Legal Resource Center

• Supreme Court of the US: information about the court & justices, opinions,   orders, court rules, calendars, docket, & transcripts
• FindLaw Supreme Court Center: docket sheet, oral argument transcripts, &   briefs
• ABA Supreme Court Preview: merit briefs, advance look at issues raised in cases   slated for oral argument, & selected full-text articles about pending cases
• LII Supreme Court Collection: maintained by Cornell Law School; contains   current & historic decisions, summary of questions presented

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U.S. Court of Appeal

Federal Judiciary Home Page

• Search all US Circuit Court of Appeals opinions on the Internet

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U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts

Minnesota
• U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota
• Minnesota Bankruptcy Court
• Finding Court Opinions on the Web: maintained by National Law Journal

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Docket Information

• PACER Web Links (login & password needed): access to court dockets
• Court Rules, Forms, & Dockets: maintained by LLRX

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Judicial Information

Minnesota State Court System

Minnesota Supreme Court
• Supreme Court Opinions: opinions available after 1:00 pm on Thursdays; docket number links to full text
• Supreme Court Calendar: descriptions of cases scheduled for oral argument

Minnesota Court of Appeals
• Court of Appeals Opinions & list of order opinions: available after 1:00 pm on Tuesdays; docket number links to full text
• Court of Appeals Calendar
• Special Term Opinion Subject Matter Index
• Standards of Review
• Archive: Opinions by date, docket number, first party name, or keyword
• Minnesota Tax Court
• Minnesota Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals
• Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board & Office

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Links to Court Rules

• Minnesota Court Rules
• US Supreme Court Rules
• Federal Rulemaking
• Eighth Circuit and local rules for federal courts
• US District Court
• US Bankruptcy Court for Minnesota: local rules
• Court Rules, Forms, & Dockets maintained by LLRX

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Links to Court Forms

• Minnesota court forms
• Tax Court forms
• Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
• US District Court for Minnesota
• Official Bankruptcy forms
• US Bankruptcy Court for Minnesota local forms

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Ethics & Professional Conduct

• Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board & Office
• MN Rules of Professional Conduct
• MN Rules on Lawyers Professional Responsibility
• Opinions of the LPRB
• Finance & Commerce
• Bench & Bar
• ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
• ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct
• Summaries of recent ABA opinions
• American Legal Ethics Library
• Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers
• Legal Ethics
• National Organization of Bar Counsel

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Legislative Information

Minnesota

• Minnesota State Legislature
• Minnesota Statutes
• General Information
• Revisor’s Manual with Styles & Forms
• Legislative History Step-by-Step

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Federal

Congress

• THOMAS: Library of Congress
• GPO Access, U.S. Congress
• House of Representatives
• Senate
• U.S. Congress. Senate, House, & Executive Reports
• Elected Officials Directory
• Biographical Directory of the US Congress

Federal Statutes

• U.S. Code: Search or browse
• U.S. Code Classification Tables
• U.S. Code maintained by Cornell Law School with a Table of Popular Names
• Compiled Acts with Amendments (contains cites to U.S. Code sections):
     • Agricultural compilations: Provided by the U.S. Senate Committee on        Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
     • Environmental: Links to full-text of some amended acts, such as NEPA,        compiled by EPA
     • Social Security Laws: a compilation including the Social Security Act, as        amended, & related enactments through 1 January 1999
     • Telecommunications Act of 1934 with 1996 amendments

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Local

• St. Paul Ordinances
• Minnesota County & Municipal Ordinances
• Municipal Codes on the Internet
• Municipal Ordinances

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Federal Executive & Administrative Law

Today's Federal Register Table of Contents:

• PDF format
• With links to the full-text
• Federal Register Online via GPO Access
• Regulations.gov
• Code of Federal Regulations
     • Retrieve by citation
     • browse by title
List of Sections Affected
• Latest Accumulation
• Last Month's Changes
• Current Month's Changes
• Executive Order Disposition Table
• GPO Access
• Federal Administrative Decisions maintained by the Law Library at the   University of Virginia

Federal Agencies & Services

• USA.Gov Executive Branch
• SearchGov.com
• FedWorld
• Copyright Information
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Federal Communications Commission
• Food & Drug Administration
• General Accounting Office
• Internal Revenue Service
• Electronic Reading Room
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• CMS Manuals
• National Criminal Justice Reference Center (NCJRS)
• Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission
• Office of Management & Budget
• Securities & Exchange Commission
• U.S. Department of Justice
• U.S. Patents & Trademark Office
• The White House

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Minnesota Executive & Administrative Law

Minnesota Official Notices & Rules

• Minnesota Rules
• Minnesota State Register every Monday

Minnesota Rulemaking Guides

• Minnesota Rules Drafting Manual with Styles & Forms
• Rulemaking in Minnesota: A Guide
• Minnesota Rulemaking Manual

Minnesota Administrative Decisions

• Office of Administrative Hearings: includes a form to search ALJ decisions
• A.G. Opinions
• Commissioner of Administration Advisory Opinions
• Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure Board: formerly the Ethical Practices Board
• Minnesota Department of Revenue. Minnesota Revenue Notices

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Selected Minnesota Agency Information

• North Star Minnesota Government Information & Services
• Minnesota Guidebook to State Agency Services
• Attorney General's Office
• A.G. Consumer Division
• Department of Human Services
• Department of Trade & Economic Development
• Compare Minnesota
• Office of Geographic & Demographic Analysis
• MnSCU Policies & Procedures

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Library Catalogs, Indexes, Files

Mn PALS Libraries
State Agencies, State Ccolleges & Universities, Hill Reference

• A.G. Library Catalog
• State Law Library Catalog Information
• Legislative Reference Library Catalog Information
• Historical Society Library Catalog Information
• All state agency libraries Catalog Information
• Hill Reference Library Catalog Information
• All MnPALS libraries Catalog

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Law School Libraries

• University of Minnesota Catalog Information
• Hamline University Law Library Catalog Information
• St. Thomas Law Library Catalog Information
• William Mitchell College of Law Catalog Information

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County Law Libraries

• Dakota County Law Library Catalog Information
• Hennepin County Law Library Catalog Information
• Washington County Law Library Catalog Information
• Directory of Minnesota County Law Libraries

Public Libraries

• Anoka County Public Library Catalog Information
• Carver County Public Library Catalog Information
• Dakota County Public Library Catalog Information
• Hennepin County Public Library Catalog Information
• Minneapolis Public Library Catalog Information
• Ramsey County Public Library Catalog Information
• St. Paul Public Library Catalog Information
• Washington County Public Library Catalog Information

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Periodical Indexes
(May require passwords or authorization)

• MNLink: Minnesota library gateway includes indexes to newspapers & periodicals in all subject areas & includes full text of many articles
• MEDLINE Plus: maintained by the National Library of Medicine
• PubMed: search MEDLINE from the National Library of Medicine
• Minnesota Magazine Index: maintained by the Minneapolis Public Library
• UnCover: 17,000 journals; search by author, title, or keyword in title or summary

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Legal Sites: General

• Cornell Legal Information Institute maintained by Cornell University
• Jurist: maintained by University of Pittsburgh, School of Law; real time legal news
• Law.com
• Lawyers Weekly
• WashLaw maintained by Washburn Law School

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Law Reviews & Journals

• Bench & Bar of Minnesota
• Minnesota Lawyer
• Law Journals maintained by Washburn Law School

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News

• Minnesota Newspapers: all Minnesota newspapers
• Star Tribune: read today's news or search 14-day archive
• St. Paul PioneerPlanet: read today's news or browse 7-day archive
• Duluth News-Tribune: read today's news
• The Business Journal (formerly Mpls/St. Paul CityBusiness)
• Minnesota Lawyer: weekly legal news from Finance & Commerce
• Minnesota Daily: daily news from the University of Minnesota
• AlltheWeb News
• AJR News Link
• Editor & Publisher
• Newspaper Archives
• HeadlineSpot
• CNN
• CBS Headlines
• New York Times
• News from Reuters
• USA Today
• Washington Post

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Directories

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Geographical
• Area Decoder
• Directory of County Court Houses in the U.S.
• Geographic Names Information System
• Minnesota City/County/Township Search
• Zip Code Directory
• Zip Code Finder

Government: Minnesota
• White Pages Staff Directory
• Yellow Pages
• Minnesota Blue Book (Legislative Manual)

Legislature
• District Finder from the MN Legislature
• District Finder from the UofM
• 2006 Election Directory of the 2007/2008 MN Legislature
• Legislators Past & Present
• Registered Lobbyists & Associations

Government: Federal and Nationwide
• Elected Officials Directory
• Congressional Biographical
• Congressional Pictorial
• Find Your Representative
• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
• U.S. Government Manual
• U.S. Mayors
• Who's Who in Federal Government: maintained by University of Memphis

Judges

Minnesota
• Minnesota Judges
• Tax Court
• Hennepin County
• Office of Administrative Hearings
• LawMoose Minnesota Judges Directory
• Judges Biographies

Federal
• Judges of the US Courts

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Reference

Dictionaries

Legal
• Law.com Dictionary: Real Life Dictionary of the Law
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law: maintained by FindLaw
• Specialty Dictionaries - Law: links to other legal dictionaries

General
• American Heritage Dictionary
• Roget Thesaurus
• Dictionary by Reference.com
• Merriam Webster Online
• Acronym Finder

General Reference Web Sites
• All-in-One Desk Reference
• Answers.com
• Fugitive Fact File
• GPO Style Manual
• Librarians' Internet Index
• RefDesk.Com

Encyclopedias
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encarta Encyclopedia
• Minnesota Place Names

Quotations
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations

Statistics & Rankings
• Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
• American FactFinder
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Criminal Justice Statistics
• FedStats
• Minnesota Data & Maps
• Minnesota Facts & Figures
• Minnesota Health Statistics
• MinnStats
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Population Reference Bureau
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

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Public Records

• Minnesota Secretary of State On-line Access:
• Business Filings Databases
• Secretaries of State
• State & Local Government
• Free Internet Access to Government Public Records
• Social Security Death Index
• Vital Records Information

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Search Engines

• Alta Vista
• Ask.com
• Excite
• Google
• Go.com
• Ixquick: a meta search site
• LawCrawler searches only legal sites on the Internet
• Lycos
• Mamma: uses Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler, Yahoo, & HotBot
• MetaCrawler sends queries to multiple search engines simultaneously
• SearchGov.com: another way to find state or federal government agencies
• USAGov: search or browse for agencies
• WebBrain: suggests resources & related concepts based on keyword searches
• Webcrawler
• YAHOO