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US Courts
Official US Judiciary web site. Links to various courts.

Federal Judicial Center
Federal courts' agency for research and continuing education." est. 1967

Supreme Court
United States Reports - JU 6.8:
1920 to present
1789 - present - 3rd floor, New Stacks
LexisNexis Academic - Legal Research (UVA Only) -- index and full text of all Supreme Court opinions
1991 - present - available via the Supreme Court's web site

Contains the majority, dissenting, and concurring opinions of the Supreme Court. The Court terms start the Second Monday in October and are numbered for the year in which they begin, i.e., the October 1980 term ended in July of 1981. Supreme Court citations are to volume of the US Reports and page number, for example "324 US 456."
Older Supreme Court decisions were published privately and may be referred to as Dallas, Cranch, Wheaton, Peters, Howard, Black, or Wallace.

• Slip Opinions - JU 6.8/b: docket number
  3rd floor, New Stacks
  First official printed version of Supreme Court opinions. Alderman does not retain once the bound US Reports volume has been received. These do circulate.
• Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court - KF8742 .W567 1997
  GIR Reading Room, Post 10
  Good overview and introduction to the Supreme Court.
• Hermes Archive
  Supreme Court decisions since 1990. Texts are usually available in ASCII and PDF formats. Syllabus and dissenting opinions are provided. - Cornell Legal Information Institute.
• GPO Access
  Contains searchable databases of Supreme Court decisions from 1937-1975 and 1992 - 2000.
• Oyez Project
  U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database. Provides audio oral arguments for selected cases from 1956 to the present. Provides biographical information on justices, past and present - Northwestern University.
• HeinOnline: Includes PDF versions of Supreme Court opinions from 1 U.S. through slip opinions.