Sample Jury Instructions from Northern District
of California
- (Northern District
of California)
- Prosecuting Intellectual Property Crimes Manual (Jury Instructions)
- Jury instructions are found in Appendices B - E. (DOJ)
- Seventh Circuit Proposed Pattern Patent Civil Jury Instructions
- Comments will be accepted until April 1, 2008. In pdf format. (7th Circuit)
- Uniform
Jury Instructions for Patent Cases in the United States District Court for
the District of Delaware
- Click on FORMS on
the left to get to jury instructions. In PDF format. (District of Delaware)
- There are also patent instructions in Section 9 of the 5th Circuit Pattern Civil Jury Instructions, as listed above.
Other Pattern Jury Instructions
- Criminal
Tax Manual Jury Instructions
- Jury Instructions are in pdf format in Volume Three. New for 2006. (DOJ)
- North
American Securities Administrators Association Model Jury Instructions
- In PDF format. (NASAA)
Federal Pro Se Litigants
- Federal
Court Prison Litigation Project Revised Handbook
- Handbook for attorneys
appointed by the United States District Court for the Northern District
of Illinois to represent prisoners in litigation filed pro se. The Illinois
Institute for Community Law, in conjunction with the District Court, has
revised this handbook to provide information regarding correctional policies
and procedures and the substantive and procedural rights of incarcerated
persons. (Northern District of Illinois)
- Filing
a Civil Case Without an Attorney: A Guide for the Pro Se Litigant
- (Northern District
of Illinois)
- Law
Libraries Serving Prisoners
- Temporarily unavailable.
Online version of the print directory compiled by the AALL Standing Committee
on Library Services to Institutionalized Persons. Search for law libraries
by name or location - city, state, or county. (AALL)
- Prisoner
Litigation Handbook
- Scroll down to Other
Documents at the bottom of the page. Download or open as a Microsoft help
file. (Northern District of Illinois)
- Pro
Se Handbook: The Manual for the Litigant Filing Without Counsel
- (District Court of
Idaho.)
- Representing Yourself in Federal Court
- Includes a Pro Se Handbook, other Pro Se Litigants' Resources and Pro Se Forms. (Southern District of Indiana)
Historical American
Documents
- Avalon Project
- Comprehensive collection of digital documents in law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Links to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. Documents range from the Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents to the UN Charter. There is also a collection of Documents on Terrorism.
Keep this site in mind when searching for classic legal titles like the Code of Hammurabi or Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. (Yale)
The Annotated Justinian Code is another classic text, available courtesy of the U. of Wyoming College of Law.
- Documents
from the Constitutional Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789.
- The Continental Congress
broadside Collection (256 titles) and the Constitutional Convention broadside
Collection (21 titles) contain 277 documents relating to the work of Congress
and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts
of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports,
treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and
the Declaration of Independence. Most broadsides are one page in length,
others range from 1 to 28 pages. (Library of Congress)
- A
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates
- This site consists
of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States
of America from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875.
It includes the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-89); the Letters
of Delegates to Congress (1774-89); the Records of the Federal Convention
of 1787, or Farrand's Records, and the Debates in the Several State Conventions
on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787-88), or Elliot's Debates;
the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1875) and the Senate
(1789-1875), including the Senate Executive Journal (1789-1875); the Journal
of William Maclay (1789-91), senator from Pennsylvania in the 1st Congress;
the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1824),
the Register of Debates (1824-37), Congressional Globe (1833-73), and Congressional
Record (1873-75); the Statutes at Large (1789-1875); the American State
Papers (1789-1838); and congressional bills and resolutions for selected
sessions beginning with the 6th Congress (1799) in the House of Representatives
and the 16th Congress (1819) in the Senate. A select number of documents
and reports from the monumental U.S. Congressional Serial Set are available
as well. This online collection houses the records of the U.S. Congress
up to 1875, which includes the first three volumes of the Congressional
Record, published by the Government Printing Office. (Library of Congress)
- Declaration
of Independence
- July 4, 1776. (NARA)
- Federalist
Papers
- Eighty-five essays
written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison between October
1787 and May 1788. (Avalon)
- Constitution of the United States
- Includes Constitution,
Bill of Rights (Amendments 1-10) and Amendments 11-27 to the Constitution.
(NARA)
- Constitution
of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation
- Annotations of Cases Decided by the
Supreme Court of the United States. Senate Document 108-17, the 2002 edition, and 108-19, the 2004 supplement.
Provides an overview, scholarly commentary, cases interpreting each section, and law review articles. Also includes tables of laws held unconstitutional, table of cases and index. The 2002 date for the main edition refers to the date that annotations to the constitution are cut off at, not the date of publication. The earlier 1992 edition and its supplements are also available on this site. (Congressional Research Service. Library of Congress)
- Our Documents
- One hundred milestone documents of American history. The list begins with the Lee Resolution of June 7, 1776 and ends with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (NARA)
- U.S.
Constitution
- Findlaw has taken
the CRS (1992 edition) constitution and divided the document up into smaller
sections for the web, adding hyperlinks to Supreme Court cases cited in
the annotations. (FindLaw)
Federal Legislative
Branch Web Sites
- Government Resources: Links to Congressional Information
- Includes links to
House and Senate sites, individual members, Congressional Directory, information
about Congress and the Capital Building, links to legislative agencies like
GAO and Congressional Budget Office, Links to official and non-official sources for legislative
research, including voting records, newslinks, partisan sites. (Library
of Congress)
- Guide to House and Senate Members
- A single point of access for Member information from several different official sources. Both congressional offices and the public will be able to:
- Access data concerning House and Senate Members from various publications including: the Congressional Pictorial Directory, Congressional Biographical Directory, and, in the near future, the Congressional Directory.
- Search for and retrieve individual Members by name, district, hometown, or groups of Members by state, party affiliation, or number of terms.
- Link to individual Member's corresponding information in the Biographical Directory maintained by the House and Senate.(GPO)
- U.S.
House of Representatives Home Page
- Includes House Offices - searchable by member name, map/state name, Committee Offices, Leadership Offices, Other House Organizations, Commissions, and Task Forces; Legislative Resources - Schedules for the week, Committee Hearings, and the current Calendar, Roll Call Votes; Current Events - House Operating Status, This Week on the House Floor, and House Calendar; Constituent Services - Find Your Representative by ZIP; Education Resources and Tourism Information. (House)
- U.S. Senate Home Page
- Primary areas available directly from the homepage are Senators, Committees, Legislation & Records, Art & History, Visitors and Reference. In addition to information about each senator and committee, the site also contains a complete floor schedule for the Senate,
along with recent votes, nominations lists and links to hearings. (Senate)
Committee Home Pages
- House
Committee Home Page
- Links to each committee.
(House)
- Senate
Committee Home Page
- Links to each committee.
(Senate)
Judiciary Committees
- House
Judiciary Committee
- Includes information
about members, subcommittee members, committee documents, hearings testimony,
business meetings and markups. (House)
- Senate
Judiciary Committee
- Includes information
about members, subcommittee members, jurisdiction, rules, hearings schedules
including selected prepared testimony, a list of printed hearings (no links),
links to Senate reports and bill text of legislation referred to the Senate
Judiciary committee. (Senate)
Biographical Information about Members of Congress
Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present
Enter name, position
or state to retrieve biographical information about members of Congress. (House)
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005Download the entire file as a ZIP file or download pdf sections. (GPO)
Congressional DirectoryDirectories for the 104th (1995-96) Congress forward. There is a Quick Search feature, but there is also a browse the Directory feature that allows you to pull up information arranged by State with listings of members of Congress, biographies, office listings, and district descriptions. (GPO)
Congressional
Pictorial Directory
Members of Congress
with biographies and pictures. (GPO)
U.S. Senate Virtual Reference Desk - BiographiesBiographies of current and former Senators and Representatives as well as Senate spouses. (U.S. Senate)
Federal Legislative
Materials
- THOMAS: In the Spirit of Thomas Jefferson, Legislative Information from the Library of Congress
- Searchable database of the legislative activities and proceedings of the U.S. Congress from the Library of Congress. Left-side menu provides direct links to Bills, Resolutions, Congressional Record, Presidential Nominations, Treaties, Committee Reports, and links to Government Resources. Middle column offers: ability to find legislation in current Congress - search bill text and browse bills by sponsor. Also search multiple previous Congresses, search appropriations bills. Right-side menu covers current activity - yesterday in Congress, latest Congressional Record Daily Digest, connection to the last seven days of House floor proceedings, Congressional Schedules and Calendars.
Includes: Bill summary & status: 1973-Current; Bill text: 1989-90 to Current; House Roll Call votes; Senate Roll Call Votes, Public Laws by law number 1973-current; Congressional Record Text search: 1989-Current; Congressional Record Index: 1995-Current; Committee Reports: Congress: 1995-Current.
THOMAS has posted several new features on their website. Users may search all of THOMAS by keyword or bill number, may browse current legislation by sponsor or topic and may engage in a guided search. (Library of Congress)
Guides to Federal Legislative History Research
- Federal
Legislative History Research
- Subtitled: A Practitioner's
Guide to Compiling the Documents and Sifting for Legislative Intent. This
site explains in detail (both in outline and in written narrative form)
the steps to go about in researching, compiling and sifting through the
legislative history documents of recent and historical U.S. public laws.
From LLSDC's Legislative
Source Book which has many useful links for legislative history research.
(LLSDC)
- Guide
to the U.S. Federal Legal System: Web-Based Publicly Accessible Sources
- Compiled by Reference
Librarian Gretchen Feltes. (NYU School of Law)
- How
Our Laws Are Made
- A basic outline of
our federal lawmaking process from the source of an idea for a legislative
proposal through its publication as a statute. Updated by Charles W. Johnson,
Parliamentarian, U.S. House of Representatives. (House of Representatives)
- Legislative Archive
- Includes Roll Call Votes, Bill Text, Bill Status, Amendment Status, Committee Reports, Congressional Record. From 104th Congress to Current. (House of Representatives)
- Legislative Process
- (House of Representatives)
- Legislative Process
- (U.S. Senate)
- Legislative Process: Enactment of a Law
- Updated by Robert Dove, Parliamentarian, U.S. Senate. (U.S. Senate)
- U.S.
Government Documents: The Legislative Process
- This excellent guide
traces the process by which a bill becomes a law and includes links to full
text Internet sources. (Columbia U. Libraries)
Text of Congressional Bills
- Years of the 1st through 110th Congresses (1789 - 2008)
- Table listing the years of each Congress. (U.S. Senate)
- Years and Session Dates of the U.S. Congress
- (GPO)
- Bills and Resolutions
- Bills and Resolutions are available for selected sessions of Congress - 6th - 42nd Congress in the House of Representatives, 16th - 42nd Congress in the Senate, and 18th - 42nd Congress for Senate Joint Resolutions, covering the time period from 1823 - 1873. (Library of Congress)
- Bills, Resolutions
- Simple and advanced searches for full Bill Text since 1989, Bill Summary and Status since 1973 or Multiple Congresses since 1989. (Library of Congress)
- Multi-Congress Search
- Search bill text across multiple Congresses. (Library of Congress)
- Yesterday in Congress
- Go to Current Activity column and click on "Yesterday in Congress" to search for the most recent legislative action. (Library of Congress)
- Bill Summary for House and Senate Bills
- Bill summary and status since 1973. Searchable by word/phrase, subject, bill number, stage in the legislative process, dates of introduction, sponsor and committee. Scroll down to the Stage in Legislative Process pulldown menu if you are looking for what bills have been presented to the President or which bills the President has signed or vetoed. (Library of Congress)
- Bill Text for Current or Previous Congresses
- Search current congress or search bill text since 101st
Congress (1989-90). (Library of Congress)
- Bill
text for House and Senate Bills
- Bill text since 103rd
Congress (1993-94). (GPO)
- Sponsor/Cosponsor Summaries
- Browse since 1973. (Library of Congress)
- Text of Legislation as reported from Conference Committees in the 110th Congress
- Text also available from 105th, 106th, 107th
108th and
109th Congresses. (House)
- History
of Bills
- The History of Bills
and Resolutions is a section of the Congressional Record Index that provides
information about all bills and resolutions introduced during that session
of Congress. The database is updated daily, usually the day after publication
of the Congressional Record. Each year since 1983 is available for searching individually,
however, searching the Historical database searches all years except for
the current year. Entries for each bill include actions that are reported
in the Congressional Record and reference issue and date and pages where
the action is reported. (GPO)
House and Senate Calendars
- Congressional Schedules, Calendars
- Congressional calendar is an agenda or list of business awaiting possible action by the House or Senate. Floor schedules list all the activity scheduled to take place in the House or Senate chamber for a given week or month. Includes link to Days-in-Session Calendars which show the days the House and Senate met. Coverage in Senate since 1978 and in House since 1995. (Library of Congress)
- House
Calendars
- From 104th (1995-96) to Current. (GPO Access)
- House Committee Listings - Committee Schedules
- (House of Representatives)
- Senate
Calendars
- From 104th (1995-96) to Current. (GPO Access)
- Senate
Legislative Calendar
- Links to Title Page
and Pending/Unfinished Business, Cross Index of Measures to General Order
Numbers, Measures Placed on Calendar Under General Orders Resolutions/Motions
Ordered to Lie Over, Bills and Joint Resolutions Read the First Time, Motions
for Reconsideration, Bills in Conference, Status of Appropriations Bills
(Senate)
Committee Hearings and Committee Prints
Be aware that many hearings are not available in a format which corresponds exactly to the printed version. Most, but not all, congressional committee and subcommittee websites have the prepared statements for their hearings. A few committees have the oral transcripts, but the complete hearing is normally only available in print or microfiche from the GPO. Most Congressional hearings may not be immediately available since they are published two months to two years after they are held.
A Committee Hearing is "a meeting or session of a Senate, House, Joint, or Special Committee of Congress, usually open to the public, to obtain information and opinions on proposed legislation, conduct an investigation, or evaluate/oversee the activities of a government department or the implementation of a Federal law. In addition, hearings may also be purely exploratory in nature, providing testimony and data about topics of current interest."
Congressional Committee Prints are publications issued by congressional committees on topics related to their legislative or research activities. The subjects of the committee prints vary greatly, due to the different concerns and actions of each individual committee. Some basic varieties of committee prints include: draft reports and bills, directories, statistical materials, investigative reports, historical reports, situational studies, confidential staff reports, hearings, and legislative analyses. (Definitions from GPO Access)
- Quick Links to House and Senate Committee Hearings and Other Publications
- This is an excellent site that will save you a lot of time when looking for hearings. Arranged by House and Senate committee name. For each committee the quick links include: the committee's GPO hearings site; Hearing List, News, Publications, Schedule, Search, Testimony, Transcripts,Visual/Audio and Comments that indicate where you can find the committee's recent hearings and how long it takes them to appear. (Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.)
- CapitolHearings.org - Daily Senate Hearings Live on the Web
- A new public service from C-SPAN to provide public access to the legislative process. CapitolHearings.org distributes gavel-to-gavel audio coverage of U.S. Senate Committee hearings. The Senate produces the audio feeds, and C-SPAN encodes and streams these hearings via CapitolHearings.org. There are 26 U.S. Senate Committee hearing rooms that have audio streaming capabilities. A full list of the hearing rooms available on CapitolHearings.org appears on the right hand column. Check daily hearing schedules and click on a hearing room to begin streaming audio. (C-SPAN)
- Congressional Committee Prints
- Since the 105th Congress (1997-98). (GPO)
- Congressional Hearings
- Only hearings released to GPO from the committees are made available on GPO Access; a limited number of Congressional hearings are available via GPO Access since the 104th Congress (1995-96). (GPO)
- Congressional Hearings Online
- Hearings included in this full-text online collection date from the 1970's to 1998. Material will continue to be added. Browse listings or search the texts. (1997-98). (Rutgers School of Law)
- Congressional Hearings Project
- A pilot project was undertaken with Google to digitize the entire hearings collection held by the Law Library of Congress and make it freely available to Congress and the world. Three collections have been selectively compiled to provide users with a test experience: U.S. Census, Freedom of Information/Privacy and Immigration. These selected Hearings, stored as PDF files, are samples of a larger group that will be digitized and made available as a result of this project. Ultimately, both the Library and Google will provide full-text access to the entire collection of Hearings. (Law Library of Congress)
- Congressional Hearings on the Web
- This guide documents electronic sources of Congressional hearings available to the public without cost. References to some hearings identified here date back to 1995. This guide predates the Quick Links LLSDC guide. It has not been updated since March 2000. (U. of Michigan)
- House of Representatives Committee Hearings
- Selected committee hearings transcripts since 1997. (House)
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary Published Hearings
- Hearings listed from 1997 to present. There are some links to statements of witnesses. (Senate)
- How to...Find Committee Hearings
- Helpful suggestions for locating committee hearings. (U.S. Senate)
- U.S. Congressional Bibliographies
- Enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted. Its sources are the Congressional Record's "Daily Digest" and bibliographic information supplied by the U.S. Senate Library. Its primary goal is to be an authoritative, exhaustive reference source of meetings held and documents released by House and Senate committees. The Senate Bibliographies section provides comprehensive lists of Hearings, Prints, and Publications printed by the Senate, 1983 to present. The House Meetings section provides lists of House Committee Meetings recorded in the Congressional Record's Daily Digest, 1985 to present.
There is now a Committee Meetings Index prepared by the NCSU library staff. The daily Congressional Record, in addition to its verbatim transcription of the debates of the House and Senate, briefly notes meetings held by Senate, House, and Joint committees in a section called the "Daily Digest."
Staff of the NCSU Libraries has extracted the abstracts of the committee meetings reported in the Daily Digests, beginning with the 99th Congress (1985 to the present); reformatted these entries into XML records and indexed them.
(North Carolina State)
Reports
- U.S.
Serial Set
- The Serial Set contains
the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports. At this
time the site includes selected documents and reports printed in the 23rd
(1833-35) through the 64th (1915-1916) Congresses. (Library of Congress)
- House
and Senate Committee Reports, Conference and Joint Committee Reports
- Since the 104th Congress
(1995-96) (Library of Congress)
- House
and Senate Reports, Senate Executive Reports
- Since the 104th Congress
(1995-96). (GPO)
- Conference Reports
- A conference report is a compromise on legislation that is negotiated between the House and Senate via conference committees. It is printed and submitted to each chamber for its consideration. This page contains links to active ("unofficial") and archived ("official") conference reports. Conference reports are available to the public as a filed version prior to official printing. Documents are available in ASCII Text and PDF. Since the 109th Congress (2005-06). (GPO)
- House
and Senate Documents, Senate Treaty Documents
- Since the 104th Congress
(1995-96). (GPO)
To browse a current catalog of Congressional Documents available on GPO Access, go to Congressional Documents: browse and click on the link for the appropriate Congress. Catalogs are available for the 104th Congress to the present. Links are included with each Congressional document listed in the catalog, which retrieve the text of the corresponding document as an ASCII text or PDF file. If a Congressional Document is not listed in the catalog, it is not available electronically via GPO Access at this time.
A treaty document
presents a treaty as submitted to the Senate for ratification by the president
of the United States. The corresponding executive report from the Committee
on Foreign Relations provides the committee’s recommendations on the treaty.
As an historical
aside, Senate Executive Documents prior to the 97th Congress were known
as Executive (Lettered) Documents and identified by letters of the alphabet.
Beginning with the 97th Congress in 1981, Executive Documents became known
as Treaty Documents, and they are now numbered, instead of lettered alphabetically.
To retrieve a Senate
Executive Report and its corresponding Senate Treaty Document you must
perform the same search in both the Congressional Reports and the Congressional
Documents databases. To narrow the search results, check the boxes for
executive reports in Congressional Reports and treaty documents in Congressional
Documents. Query: grains Results: E.Rpt.105-16 INTERNATIONAL GRAINS AGREEMENT,
1995 [from Reports] T.Doc.105-4 INTERNATIONAL GRAINS AGREEMENT, 1995 [from
Documents] (GPO)
- Treaties
- Information provided about Treaties includes treaty number, date treaty was transmitted, short title, formal title, treaty type, legislative actions and index terms. There is no full text - that must come from GPO Access. 94th Congress-present; 90th-94th, some missing data; few from 81st-89th. Complete coverage begins with the 94th Congress. Older treaties are included if they were pending in 1975 when the database was created. (Library of Congress)
- Treaties
- Connects to Treaties in Force and links to other treaty information. (U.S. Senate)
- Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) The Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs has begun efforts to make TIAS available on-line, as well as to reduce the delay between entry into force of an agreement and its official publication. 1996 and 1997 documents are online. In the interim, view the texts of agreements that entered into force after 1998 on the Department of State's Freedom of Information Act Document Collections page. (Secretary of State)
- Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements Compiled by law librarian Marci Hoffman. (LLRX)
Floor Action
- Congressional Record
- Search the full text of the Congressional Record by word/phrase, member of Congress and/or date or date range. You can also limit your searches by section of the record (House, Senate, Extensions of Remarks, Daily Digest. The Congressional Record (Daily Edition, not the final edition) is available since 101st Congress (1989-90) and the Index is available since 104th Congress, 1st Session (1995). (Library of Congress)
- Congressional Record Index
- Browse the keyword index to the daily editions of the Congressional Record. Page references for index terms and bill numbers are linked to the full text of the Congressional Record. (Library of Congress)
- Congressional Record Latest Daily Digest
- Go to right-side column, Current Activity section. Daily Digest is a summary of a day's activities in both chambers of Congress. There are links to full text of the record and bill numbers in the digest are linked to the full text of the bill. (Library of Congress)
- C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle
- Index to the C-SPAN video recordings of the House and Senate floor proceedings. The video recordings are matched with the text of the Congressional Record as soon as the Record is available. Currently the 108th (2003-2004), 109th (2005-2006), and 110th (2007-present) Congresses are available. The 107th (2001-2002) and the 106th (1999-2000) will be available soon. Previous Congresses back to 1988 will be added as the video is digitized and indexed at the rate of two Congresses per year.
- On the House Floor Now
- Go to right-side column, Current Activity section. This links to House compilation of floor actions occurring in the House on the current legislative day listed in reverse chronological order. File is updated at approximately 15 minute intervals. (Library of Congress)
- Congressional
Record
- Daily edition. Since 104th Congress, 1st Session (1995). (GPO)
- Congressional
Record
- Bound edition. As the Bound Congressional Record is the newest application available on GPO Access, currently only Volume 145 (1999; first session of the 106th Congress) and Volume 145 (2000; second session of the 106th Congress) are available. Additional volumes will be added in the near future. (GPO)
- Congressional
Record Index
- Since 98th Congress (1983-84). (GPO)
Voting Records
- C-Span
Congressional Vote Search
- Search by member,
month or subject. Since 104th Congress, 2nd Session (1996) (C-Span)
- GovtTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress
- Brings together legislative data from existing government sources and presents it in a more user-friendly format. GovTrack brings together information on the status of federal legislation, voting records, and campaign contributions. The site automatically tracks legislative events and categorizes them into thousands of subjects, such as "nuclear energy" and "medicine," so that users can follow just the events that interest them. (GovTrack.us)
- House
of Representatives Roll Call Votes
- As compiled by the
electronic voting machine under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
Since 101st Congress, 2nd Session (1990). (House)
- Project
Vote Smart
- Selected votes of
individual members along with other information. (Project Vote Smart)
- Senate Roll Call Votes
- (Senate)
- U.S. Congress Votes Database
- A database of every vote in the United States Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991). Browse votes in a variety of ways - both in aggregate and for individual members of Congress. Browse the database by drilling down to a particular Congress (e.g. 109th Congress) or particular member (e.g. 109th Congress senators). The site publishes an RSS feed of recent votes by each member of Congress, and a feed of the most recent votes in both chambers. (Washington Post)
Presidential Action
- History of Line Item Veto Notices
- Cancellation of legislative items pursuant to Line Item Veto Act (Public Law 104-130) with links to affected legislation. (GPO)
- Presidential
Executive Orders Disposition Tables
- Numerical listing
of Executive Orders available electronically from January 8, 1937 - current. (NARA)
- Weekly
Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Record of Presidential
signings and vetoes. Since 1993. (GPO)
Public Laws
- Public Law Listings
- When a bill is signed into law by the President it is sent to the Office of the Federal Register to be assigned a law number and paginated for the United States Statutes at Large. NARA maintains a list which is updated as soon as public laws become available. The list is arranged by law number and includes: Bill number, Public Law Number, Name of Act, Approval date, and U.S. Statutes at Large page citation. Public law numbers since 103rd Congress (1993). (NARA)
- Public Laws
- Search by bill number or word or phrase since 104th Congress (1995-96). (GPO)
- Public Law Numbers: Previous Sessions of Congress Public Law Numbers
- List of numbers for law starting with the 103rd Congress. (NARA)
- Public Laws by Law Number
- Search by bill number since 93rd Congress (1973-74). (Library of Congress)
- U.S.
Statutes at Large
- United States Statutes
at Large, commonly referred to as Statutes at Large, is the official source
for the laws and resolutions passed by Congress. The eighteen volumes presented
in this online collection cover the laws of the first forty-three Congresses,
1789-1875. (Library of Congress)
- U.S. Statutes at Large
- Starts with v.117, 108th Congress, 1st Session, 2003-2004, and now includes v.118, 108th Congress, 2nd Session, 2004. It is not clear on this page that v.117 is available, but you can do a quick search for v.117 pages, or you can go to the
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