Law journals, federal regulations, US Attorney General and US Department of Justice opinions, federal agency case law, and supreme court library

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Contains information about each case decided by the Court since 1953.

Search "legal documents." Case law is limited to state appellate and supreme courts from 1950;federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts from 1923; and
the U.S. Supreme Court from 1791.

Coverage varies; opinions from individual state court sites

Case law from 1997

Case law from 1997, must search courts separately

Access to the full-text of many news, business, and legal resources.

FDsys provides free online access to official Federal Government publications, including the Code of Federal Regulations, the United States Code, the Constitution of the United States, and the full text of public laws.

Indexing and abstracts for U.S. congressional publications. Includes the full text of reports, bills, public laws, and legislative histories and links to selected fulltext documents, committee prints, and congressional hearings testimony. Also contains information on members of Congress, campaign financial data, congressional voting records, and other information about the legislative process. 1789 to present for indexing, mid-1980s to present for full text.

Government site with constitution, general court rules, laws, bills, budget, legislators, and events

Acts and Resolves, 1892-2009

Non-profit site with laws, bills, legislators, and events. Updates and bill tracking available via rss feed

Legislative information from the Library of Congress

Access to the full-text of many news, business, and legal resources, including European, Commonwealth and Canadian legal sources.

A collection of treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the Secretariat since 1946.

GLIN is a searchable online database from the Library of Congress containing the laws, judicial decisions, legislative records, and legal literature for jurisdictions spanning the globe.

Access to the full-text of many news, business, and legal resources, including law reviews.

Articles, books, reports, and patents in science, engineering, social science, and arts and humanities, particularly published after 1995. Includes citation features and tools to analyze authors and journals.

Indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art and humanities research journals, plus cited reference searches. 1956 to present

Working papers (fulltext or abstracts) for research in economics, management, and other social sciences. 1993 to present

Indexing and fulltext content of articles in scholarly Chinese-language journals in political science, military affairs, and law. 1994 to present