Legal Research Assistance
The ACLU is unable to provide legal research assistance. Below are some useful resources.
Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
Based at Cornell University, the Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court owes its status as one of the most useful Internet sites to the fact that it quickly and reliably transfers Court-provided decisions into an Internet-friendly form (often within hours of release). Under Project Hermes’, this partnership with the Court has led to a fully searchable archive of Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1990, with selected cases from before that time. Cornell has recently added analysis of the more significant decisions of the New York Court of Appeals.”
Oyez Oyez Oyez: A Supreme Court WWW Resource (or Oyez -- pronounced "oh-yay" -- for short.)
Features RealAudio of oral arguments in major constitutional cases heard and decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court began to record its public sessions in October 1955. You can expect to see hundreds of cases on this web site -- and listen to hundreds of hours of digital audio -- as the project expands. These recordings of oral arguments and opinion announcements from are digitized from sources in the National Archives.
Comprehensive legal website with links to courts, law schools, legal organizations and much more.