Criminal Justice - General Resources

Library of Congress Research Guide for all Federal Court Decisions.

This website lets you search by US Supreme Court case and includes opinion summaries, briefs, oral argument audio, and resources that provide a panoramic view of each case in its context.

This is the official website for the Supreme Court which lists their cases and the decisions in those cases.

This website from the Department of Justice gives background information for students to learn more about the legal justice system.

The United States Courts of Appeal, sometimes referred to as the Federal Circuit Courts, are intermediate appellate federal courts. They are comprised of thirteen circuits; the 1st - 11th Circuits, the District of Columbia Circuit Court and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. These courts hear appeals from decisions rendered by the U.S. District Courts, as well as from other federal courts and agencies. Click here to see a map of the Federal Circuits.

The Federal Circuit publishes online all opinions, precedential orders, dispositive orders in writs petitions, Rule 36 judgments, non-ministerial orders relating to rehearing or en banc petitions or actions, dispositive orders constituting either judgment or mandate, and any errata notice or revised version for any of the preceding document types. Opinions and select orders from October 1, 2004, to the present are available for public access. All orders issued after 2012 are available through PACER.

Search State Court Report's database of significant state supreme court decisions and pending cases.

This page provides links to state court websites. You may be able to access court records and court filings on some court websites.

This has the published opinions for the SC Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Advance Sheets as well as unpublished opinions for SC Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.