Laws, Regulations & Cases federal case law The official US supreme court Web site offers history, WestLaw, online federal and all 50 states case law, statutes, and regulations. http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/laws.html
Extractions: U.S. Constitution Includes text, history, explanation of legal points and major constitutional cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. United States Code Full-text searchable version the U.S. Code. Titles 1-50 are updated through January 26, 1998. In order to ensure that a particular section of the law is still in force, it is necessary to search for current legislation using Thomas Thomas 93rd Congress [1973] to present ), produced by the Library of Congress, for the purpose of making federal legislative information freely available to the public via the Internet. Thomas offers information on current bills, recently passed laws, House and Senate voting records, selected full-text committee reports, and the Congressional Record. A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation ), American Memory Collection, Library of Congress. Full-text U.S. Congressional documents and debates, including the Journals of the Continental Congress Code of Federal Regulations This CFR is provided by the U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library. It can be searched by topic, keyword or title/section number.
Studying A Federal Statute To find court decisions relevant to a statute. To find US supreme court While WWU does not have federal court cases below the supreme court level, http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/subjects/govinfo/laws.htm
Extractions: Some Suggestions Does your assignment require you to read the text of the statute, or to study its causes, interpretation, and effects? Generally, the causes, interpretation, and effects are more easily found OUTSIDE of the text of the statute itself. To start: Go to United States Code Annotated (Gov. Info. Ref. Y4.J89/1:UN3/3/West) Find the Index (paperback volumes) The last volume of the index will be the Popular Name Table
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Extractions: 410 U.S. 113 (1973) Roe invalidated a 19 th century Texas statute prohibiting abortion except in cases where necessary to preserve maternal life on the basis that the right of privacy secured by the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment includes a fundamental right of a woman to decide "whether or not to terminate her pregnancy." Doe v. Bolton 410 U.S. 179 (1973) Companion to Roe v. Wade . By a vote of 7-2, the Court invalidated Georgia "reform" abortion statute that permitted abortion where continued pregnancy would endanger womans life or health, including mental health, where the fetus would likely be born with a serious defect or where pregnancy resulted from rape. Statute also required that abortion be performed in accredited hospital, and that two physicians confirm the performing physicians judgment of necessity for abortion. Doe is frequently cited for its definition of maternal "health." Because
Supreme Court - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia The court s decisions are final and binding on the federal courts and of federal statutes, but the people can strike down a proposed law by referendum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court
Extractions: (Redirected from Supreme Court The supreme court in some countries, provinces, and states, is the highest court in that jurisdiction and functions as a court of last resort whose rulings cannot be appealed. In the United States , for example, there is a federal Supreme Court as well as supreme courts within most of the states. However, some jurisdictions do not use the phrase "Supreme Court" in naming their highest courts, as described below. Although some countries and subordinate states follow the American model of having a supreme court that interprets that jurisdiction 's constitution , most (including all of the formerly communist Central and Eastern European nations except Estonia ) follow the Austrian model of a separate constitutional court (first developed in the Austrian Constitution of Many higher courts create through their decisions case law applicable within their respective jurisdictions or interpret codal provisions in civil-law countries to maintain a uniform interpretation: Most common-law nations have the doctrine of stare decisis in which the rulings decisions ) of higher courts constitute binding precedent upon courts of equal or lower status within their jurisdiction.
Extractions: Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. Seal of the Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest federal court in the United States of America . It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices , who are nominated by the President and confirmed with the " advice and consent " of the Senate . Justices of the Supreme Court are appointed to serve for life, and they can only be removed by resigning or by Congress through the Impeachment process. No justice has ever been successfully removed from office by Congress, though many have retired or resigned. The Supreme Court is the only court established by the United States Constitution ; all other federal courts are created by Congress . The Court holds both original and appellate jurisdiction, but the latter is by far used more often. Like other federal courts, the Supreme Court may exercise the power of judicial review , or the power to declare federal or state laws, as well as the actions of federal and state executives, unconstitutional. The decisions of the Supreme Court may not be appealed to any other body; as Justice
Researching Canadian Law decisions are reported in the supreme court Reports. KE 140 .A25 Canadian statutes, both federal and provincial, appear in either sessional or annual http://library.law.smu.edu/resguide/canada.htm
Extractions: RESEARCHING CANADIAN LAW Underwood Law Library Southern Methodist University Guide 703 Print this Page This information was compiled as of January 1, 2001. Please be certain to verify and update with your own research. This information is for reference use in Underwood Law Library and is not intended as a substitute for obtaining legal advice. The Canadian constitution originated from numerous statutes and is not based on a single document. Prior to April 17, 1982, the written component of the constitution consisted primarily of three British statutes enacted by the Parliament of Great Britain. The three statutes - the Colonial Laws Validity Act of 1865, the British North America Act of 1867 ("B.N.A. Act"), and the Statute of Westminster of 1931 - provided the basic framework for the Canadian constitution. The B.N.A. Act was the most important component of the written constitution. Any law passed by the Canadian Parliament or a legislature had to conform to the jurisdictional constraints set out in the B.N.A. Act.
Extractions: The ATLA Exchange is a unique litigation support and networking service available exclusively to ATLA members. The Exchange tracks and stores "inquirer" information, case abstracts, references, verdict and settlement data, experts, articles, and other trial-level litigation information. Principal research areas include products liability, motor vehicle cases, medical issues, professional negligence, transportation, discovery abuse, toxic torts, insurance bad faith, and civil rights. Basic Guide to International Legal Research, A (College of William and Mary) This guide is intended to explain the importance of court rules and to inform researchers of the sources available to provide the text and annotations to these rules. Court rules establish uniform procedures which provide all parties to a lawsuit with the information necessary to conduct the proceedings before a particular federal court. Since these rules provide guidelines for everything from the preparation of papers to be filed before the court to strict time limitations for filing motions and briefs, it is imperative that one know where to locate them.
U.S. Court System The supremacy of federal laws or treaties when they differ from state and local laws. Among the legal influences on supreme court decisions are http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/court.html
Extractions: U.S. Court System The U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington D. C. Diagram of the U.S. Court System The Supreme Court of the United States was created by Sec. 1 Article III of the Constitution. Its jurisdiction is set out by statute in Title 28 of the U.S. Code. The organization of the Court is also spelled out by legislation. The Court itself develops the rules governing the presentation of cases . One of the most important powers of the Supreme Court is judicial review . While the Supreme Court is a separate branch of government, outside factors do exert some influence on the Court. U.S. Supreme Court Justices There are nine justices; a Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate justices, who are appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. Justices serve during good behavior (usually until death, retirement or resignation.) Chief Justice Year Appointed President William H. Rehnquist
Court Decisions of California s hate crime statutes, rejecting defense claims that the laws are over broad, Important United States supreme court Hate Crime Cases http://www.cahro.org/html/court_decisions.html
Extractions: Court Decisions ... back to top Important California Cases Interpreting California Hate Crime Statutes California Supreme Court cases In re M. S (1995) 10 Gal. 4th 698 ( California Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of California's hate crime statutes, rejecting defense claims that the laws are over broad, vague, or impermissible content-based regulation of speech; the court also ruled that when a defendant has multiple motives for committing a crime, the kind of bias prohibited by the hate crime law must be a substantial factor in bringing about the crime before the crime will be considered a hate crime.) People v. Superior (Aishman (1995) 10 Gal. 4th 735 (Penal Code section 422.75, which provides for imposition of a sentence enhancement for felonies committed because of the victim's actual or perceived race, color, nationality, country or origin, ancestry, disability or sexual orientation, does not need to be read to include a specific intent requirement; this section will also be interpreted to require that when multiple concurrent causes for the offense exist, if the bias motivation is a substantial factor in bringing about the offense, the perpetrator's sentence can be enhanced.) California Court of Appeal Cases Coon v.
Washington Courts Washington court Rules and supreme and Appellate court decisions including http//www.law.cornell.edu/statutes.html. federal and State constitutions, http://www.courts.wa.gov/library/?fa=library.display&fileID=netsrch
BASIC LEGAL RESEARCH FEDERAL LAWS AND COURT CASES Both give citations to the statutes at Large. federal court CASES See below for online access to the decisions. federal laws AND court CASES ONLINE http://www.unk.edu/acad/library/gov_doc/fedlawct.htm
Extractions: AND COURT CASES Return to Government Documents Home Page Return to Basic Research FEDERAL LAWS Laws from the federal government are in two sets of documents, the U.S. Code , and the United States Statutes at Large U.S. Code *Y 1.2/5:(volume), Documents Reference Collection The U.S. Code contains federal laws that are currently in force. It is arranged by broad subjects called " Titles ." There are fifty titles or subject divisions in the set. The U.S. Code is reprinted at six year intervals and updated during the interim with supplements. Use the set if you need the federal laws about something, i.e., laws about aviation, child abuse, civil rights, education, persons with disabilities, etc. Look in the index volumes for your subject. The index will give a citation that looks like this: DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION, CONTROL AND TREATMENT personnel 21 § 878 The first number is the title or broad subject and the second is the section within that title. Title numbers are on the spine of the volumes. Find the volume with the title you want; then look at the top of the pages to locate the title and section. After you have looked up the title and section you need, check the same citation in the newest supplement to see if the law has been changed. Even with the supplements, the laws in the U. S. Code
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Extractions: A source for information on U.S. government, politics, and elections. Designed for use by students, political activists, government employees, and interested citizens, it contains over twelve hundred articles and more than six hundred illustrations. This expansive coverage illuminates the history, structure, dynamics, operation, and personalities of the three branches of U.S. government and elections, and provides the who, what, where, when, and how of every era of American historyfrom the American Revolution to the present.
HCL Libraries - Harvard College Library decisions of the federal courts, treaties, or laws enacted by state or local US supreme court decisions via Fedworld. searchable by full text http://hcl.harvard.edu/govdocs/guides/us_laws.html
Extractions: Skip directly to content Home > HCL Libraries There are over 90 libraries at Harvard that comprise the Harvard University Library system, with combined holdings of over 15 million items. More than 10 million of those items are part of the collection of a centrally administered unit within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that is referred to as the Harvard College Library (HCL) and includes Cabot Science, Fine Arts (includes Harvard Film Archive), Harvard-Yenching, Houghton (includes Harvard Theatre Collection), Lamont, Littauer (includes Environmental Information Center), Loeb Music, Tozzer, and Widener libraries, and the Harvard Map Collection and Government Documents/Microforms. See the Harvard Libraries site for a complete listing of all University libraries. Quad and CGIS libraries are opening soon Contact: Tel: Fax: E-mail General sciences with undergraduate collections in applied sciences, astronomy, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, physics, zoology, history of science, and agriculture engineering, and research collections in earth and planetary sciences, pure mathematics, and theoretical statistics.
Extractions: ASA News ASEE Prism Academe African American Review ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Retrieving statutes, cases and law review commentarya primer for-non lawyers Journal of Law and Education Jan 2003 by Whiteman, Michael Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Education Law Research I. FINDING STATUTORY LAW-IDEA AS AN EXAMPLE The common law as known in 17th century England has virtually disappeared both in England and the United States. The law, as we know it, is statutory. The courts still decide cases, but the law interpreted and applied is statutory law. Education law is replete with state and federal legislation. The shorthand terms Title VII and Title IX and the acronyms IDEA and ERISA are workaday words in the school attorney's glossary. Indeed, the starting point for any legal inquiry is, what statute or statutes are involved, and how are they worded. "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" (IDEA) will be used as an example of how to locate statutes as this Act enjoys more than its share of litigation, hence its selection.
Online NewsHour: Supreme Court Wrap -- June 27, 2003 Big decisions. As the 20022003 supreme court term came to a close this week, the court has struck down numerous federal civil rights statutes. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june03/scwrap_06-27-03.html
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Extractions: The material below was prepared by Maria M. Otero , Head of the Reference Dept. University of Puerto Rico Law Library for the program entitled presented at the SEAALL Annual Meeting/Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, P.R. March 30-April 1, 2000 Primary sources from Puerto Rico are published in Spanish, the official translations into English takes longer to be available either published or from the government agency. Generally, copies of the statutes, opinions, regulations and other government documents are free to U.S. government agencies upon a written request to the particular agency. How to obtain unpublished Puerto Rico statutes, regulations and court decisions officially translated into English Statutes The Laws of Puerto Rico Annotated (English version) is outdated, the last supplement published is dated 1996. To obtain copies of the latest statutes translated into English, a request should be sent to the Department of State: Departamento de Estado
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