Supreme Court Resources

Supreme Court Resources

	Encyclopedias, Handbooks & Dictionaries
Ref KF8742 W567	*Guide to the Supreme Court. 2 v. 2004. Congressional Quarterly's history of the Supreme Court including its establishment and evolution, operations and traditions, and the role of the justices. Brief biographies of each of the justices. Appendices with chronological documents and texts, court compositions, and significant decisions.] Supreme Court at Work* [Ref KF8742.S912] is an abbreviated version of this.
Ref KF8742 R45	*Reference Guide to the United States Supreme Court*. 1986. Role of the Supreme Court, division of power, individual rights, landmark cases, and justice biographies.
Ref KF8742 A35.S8	*Supreme Court A to Z*. 1998. Concise information about the history, powers, and operations of the Supreme Court.
Ref KF8744 F75	*Justices of the United States Supreme Court 1789 - 1969: Their Lives and Major Opinions*. 1969. 4 v.
Ref KF8742 P32	*Facts about the Supreme Court of the United States*. 1996. Significant decisions and the accompanying role of the Supreme Court Justices that rendered them. Chronologically arranged.
Ref KF4114 Z57	Digest of Supreme Court Decisions Affecting Education. 1995. Summaries of cases including facts, holding and basis for each. Arranged by topics including school district governance, church-state, civil rights, and discrimination.
Ref KF4150 A7.R37	We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About Students. 2000. Arranged by topics in the context of the Constitution and how it has been interpreted regarding public school students. Covers issues such a religion, integration, discipline, harassment, and freedom of expression.
Ref KF4758 A7.S87	Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights. 2001. Arranged by topics including sex discrimination, women in the family, and pregnancy and childbirth. Introduction to each topic with exemplary cases.
Ref KF4548 O97	Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. 1999. Analysis of the 440 most important cases in the Court's history with case and topical indexes; tables on justice selection and service; glossary of terms.
Ref KF4549 L58	*Landmark Supreme Court Cases: A Reference Guide*. 1999.
Ref KF4549 M334	Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court. 2000. 90 cases including decision, background, vote, highlights and impact for each. Arranged by constitutional issue.
Ref KF8741 A152.S87	Supreme Court Yearbook. 1994/95 - Each volume covers a term, including case summaries, impact of major cases, and opinion excerpts.
	Text of Supreme Court Decisions
	*LexisNexis Academic* Click on Legal Research. Next, choose Get a Case or Federal Case Law.
Ref KF101.1 D5	*U.S. Supreme Court Digest, annotated.* 1948- Subject guide to Supreme Court decisions covering 1-422 US, 1-100 L Ed, 1-45 L Ed 2d, 1-95 S Ct : with cumulative pocket supplements : table of cases
KF101 A313 Suppl.	United States Supreme Court Reports. Lawyer's edition. Quick case table with annotation references. Annual. 1991- An alphabetical list of cases with annotations.
KF101 A313	U.S. Supreme Court Reports. Lawyers' edition. 1790 - 1955. Opinions of the Supreme Court with annotations.
KF101 A313 Ser. 2	U.S. Supreme Court Reports. *Lawyers' edition. 2nd Series*. 1956 - Opinions of the Supreme Court with annotations.
Ref KF175 U5	U.S. Law Week. 1975- Provides official slip opinions and other current Supreme Court case information. Subject and case indexes.
	Current Court Activities
	*Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research* http://www.llrx.com/features/supremectwebguide.htm "This Web Guide attempts to overcome the shortcomings of general web searching by providing a selection of annotated links to the most reliable, substantive sites for U.S. Supreme Court research. The sites mentioned here focus predominantly on information that is freely, or inexpensively, available on the Internet." - from the Web site
	*Supreme Court of the United States*. http://www.supremecourtus.gov Home page of the Supreme Court; docket information; court schedule & calendar; court rules; bench opinions 1999-2000.
	Washington Post Online: Supreme Court. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400136.html Articles on key cases 1996/97-, docket, history, links & resources, case search feature.
	Articles on the Supreme Court
	Begin on the Cook Library home page at http://cooklibrary.towson.edu Under Find Articles, click on By Database Title .
	*LexisNexis Academic* Click on Legal Research. Click on Law Reviews.
	*Academic Search/ Social Sciences Abstracts* [Ebsco] Do a combined search using both of these databases simultaneously. Search for abstracts and some full text articles on the Supreme Court and current major cases from magazines and journals in various disciplines including Political Science, Law and History.
	*America: History and Life* Search for abstracts of articles from scholarly journals in History and selected Political Science journals.

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