Cases and Codes
FEDERAL AND STATE CASES
LexisOne http://law.lexisnexis.com/webcenters/lexisone/
Search the Free Case Law tab for the last ten years of State & Federal Courts and U.S. Supreme.
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FindLaw provides summaries of cases at http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/
Justia.com has US Supreme Court cases 1700s to present; Federal Court of Appeals opinions since 1950; US District Court opinions at http://law.justia.com/
US Supreme Court cases
· http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/opinions.html (1991-present)
· http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html (1893-present)
· http://supcourt.ntis.gov/ (1935-1975)
· http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome (1754-2005)
Google is now including full-text legal opinions from U.S. Federal and State District, Appellate, and Supreme courts in Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com).
FEDERAL AND STATE CODES
HeinOnline http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome (US Code, Code of Federal Regulations, US Statutes at Large)
Justia.com http://law.justia.com/ (US Code; Code of Federal Regulations, US Regulations Tracker, Individual State Codes)
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute has links to the US Constitution, US Code, Code of Federal Regulation, US Supreme Court decisions, Uniform Commercial Code, Federal Rules, and State Codes at http://www.law.cornell.edu/
Law Reviews
LAW REVIEWS
Justia.com has a keyword-searchable database of tables of contents from more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly publications related to the law published in the United States and abroad at http://www.justia.com/law-schools/law-reviews.html Then search HeinOnline Law Journal Library for journal at http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome?collection=journals
Gale’s LegalTrac database at http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/view/databases/abc/L covers all major law reviews, and specialty law and bar association journals.
Tax Law
Justia.com Tax Law at http://www.justia.com/tax/ includes the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury tax regulations and other official guidance from the Internal Revenue Service, opinions from the US Tax Court, and links to individual state taxing and revenue agencies.
HeinOnline’s US Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals library at http://heinonline.org/HOL/Index?collection=usfed&set_as_cursor=clear includes Reports of US Tax Court (1942-2007) and the Internal Revenue Cumulative Bulletin (1919-2007).
Patents
US Patent and Trademark Office at www.uspto.gov has a patent full-text and image database, as well as instruction for filing for a patent. Site also has extensive information on trademarks and intellectual property law and policies.
Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library has a collection of US patents from the early 1970's to the present. see the IMCPL Patent Information page.
Delphion (formerly the IBM patent server)
This engine allows you to search United States, European, Japanese, and World Patents by keyword or patent number. This site requires registration before you can use their services. Basic searching is free, but full access to Delphion's services require a paid subscription.
Espacenet (European Network of Patent Databases)
Search for European, US, and Japanese patents.
State Legal Documents
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute’s collection of state legal materials gathers, state by state, Internet-accessible sources of the constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and regulations for the fifty states, plus D.C., and the U.S. territories and affiliated jurisdictions at http://www.law.cornell.edu/states/ as well as state statutes by topic at http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/state_statutes Indianapolis self-help ("pro se") legal documents and help
Indianapolis has closed the Marion County Law Library, which previously provided documents and assistance for citizens wishing to represent themselves in civil court. Litigants can now receive help finding and printing necessary forms at the Family Resource Center in the City County Building, room W125. The books previously house in the Law Library have been transferred to the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library's Central Branch. Forms and videos on the "pro se" process can be found on the City's website www.Indy.gov by searching on the term "pro se".
International Law
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute’s The LII collection of world legal materials gathers, country by country, continent by continent, the Internet-accessible sources of the constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and related legal material from around the globe (excluding the U.S. material held in the LII's other collections). It also holds resources and document collections of International law at http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/
