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The U.S. Supreme Court was established by Article III of the U.S. Constitution, which vested in it and in any inferior courts it establishes the judicial power of the U.S.
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U.S. Supreme
Court decisions
The sites below offer
U.S. Supreme Court decisions online; most also offer other Supreme
Court resources such as oral argument calendars, session calendars,
Supreme Court news, information about sitting Justices of the
Court, and other information.
- U.S. Supreme Court Decisions (1893-present). Findlaw's Supreme Court site; full text of cases plus other Supreme Court resources.
- U.S. Supreme
Court Decisions (1990-present). Provided by Cornell University's
Legal Information Institute.
Also includes selected previous decisions. Court calendars and
other resources also available.
- Search Supreme Court Archive
- Selected Historic (pre-1990) Decisions
- Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Staying Current with the U.S. Supreme Court. information on subscribing to email distribution lists which provide syllabi of Supreme Court decisions on the date of decision.
- Gallery of Justices. with biographical information on sitting Justices.
- U.S. Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975 (FedWorld/FLITE). Includes over 7000 U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating from 1937 to 1975 and covering volumes 300-422 of U.S. Reports.
- USSC Plus - U.S. Supreme Court on the Web. Full coverage of cases from 1897 to the present; leading cases from 1793-1896. Other Supreme Court and constitutional law resources are also available.
- Oyez Project: A Supreme Court WWW Resource. Jerry Goldman at Northwestern University provides this archive of oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court (requires RealAudio, which can be downloaded for free.); Currently recordings from about 60 cases, with background information on each, are available. Plans are to eventually make available some 700 hours of recordings from 500 cases.
- Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions. From GPO Access.
- Supreme Court. Links to resources from Fedlaw.
Background
information on the U.S. Supreme Court
This list primarily
provides links to background information, news, and resource
listings; for links to U.S. Supreme Court decisions, see above.
- U.S. Supreme Court. Background information on the U.S. Supreme Court, including its constitutional authority, jurisdiction, rules governing presentation of cases to it, and biographical information (including photographs) of the Justices currently sitting on the Court. From Cornell University's Legal Information Institute, which also provides access to U.S. Supreme Court Decisions (1990-present).
- Inside the Supreme Court. The Washington Post's history of the Supreme Court, who's who of Supreme Court justices past and present, how the court works, and notable decisions.
- Certiorari Granted. From Lawyers Weekly. Summaries of cases which the Supreme Court has decided to hear.
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News from the Washington Post
News, analysis,
term previews and reviews, and links to decisions from the Washington Post.