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FEDERAL JUDICIARY SITES

U.S. Courts Home Page
http://www.uscourts.gov

Contains links to all federal court web sites.

Cornell's Opinions Search for All U.S. Courts of Appeal

http://law.cornell.edu:9999/USCA-ALL/search.html

Federal Judicial Center
http://www.fjc.gov

The education arm of the federal judiciary

Inside the Federal Courts

Information on how the courts work, how they are organized, and how they fit into the U.S. system of government.  Also contains definitions and summarizes the Code of Conduct for Judicial employees.

United States Sentencing Commission
http:\\www.ussc.gov

Includes member list, annual reports, manuals, and other documents

Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeal
http://app.comm.uscourts.gov

Final report on suggestions to address growing caseload of federal courts of appeal, specifically the ninth circuit.

U.S. Supreme Court Home Page

http://supremecourtus.gov

Official U.S. Supreme Court site.  Contains information about the court, calendars, rules, filing guides, and press releases.  Opinions starting with 1999 court year.  Docket information forthcoming.

Supreme Court Decisions
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html

Links to Supreme Court opinions, court calendar, current schedule of oral arguments, information on former and current justices, Supreme Court rules, and other Supreme Court information.

On the Docket

http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/docket/

Continually updated coverage of cases pending before the Supreme Court.  A current listing of pending cases, brief synopsis, plus links to relevant web sites.  Coverage back to 98/99 term.

 

Briefserve.com

http://www.briefserve.com

Commercial source for Supreme Court petitions and briefs.  Free information includes court calendars, rules, forms, guides, and Questions Presented.  Downloaded petitions and briefs  (PDF format) for $25 each.

The Oyez Project, Northwestern University
http://oyez.nwu.edu

A multimedia site that includes oral arguments via RealAudio downloads.

FLITE (Supreme Court decisions 1937-1975)

http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct

Status of Nominations in  Current Congress

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/legis_act_nominations.html

 

Federal Rules of Procedure
This page has links to rules in effect, proposed amendments, local rules of courts, and rules committee records.
http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/