Federal Judicial Branch

Circuit Courts
Links to Circuit Courts home pages.

Federal Judiciary
General information on federal courts, with links to individual court sites.

History of the Federal Judiciary
Biographies of Supreme, Circuit, and District judges 1789 - present; searchable by name, ethnicity, appointing president and his party, sex, court type, and date.

Judicial Branch (Georgetown)
Information about the Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals and District Courts; links to searchable databases of court opinions.

Supreme Court of the United States
General information about the Court; calendar, schedules, court rules. Includes opinions for the current two terms; for online access to earlier opinions, use one of the following:

• Supreme Court Nomination Guide
  Includes links to history and the nomination process.
  
  
• Supreme Court Collection (Cornell)
  Supreme Court information, including the searchable full text of decisions from 1990 - present and historic decisions. Links to other searchable databases of Supreme Court decisions.
  
  
• FedWorld/FLITE Supreme Court Decisions
  Full text of Supreme Court decisions issued between 1937 and 1975. Searchable by case name or keyword.
  
  
• FindLaw
  Full text of Supreme Court decisions from 1893- present. Browsable by year and US Reports volume number; searchable by citation, case title and full text.
  
  
• Federal Case Law via Academic Universe (Available in the Library to all and off-campus to the UMass Amherst community with an OIT account)
  Choose legal research to link to search forms for the full text of Supreme Court cases from 1790-present; includes cases from Courts of Appeals, military courts, district courts, tax courts, etc.
  

   

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Created: March, 2002
Last modified: September 21, 2005