FEDERAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION

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This page contains links to federal legislative, judicial, and governmental information. It is divided into five sections: Federal Agency Information; Codes, Statutes, and Legislation; Congressional Information; Decisions, Opinions, and Judicial Information; and Legal Research Aids. The Fast Access Table of Contents [below] contains clickable links to each of the five sections.

FEDERAL AGENCY INFORMATION

FEDERAL BULLETIN BOARD
(Immediate access to full-text federal information in electronic format; from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publications Office)

THE FEDERAL WEB LOCATOR
(Federal Agency Information, including many lesser-known Centers, Councils, Commissions, and Laboratories; from the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy at Villanova University)

FEDWORLD
(Vast compilation of links to federal agency information, reports, and decisions; keyword searchable)

CODES, STATUTES, AND LEGISLATION

CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS (CFR)
(Current federal regulations, codified; searchable; from the National Archives and Records Administration)

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
(Accessible by article and section; searchable; from Emory University)

EXECUTIVE ORDERS
(Presidential executive orders issued by President George W. Bush)

gov.us.fed.nara.fed-register.presidential
(Newsgroup featuring presidential proclamations, notices, memoranda, and orders, as published in the Federal Register)

GPO ACCESS DATABASES
(Includes access to the Federal Register in full-text (Vol. 59, 1994 - Present), full-text Congressional Record (Vol. 140, 1994 - Present ) and Index (1983 - Present), Congressional Bills, Reports, Documents (103rd Congress - Present), Economic Indicators, GAO Reports, GAO Comptroller General Decisions, Government Manual, History of Bills (1983 - Present) and the U.S. Code; from the U.S. Government Printing Office)

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
(Beginning with the 104th Congress, includes access to all versions of U.S. House and Senate Bills [searchable by topic, popular/short title, or bill number/type], lists of major bills enacted, bill summaries and status, public laws by law number, the Congressional Record and Index [full-text], and Congressional committee reports; from the U.S. Congress)

U.S. CODE
(Federal Law, codified; searchable by title, chapter, subchapter, sections, keywords, fields, or topics; from the U.S. House of Representatives Office of the Law Revision Counsel)

U.S. CODE
(Federal Law, codified; generated from most recent version made available by the U.S. House of Representatives; includes a list of titles and the Table of Popular Names; keyword searchable; from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University)

U.S. STATUTES AT LARGE
(Online collection of 17 volumes of the laws of the first forty-two Congresses, from 1789-1873; arranged by volume and page or by page headings; from the Library of Congress)

CONGRESSIONAL INFORMATION

CAPWEB: Guide to the U.S. Congress
(Congressional information for the 105th Congress; includes directory and committee information for members of the Senate and House of Representatives, a clickable "State Directory Map" which retrieves lists of senators and representatives by name/district on a per-state basis, and links to the official House of Representatives and Senate web sites, the Library of Congress and other Congressional Support Agencies)

CONGRESS.ORG
(Congressional directory and committee information for the 105th Congress; contains separate listings of members of congress, state delegations, and congressional committees; individual listings are accessible by browsing the first initial of last name, state delegations by name of state, and committees by name of committee)

CONGRESSIONAL INFORMATION
(Includes links to the 1995-1996 Congressional Directory; Congressional Pictorial Directory, 105th Congress; Calendars of the Senate and U.S. House of Representatives; History of Legislation; Congressional Record, 1995 to Present; and House, Senate, and Executive Reports and Treaty Documents [searchable]; from the U.S. Government Printing Office)

FEDNET
(Virtual audio access to the U.S. Congress; includes daily schedule and audio access to daily Senate and House of Representatives Floor Debates and Proceedings and House and Senate Committee Hearings)

gov.us.fed.congress.record.digest
(Newsgroup featuring digests from the Congressional Record)

gov.us.fed.congress.record.extensions
(Newsgroup featuring extensions of remarks made in the Congressional Record)

gov.us.fed.congress.record.senate
(Newsgroup featuring Senate pages from the Congressional Record)

gov.us.fed.nara.fed-register.contents
(Newsgroup featuring Tables of Contents and Summaries from the Federal Register)

gov.us.fed.nara.fed-register.corrections
(Newsgroup featuring corrections to the Federal Register)

gov.us.fed.nara.fed-register.notices
(Newsgroup featuring notices from the Federal Register)

gov.us.fed.nara.fed-register.rules
(Newsgroup featuring rule proposals issued by federal agencies, from the Federal Register)

GPO ACCESS DATABASES
(Includes access to the Federal Register in full-text (Vol. 59, 1994 - Present), full-text Congressional Record (Vol. 140, 1994 - Present ) and Index (1983 - Present), Congressional Bills, Reports, Documents (103rd Congress - Present), Economic Indicators, GAO Reports, GAO Comptroller General Decisions, Government Manual, History of Bills (1983 - Present) and the U.S. Code; from the U.S. Government Printing Office)

DECISIONS, OPINIONS, AND JUDICIAL INFORMATION

DECISIONS OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
(Decisions of the Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accounting Office, in text or Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format; listed by B-number and date, arranged in descending order; 1995 - )

gov.us.fed.congress.gao.decisions
(Newsgroup featuring decisions of the Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accounting Office)

DECISIONS OF THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, D.C. CIRCUIT
(Decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, since February 1995; accessible by year/month or party names; keyword searchable; from the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library, Georgetown University)

DECISIONS OF THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, FEDERAL CIRCUIT
(Decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, since August 1995; listed by year/month or party names; keyword searchable; from the Hugh F. Macmillan Law Library, Emory University)

DECISIONS OF THE U.S. COURTS OF APPEALS
(Decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th circuits; most are searchable. See also the U.S. Federal Courts Finder web site, which features a clickable map)

DECISIONS OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, 1893 - PRESENT
(Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1893 - Present [U.S. Reports Vols. 150 - Present]; searchable by citation, party names, or full-text; browsable by year and U.S. Reports volume. Separate listing for 1997 decisions, by party names; from Findlaw. See also Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia website, which offers a case title, citation, or subject search interface to written and/or audio decisions of the Supreme Court, and a variety of other resources)

DECISIONS OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, 1937-1975
(Backfile of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, covering 1937-1975 and vols. 300 - 422 of U.S. Reports; searchable by case name or keyword; same decisions are also available at the GPO Access site.)

DECISIONS OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, 1966-1996
(Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in full-text, 1966-1996; also has leading decisions, 1793-1966; searchable by citation, case name, full text, subject matter, or docket number; includes a subject matter index; site also has a 1996 term Supreme Court Argument Schedule; requires frames support; from InfoSynthesis, Inc.)

DECISIONS OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, 1990 -
(Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in full-text, 1990 to present; searchable; from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University)

DECISIONS OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, 1992 -
(Decisions and Orders of the U.S. Supreme Court, since 1992, in Wordperfect 5.1 format; arranged by Term/Year, Opinions/Decisions, and Orders. Files for latest Supreme Court term are in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format; from the Federal Bulletin Board)

DECISIONS OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, 1999-
(Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1999 - Present; downloadable in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format; from the official site for the Supreme Court of the U.S.)

FEDERAL RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE
(The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, in full-text; arranged by rule number; not searchable; includes associated rules for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; from Calvin House)

FEDERAL RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE
(The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, in full-text; arranged by rule number; from the U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit)

FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE
(The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, in full-text; keyword searchable; from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)

FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
(The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, in full-text; keyword searchable; from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)

SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S.
(Official site of the U.S. Supreme Court; contains a docket, calendar, court rules, case handling guide, opinions, orders, and information about bar admissions)

U.S. COURTS - EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
(Includes a district map, Local Rules, Criminal Justice Act Plan, CJRA Plan, CJRA Court Annexed Mediation Plan, and a description of the Public Access to Court Electronic Records [PACER] fee-based system)

U.S. COURTS - NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
(Includes general information, a section of forms and publications, information about court services such as PACER and a faxing service, and judicial biographies)

U.S. COURTS - SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
(Information about the District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern District of Texas; includes local rules, jury service information, information on admission to the Southern District of Texas Bar, a description of the Public Access to Court Electronic Records [PACER] fee-based system, information on the court's noticing by fax program and court reporting services rate information, and maps to divisional offices)

U.S. COURTS - WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
(Includes general information, local rules, jury information, public notices, and PACER information)

U.S. FEDERAL JUDICIARY
(Information about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government; includes a Directory of Electronic Public Access Services for automated access to U.S. Federal Court information; from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)

LEGAL RESEARCH AIDS

GOVSPOT
(A non-partisan government information portal, with a large selection of links to top government and civic resources)

LEXIS.COM
(Web-based version of LEXIS; hundreds of databases for conducting legal research; fee-based)

META-INDEX FOR U.S. LEGAL RESEARCH
(Compilation of quick and easy search interfaces (keyword or boolean) for U.S. Supreme Court Syllabi, Federal Circuit Opinions, Federal Courts of Appeals Decisions, the U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Record, Law Reviews, Legal Directories; from the Georgia State University College of Law)

WESTLAW
(Web-based version of Westlaw; hundreds of databases for conducting legal research; fee-based; from the West Group)