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Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
www.uscourts.gov/index.html

Users can search for Circuit and District courts by state and county or view regional map to locate courts. Includes information on courts; links to court Web sites. Provides Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Rules and Procedures, other rules. Links to local rules of courts. Provides appellate, civil, bankruptcy court forms. Includes information on, text of amendments and recommended changes to federal court rules; legislation relating to federal court rules; archive of rules, amendments. Provides information on Electronic Case Filing and PACER; glossary of terms used in federal courts; library; court publications; news, press releases.


BankruptcyData.com
www.BankruptcyData.com

Contains Bankruptcy Court directory and links.


Cornell Legal Information Institute
www.law.cornell.edu


Point to "Constitutions & Codes" on menu bar at left. On resulting Flash pulldown menu, can choose complete text of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, Uniform Commercial Code or full text of other laws.


Federal Civil Cases – Database of Terminated Cases
teddy.law.cornell.edu:8090/questtr7900.htm

Searchable database of nearly 5 million U.S. District Court civil cases terminated since 1978. Data was gathered by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, assembled by the Federal Judicial Center and disseminated by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.


Federal Courts Forms
www.uscourts.gov/forms/uscforms.cfm

Can view and download forms from the federal court system.


Federal Court Locator
www.law.villanova.edu/
library/researchandstudyguides/
federalcourtlocator.asp


The Web site, from Villanova University School of Law, provides links to the Web sites of the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeals, District, Bankruptcy Courts and other federal courts.


Federal Court Rules
www.uscourts.gov/rules/

Contains Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, U.S. Bankruptcy Code, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Also includes proposed rules amendments published for comment; pending rules amendments; information about rulemaking process; past rules amendments; link to pending legislation affecting rules; and related publications.


Federal Court Rules
judiciary.house.gov/Printshop.aspx?Section=1

The House Judiciary Committee provides full text of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Includes committee rules.


Federal Judicial Center
www.fjc.gov

Research and education agency of the federal judiciary provides research results, publications and educational materials on the federal courts. Contains biographies of all federal judges since 1789; Manual for Complex Litigation; Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence; materials on electronic discovery; court histories; publications catalog.


FindLaw
www.findlaw.com

Contains database of federal case law, directory of U.S. District and Bankruptcy courts, and links to other U.S. courts.


Findlaw Forms
forms.lp.findlaw.com

Provides free federal court forms.


Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
www.jpml.uscourts.gov

Includes court information, current hearing session order, panel rules, and a list of multidistrict litigation cases, with litigation details.


Lawyers Weekly, Inc.
www.lawyersweekly.com/resources/courtopinions.cfm

Provides links to Web sites with full-text federal court opinions.


LexisOne
www.lexisone.com/caselaw/freecaselaw


Visitors can search free database of federal and state case law by jurisdiction, search terms or dates. Must register to use.


Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/law/guide/usjudic.html

Provides links to Supreme Court, Courts of Appeals and District Court Web sites and opinions; special jurisdiction court Web sites and opinions; and federal court procedures.


LLRX: Court Rules, Forms and Dockets
www.llrx.com/courtrules/

Includes links to sources for federal court rules, forms and dockets. Visitors can browse by jurisdiction to find resources or search by keyword, court type, state.


Megalaw.com
www.megalaw.com

Links to federal court opinion search engines and court rule pages.


NOCALL Court Web Sites
www.nocall.org/links/courts.html

This comprehensive list of links directs users to federal and state court home pages, plus provides some helpful research tools for locating other court resources.


PACER Service Center
pacer.psc.uscourts.gov

The PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) Service Center is the federal judiciary's centralized registration, billing and technical support center for Internet access to appellate, District and Bankruptcy court records, including dockets and case information. Some decisions are available free of charge; others cost 8 cents a page for access. Can register online. Provides U.S. Party/Case Index; listing of appellate, District and Bankruptcy Court PACER links; link to access account information online; PACER manual and documents.


Post-Judgment Interest Rates for Federal Cases
www.utd.uscourts.gov/
documents/judgpage.html


Provides tables of post-judgment interest rates, organized by year since 1994.


U.S. Court Forms
www.uscourtforms.com

Provides access to more than 60,000 court forms from federal and state jurisdictions. Registered users can view and print forms; subscribers can use a variety of interactive, auto-fill and e-filing options.


U.S. Party/Case Index
pacer.uspci.uscourts.gov

National index of U.S. appellate, District and Bankruptcy Court records compiled through PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records). Can search nationwide by party name; party name or Social Security number in bankruptcy index; name or nature of suit in civil index; defendant name in criminal index; and party name in appellate index. Search results provide party name, court where the case is filed, case number and filing date. PACER is available to registered users only, and an access fee of 8 cents a page may apply to some decisions. Online registration is available, and fees can be paid online by credit card. For more information on PACER, click here.


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