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Legal Research on the Internet

The list below provides a set of useful starting places for legal research on the Internet. It is not intended to be exhaustive. For additional information please consult your local library.

Washington State

Constitution

http://www1.leg.wa.gov/LawsAndAgencyRules/constitution.htm

Constitution text

http://www.courts.wa.gov/education/constitution/

Washington Constitution

Legislature

http://www1.leg.wa.gov/legislature

Legislature home page

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/

Bill information - committee reports, amendments, digests, daily bill status, topical index, etc. Contains full text of bills from 1997 - those currently before the legislature. Key word searching is available

Revised Code of Washington (RCW)

http://www.legalwa.org or http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/

Full text of the current Washington code. Search by title, chapter or keyword.

Washington Administrative Code (WAC)

http://www.legalwa.org or http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/

Full text of the current Washington code. Search by title, chapter or keyword.

Washington State Register

http://www1.leg.wa.gov/CodeReviser/Washington+State+Register/

Includes proposed, emergency, and adopted rules, executive orders, etc.

City and County Municipal Codes

http://www.mrsc.org/codes.aspx

Municipal Research & Services Center (MRSC)

Washington Attorney General Opinions

http://www.atg.wa.gov/page.aspx?id=1738

Contains AG opinions back to 1949

Washington Growth Management Hearings Board Decisions

http://www.gmhb.wa.gov/

Contains Growth Management Hearings Board decisions from 1992 to present.

Washington State Courts

http://www.courts.wa.gov

Comprehensive site for general court information, court rules, and selected forms.

http://www.courts.wa.gov/appellate_trial_courts/supreme/?fa=atc_supreme.style

Reporter of Decisions Style Sheet

http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions

Recent Supreme and Appellate Court slip opinions.

http://www.legalwa.org

Washington Court Rules and Supreme and Appellate Court Decisions including Territorial and 1st series cases (Caution: this is an unofficial database that does not mirror the report of the opinions in the official reports.)

http://www.courts.wa.gov/forms

Washington Legal Forms - domestic, protection orders, criminal, appellate

http://www.courts.wa.gov/court_dir/

Washington Court Directory

http://www.tvw.org

Public TV: Coverage of State Government, Agency and Supreme Court Hearings

http://www.courts.wa.gov/court_dir/?fa=court_dir.facils

Family Law Facilitator List

http://dw.courts.wa.gov/index.cfm?fa=home.resources

Self Help Resources and Links

Washington State Law Library

http://www.courts.wa.gov/library

Legal research guides, research assistance, catalog and "chat".

Washington State Bar Association

http://www.wsba.org

Consumer pamphlets, self-help guides, lawyer link (bankruptcy, criminal law, dissolution, landlord-tenant, legal fees, marriage, probate, real estate, trusts, wills

Other states

Statutes

http://www.law.cornell.edu/statutes.html

Federal and State constitutions, statutes and codes.

Opinions, Statutes etc.

http://www.washlaw.edu

Comprehensive sites of addresses for state court opinions.

City, County and Municipal Codes

http://www.mrsc.org

Municipal Research & Service Center (MSRC)

Federal Materials

http://www.firstgov.gov

Official website for searching the U.S. Government

http://thomas.loc.gov

Full text of legislation, amendments, committee reports, bill summary and status.

http://www.house.gov/house/govsites.html

House of Representatives Internet Law Library: federal law, law of states by subject. With links to state codes.

Federal Register

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

Key word search.

US Code

http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml

U.S. Code

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode

Includes full text of US code. Access by key word search.

Statutes at Large

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsl.html

U.S. Statutes for the first 43 Congresses (1789-1875)

Code of Federal Regulations

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr

National Archives and Records Administration site. Includes: Federal Register, Public Laws, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, and more.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/cfr

A browse-able front end to the CFR materials on the GPO Access site. May work a bit better; easier to navigate, and understand than the GPO site.

Federal Courts

http://www.uscourts.gov

Has links to US Supreme Ct., Ct. of appeals, District Ct. & Bankruptcy Ct. Sites. Includes information on court structure, electronic filings, history, etc.

http://openjurist.org

United States Supreme Court and United States Courts of Appeals from the First, Second and Third series of The Federal Reports

U.S. Supreme Court

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html

Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court; 1990-present, current term, & selected cases; 1937
1975, vol. 300-422 U.S. Reports

http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/resources.html

Search and view full text of Supreme Court Decisions issued since 1893

U.S. Court of Appeals

http://www.uscourts.gov/links.html

The Federal Courts links

U.S Court of Appeals 9th Circuitp

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov

The 9th Circuit

Other Starting Points

http://washingtonlawhelp.org/

Legal research site for non-attorneys primarily low income persons

http://lib.law.washington.edu

Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington

http://www.law.cornell.edu/

Comprehensive research site

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/index.html

University of Michigan Federal Documents Center.

http://www.loc.gov/law/public/law.html

Law Library of Congress, International Legal and General Information.

http://www.martindale.com

National lawyer directory

http://www.findlaw.com

Legal research on many U.S. topics

http://www.megalaw.com

Legal research on many U.S. topics

http://www.hg.org>

Hieros Gamos - International resources

http://law.usc.edu/library/resources/journals.cfm

University of Southern California -Periodical website

 
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