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Related Links: The Judiciary
 
http://supremecourtus.gov
The Supreme Court’s official site, with decisions and opinions posted the day they are announced.

http://oyez.nwu.edu/
This excellent site has biographies of all the Supreme Court justices, current and previous. It is a multimedia site, where you can hear the marshal cry "Oyez, oyez," listen to oral arguments in important cases, take a virtual tour of the Court, and search for Court decisions by subject, date, or citation.

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
This site, developed by Cornell University, contains biographies of all the Supreme Court justices. It provides links to summaries of recent key decisions and the text of actual decisions.

http://www.findlaw.com
FindLaw offers a free searchable database of Supreme Court decisions since 1907.

http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~llibcoll/ndms
To date, the decisions of only one U.S. district court—the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi—are published on the Web. These decisions, are published by the University of Mississippi School of Law Library in cooperation with the court.

http://www.washlaw.edu/
Increasingly, decisions of the state courts are also becoming available online. You can search through the texts of state cases that are on the Internet, as well as federal cases and state and federal laws, by accessing WashLaw.

http://www.uscourts.gov/
Learn more about the federal court system. This is the home page for the federal courts. Among other things, you can follow the "path" a case takes as it moves through the federal court system.

http://www.courttv.com/
Court TV’s Web site offers information ranging from its program schedule and how you can find Court TV in your area to famous cases and the wills of famous people. For each case it includes on the site, it gives a complete history as well as selected documents filed with the court and court transcripts.