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U.S. Laws & Legislations
Business Law – Federal
http://www.business.gov/topics/business_laws/
The official business links to the U.S. government.
CapitolHearings.org
http://www.capitolhearings.org/
C-SPAN's www.CapitolHearings.org is offered on the Internet as a free public service in support of the C-SPAN mission to provide public access to the legislative process.
Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Each volume of the CFR is updated once each calendar year and is issued on a quarterly basis.
Court Records for Federal Courts – Electronic Records
http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/
The PACER Service Center is the Federal Judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records.
Criminal Justice Links
http://www.jus.state.nc.us/NCJA/cjlinks.htm
This page created by the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr/
The Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) is a prototype of a currently updated version of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The e-CFR prototype is a demonstration project. It is not an official legal edition of the CFR. The e-CFR prototype is authorized and maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and the Government Printing Office (GPO). The OFR updates the material in the e-CFR on a frequent basis.
Federal Register
http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/index.html
The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) provides access to the official text of Federal Laws, Presidential Documents, Administrative Regulations and Notices, and Descriptions of Federal Organizations, Programs and Activities.
FedLaw- Federal Legal Research
http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm
FedLaw was developed to see if legal resources on the Internet could be a useful and cost-effective research tool for Federal lawyers and other Federal employees. Fedlaw has assembled references of use to people doing Federal legal research and which can be accessed directly through "point and click" hypertext connections.
FindLaw Guide to Legal Resources
http://www.findlaw.com/index.html
A searchable comprehensive collection of legal information available over the Internet, organized by topic.
FirstGov - Laws and Regulations
http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Laws.shtml
General Reference Resources on Federal, State and Local Laws and Regulations.
GPO Access Online Resources
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html
Database search of laws and regulations, publications, budget documents.
Guide to Law Online
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/index.html
The Guide to Law Online, prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information.
Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions
http://www.phillipsnizer.com/internetlib.htm
The Internet Law Library, authored exclusively by Martin H. Samson, features extensive summaries of over 420 court decisions shaping the law of the web; providing facts, analysis and pertinent quotes from cases of interest to those who do business on the Internet and in New Media. These court decisions address a broad array of topics, including copyright and trademark infringement, dilution and other intellectual property issues, jurisdiction, linking, framing, keying, meta tags, pop-up ads, consumer complaint or gripe sites, tax, clip-art, online defamation, domain name disputes, e-mail, privacy, subpoenas, MP3s, encryption, gambling, click-wrap agreements, shrink wrap licenses, and spam, among others.
LawCrawler - Legal Web & Databases Search
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
"A search tool specifically designed for legal research. The LawCrawler is powered by AltaVista(tm) Search and enables researchers to focus their searches on legal information and within particular domains." Separate search engines are available for USA & World, USA & Circuit Courts, California, Other US States, and Other Countries.
Legal Information Institute - Cornell Law School
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School. Popular collections include: the U.S. Code, Supreme Court opinions, and Law about.
Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex
This page illustrates the use of searchable legal indexes on the World Wide Web. Only specifically legal indexes in the U.S. are included. Please note that many of the search tools here have additional search options available and that to derive full benefit from them you should visit the original sites directly.
Public Laws - Thomas
http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d108/d108laws.html
Public laws affect society as a whole, and make up most of the laws passed by Congress.
Supreme Court of the United States
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and such number of Associate Justices as may be fixed by Congress. The number of Associate Justices is currently fixed at eight (28 U. S. C. §1). Power to nominate the Justices is vested in the President of the United States, and appointments are made with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Thomas - Legislation on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/
In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress. THOMAS was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public.
U.S. Code - House of Representatives.
http://uscode.house.gov/
The Office of the Law Revision Counsel prepares and publishes the United States Code, which is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States.
U.S. Code- Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
This version is generated from the most recent official version made available by the US House of Representatives. For exact information about the currency of any particular title as it is published by the House, see the listing on the House server. The date of any text appearing on this site appears in italics at the upper right in every Code section.