Federal Court Opinions
LexisNexis
Choose Legal Research. Use the Federal Case Law search form. Each court is covered from the court's inception, to present. Federal cases are organized by court as follows:
- Supreme Court, 1790 to present
- Courts of Appeals, 1789 to present
- District Courts, from 1789 to present
- Customs and Patent Appeals, from January 1952 to September 1982
- Court of International Trade, from November 1980 to present
- Court of Veteran Appeals, from December 1989 to present
- Tax Courts, from 1924 to present
- Bankruptcy Courts, from October 1979 to present
- Customs Courts, from June 1962 to October 1980
- Commerce Courts, from 1911 to 1913
- Military, from 1951 to present
Federal Court Opinions on the Web
U.S. Supreme Court
- Legal Information Institute Cornell Law School
- FLITE database (full-text U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1937 to 1975) provided by FedWorld.gov
- Full text opinions, U.S. Supreme Court cases FindLaw
- Oyez : U.S. Supreme Court multimedia - information about major U.S. Supreme Court cases, 1961 to date; includes links to Supreme Court audio from 1995, the Oyez Superme Court podcast, and the Oyez RSS feed.
U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals
| Circuit | FindLaw Link | States, Territories covered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Circuit | target="_blank"Findlaw | Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Puerto Rico |
| 2nd Circuit | Findlaw | Connecticut, New York, Vermont |
| 3rd Circuit | Findlaw | Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, U.S. Virgin Islands |
| 4th Circuit | Findlaw | Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina |
| 5th Circuit | Findlaw | Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas |
| 6th Circuit | Findlaw | Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee |
| 7th Circuit | Findlaw | Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin |
| 8th Circuit | Findlaw | North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas |
| 9th Circuit | Findlaw | Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California, Nevada, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Northern Mariana islands |
| 10th Circuit | Findlaw | Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma |
| 11th Circuit | Findlaw | Alabama, Georgia, Florida |
| D.C. Circuit | Findlaw | District of Columbia |
| Federal Circuit | FindLaw | nationwide jurisdiction in a variety of subject areas including international trade, government contracts, patents, and trademarks |
| All Circuits | varies by court | U.S. map, with links to courts sites (Emory) |
| All Circuits | varies by court | Search All U.S. Circuit Court Opinions on the Internet (Georgetown Law Library) |
Other Federal Courts
- U.S. District Courts
- U.S. Bankruptcy Courts
- U.S. Tax Court
- Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Judicially independent, although it &is located for administrative purposes only in the Department of Defense of Defense", the Court exercises jurisdiction to review court-martial cases on direct appellate review, entertains and acts on petitions for extraordinary relief, writ appeal petitions (in which a Court of Criminal Appeals has acted on a petition for extradordinary relief), and petitions for review of decisions of the Courts of Criminal Appeals in cases in which the United States has exercised its right to appeal certain rulings of a military judge during the course of a court-martial trial. In such cases, further review by the Supreme Court of the United States on petition for certiorari is limited to those instances in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has granted relief. - United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
This Court can review final decisions of the Board of Veterans Appeals. Parties may appeal from a decision of the Court to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and, thereafter, may seek review in the Supreme Court of the United States.
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