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Federal case law (via LexisNexis Academic)
Full text opinions of
all Supreme Court cases since 1790. Supreme Court Briefs; Supreme
Court Previews; Court of Appeals: All case law from the U.S.
Circuit Courts; District Courts: All case law from U.S. District
Courts for all 50 States from 1789 to current, the District of Columbia, the
District Court for Puerto Rico, the District Court for the Virgin Islands, the
District Court for Guam, and the District Court for the Mariana Islands, Customs
& Patent Appeals, 1949-1982; Court of International Trade; Bankruptcy Courts:
Case law from October 1979 through March 1999; Tax Courts, 1942-; Court
of Veteran Appeals, 1989-1999; Customs Courts, 1962-1980; Commerce Court, 1911-13;
Military: Cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
and the Courts of Criminal Appeals for the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard and
Navy-Marine (formerly known as Courts of Military Review), 1951-
State case law (via LexisNexis Academic)
Casemaker: Case law for 50 states, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, recent federal appellate, district court and bankruptcy opinions. Available at the public access terminals in the law library, or with a Casemaker username and password. Casemaker is free with an Ohio State Bar membership. Law students can join the Ohio State Bar Association for free.
Selected Internet
federal case law sites:
United States Supreme
Court Opinions :
Where to obtain U.S. Supreme Court Opinions - a document of all the published print and electronic sources for the court's opinions.
U.S. Supreme Court's web site Opinions from the 2000 term to date
Other sources include:
Ohio is in the Sixth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals .
United States District Court, Northern District, for the State of Ohio is the federal trial court serving Northeast Ohio. Its web site contains forms and selected notable cases.
United
States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Ohio - Includes bankruptcy
case information, forms, and publications .
FindLaw provides links to searchable databases of federal appellate court opinions by circuit ( Sixth Circuit, 1995 to date) and web sites of the district courts.
LexisOne provides access to federal case law for the past five years.
Altlaw provides appellate cases go back 8-15 years, depending on the jurisdiction. Altlaw has a better search mechanism than LII or Findlaw. District court cases may be added in the future.
Ohio case law (via LexisNexis Academic)
Casemaker:
Unreported
decisions from 1981, Reported Ohio Supreme Court from 1894, Appellate Reports
from 1934, Ohio Misc. from 1999. Available at the public access terminals
in the law library, or with a Casemaker username and password. Casemaker is
free with an Ohio State Bar membership. Law students can join the
Ohio State Bar Association for free.
Ohio Supreme Court : The
Court's web site. Opinions issued since 1992. Full text searchable.
Ohio Appellate Courts : Select specific district in pull-down menu at the Ohio Supreme Court web site (for recent decisions; years available vary.) Full text searchable.
Eighth District (Cuyahoga County) Ohio Court of Appeals (Court Web site) or
Ohio Appellate Courts (Ohio Supreme Court web site) Select Eighth District in pull-down menu for decisions since 2000. Full text searchable.
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas - Civil Case Docket and
Cuyahoga County Probate Court - online access to its docket.