U.S. Supreme Court Center

Supreme Court Decisions Databases

• Cornell Law School – Searchable database of cases from 1990 to present.
• Federal Bulletin Board – Opinions and related documents in WordPerfect 5.1, ASCII and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document (PDF) format, 1993 to 1998.
• FedWorld/FLITE: – Search and view full text of Supreme Court decisions issued between 1937 and 1975.
• Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decision – through 1992

U.S. Supreme Court Resources

• United States Supreme Court – The official site with the ability to search court rules, opinions, orders, and view their calendar & schedules.
  • Oral Arguments – Court calendar, day call, hearing lists, argument transcripts, and information on how to find briefs.
• Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States – from MegaLaw.com.
• The Federal Judiciary – Website maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
• Office of the Solicitor General – Including briefs submitted to the Supreme Court from 1982 to 1996.
• The Supreme Court Historical Society – Designed to expand the public’s awareness of the history and heritage of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• Multimedia Database – Court cases, history, justice information and FAQ’s from the Oyez Project of Northwestern University.
  • On The Docket – Includes cases pending before the Supreme Court, information provided by attorneys and parties in the cases, dates for scheduled oral arguments, the questions presented to the Court and citations for the lower court opinions.

Justice Biographies

• Chief Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist
• Justice John Paul Stevens
• Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
• Justice Antonin Scalia
• Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
• Justice David Hackett Souter
• Justice Clarence Thomas
• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Justice Stephen Breyer

Other Related Resources

• Meet the Justices – Inside the Supreme Court with ABC News.
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1998-99 – Cornell’s Supreme Court Justice pictures, biographies, and lists of decisions by the current members of the Court.
• New York Times Supreme Court Justice Profiles
• The Current Justices – Biographical information from the Oyez Project of Northwestern University.

Supreme Court Related News Sources

• C-Span’s Law/Courts
• Findlaw’s Supreme Court News
• LA Times
• New York Times’ Crime and Courts – Registration Required
• Washington Post
• USATODAY.com Supreme Court – Registration Required
• Yahoo! Supreme Court News

Note: We linked the resources to archive.org in an effort to decrease the number of broken links cited.