SUPREME COURT CASES & INTERPRETATIONS

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1. FedWorld.gov Another government site, searchable by keyword or by case, this site covers over 7,400 cases.

2. FindLaw This is a site that has a searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1893. It is browsable by year and volume number and provides summaries, related web sites, and full text of the court's decisions.

3. GPO Access Supreme Court Decisions This site covers Supreme Court decisions from 1937-1975 only. It has a very simple search interface, so it is a good place to begin.

4. Jurist Legal Intelligence Jurist is a project directed by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. This is a wonderfully complete resource that covers decisions from 1793 until the present. You can listen to oral arguments, find information on the different orders, get biographical information about the different justices, and much more.

5. Legal Information Institute This site is sponsored by the Legal Information Institute, and a project of the Cornell Law School, this site provides information free of charge to all users. This site has full text on over 600 of the most important decisions of the court, and they can be accessed by party name, topic, and opinion author. The user must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded from the Web for free from www.adobe.com.

6. Live-brary: Local, New York State, and Federal Government documents and information And finally, as a last resource, you can try SuffolkWeb's site, under Government resources, then Supreme Court resources, and it brings up a list of links to try out.

7. Rominger Legal This is a site with an easy to use set of links for the Supreme Court. There is plenty of opportunity to find specific cases and decisions
in full text.