Judicial Online Resources

United States Federal Judicial Resources

• Federal Judiciary Homepage – Site functions as a clearinghouse for the United States Judicial Branch and court website resources/links.
• Courts.Net – Provides links to court-created sites at the trial level, as well as most of the sites maintained by state and federal appellate courts.
• Database of civil trials – Utilizes a database of about 3.7 million federal district-court civil cases terminated over the last 17 fiscal years.
• Department of Justice – Information on consumer fraud, disabilities, discrimination, ADR, domestic violence, immigration, prison/parole and more.
• Federal Court Law Review – An electronic law review dedicated to legal scholarship relating to federal courts. Articles are from scholars, judges and distinguished practitioners.
• Federal Judicial Center – Provides a biographical database of federal judges, histories of the federal courts, and historical documents related to the judicial branch of government.
• Federal Magistrate Judges Association – General Federal Magistrate Judges information, news, and related links.
• Institute for Civil Justice – A service from RAND.
• Judicial Administration – Index of links compiled by the Legal Information Institute.
• Judicial Ethics – Index of links compiled by the Legal Information Institute.
• Judicial Powers Information Sources5 U.S.C. 703: Judicial Review of Agency Actions
  • 28 U.S.C.: Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
  • Constitution, Article III: Judicial power of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Decisions About the Role of Federal Courts
• National Center for State Courts – Index of state courts, federal courts, international courts, court news, and general information about the courts.
• PACER – Directory of electronic public access services to automated information in the United States Federal Courts.
• The Third Branch – Is a newsletter published by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
• United States Sentencing Commission – Website contains links to state sentencing commissions, guidelines, manuals, educational materials, news, reports to congress, and more.

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