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Nexis Uni

Provides full-text access to newspapers and magazines. Contains: Federal Case Law, Federal Code, Shepard's for U.S. Supreme Court Cases, business, news and general reference resources. (Accessible from On-Campus only)

Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis - including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 - with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

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Supreme Court Debates
Spotlights a current case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Follows, analyzes and reports what's going on in our highest courts.
FindLaw: Cases & Codes
FindLaw's Cases and Codes section contains resources and links for both state and federal laws. This includes resources pertaining to constitutions, statutes, cases and more. Run a search for case summaries or select a jurisdiction to browse applicable laws.
Cornell's Legal Information Institute
The Supreme Court Library in Cornell's Legal Information Institute offers links to current decisions, historic decisions, and information about the court itself.
OpenJurist
Open Jurist, an online legal research tool, contains the United States Reports.
Oyez
A multimedia archive of the Supreme Court of the United States. This collection maintains recordings of selected arguments from 1955 through 1995 and all arguments from 1995 through the end of the last completed Term.
Public Library of Law
Available in PLoL: Cases from the U.S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals; Cases from all 50 states back to 1997; Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states; Regulations, court rules, constitutions, and more.
Supreme Court Database
The database contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court between the 1953 and 2008 terms.
U.S. Supreme Court (Duke University)
The United States Supreme Court is the most watched and researched court in the country, if not the world. Its opinions are available in many formats, and many primary and secondary sources are available for research into the Court's decisions and the Court itself. In fact, the Court is so important that under Bluebook Rule 8, it is the only court where a capital "C" must be used any time the Court is mentioned.
Supreme Court Opinions
Opinions from the Supreme Court, 2006-2011
Supreme Court's Docket
Contains information about cases, both pending and decided.
Digital Media Law Project
Founded in 2007 as the "Citizen Media Law Project," the Digital Media Law Project (DMLP) works to ensure that individuals and organizations involved in online journalism and digital media have access to the legal resources, education, tools, and representation that they need to thrive.