LibGuides: International Materials: United States of America

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Google Scholar
US Supreme Court opinions since 1791, US federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts since 1923, and State appellate and supreme court cases since 1950s.
Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute
LII electronically publishes the U.S. Code, U.S. Supreme Court opinions, Uniform Commercial Code, the US Code of Federal Regulations, several Federal Rules, and a variety of other American primary law materials. LII also provides access to other national and international sources, such as treaties and United Nations materials.
Caselaw Access Project
CAP includes all official, book-published state and federal United States case law through 2020 — every volume or case designated as an official report of decisions by a court within the United States. The scope includes all state courts, federal courts, and territorial courts for American Samoa, Dakota Territory, Guam, Native American Courts, Navajo Nation, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The earliest case is from 1658, and currently include all volumes published through 2020. Each volume has been converted into structured, case-level data broken out by majority and dissenting opinion, with human-checked metadata for party names, docket number, citation, and date. They also offer PDFs with selectable OCR text for each case published up to 2018.

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Large collection of legal treatises, journals, legislation, and case law.

Remote access available. To obtain your log-in information, please contact the Great Library at refstaff@lso.ca.
Lexis Advance Quicklaw This link opens in a new window
The U.S. legal collection on Quicklaw provides access to a comprehensive spectrum of legislative information — state and federal — as well as federal and state case law, statutes, and regulations from over 1,300 sources to meet your primary research needs.

U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decisions
U.S. District Court decisions since 1789
Decisions from bankruptcy courts; the U.S. Court of International Trade; tax courts; the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; the U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals Cases; commerce courts; and military courts
State court decisions at all court levels for all 50 states and territories
All federal laws since 1988
Federal regulations: the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and Federal Acquisition Regulations and Supplements

Available for use onsite at the CCLA Library.