Executive/Administrative - Legal Research on the Web
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State and Federal:
- From the Select Sources pulldown menu, pick:
Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register (July 1980-current), Federal Acquisition Regs OR - From the Sources Tab, specify geographic region and publications desired. Method 2 is the only way to get State Administrative Codes, State Attorney General and Federal and State Agency decisions.
Available in the law library to the public. Available remotely with a CSU ID and Scholar PIN.
Casemaker:
Available at the public access terminals in the law library, or with a Casemaker username and password. Contains the Code of Federal Regulations, Ohio Administrative Code, Ohio Attorney General Opinions and regulations and attorney general opinions for selected other states.
Available at the public access terminals in the law library, or remotely with a Casemaker username and password.
Federal
The President
- Executive Orders
- Sources of Presidential Signing Statements
- The White House - whitehouse.gov
Agencies
- The Code of Federal Regulations is available via :
E-CFR (most up to date); G.P.O. Access(1996-current); HeinOnline (1938-almost current); FindLaw(most recent available, some prior years) - The Federal Register is available via:
U.S. Government site; FDsys (1994- )- Search or Browse; HeinOnline; FindLaw. (Years vary at each site.) - A-Z Index of U.S. Government Depts. & Agencies - via USA.gov
- Federal Agency Directory - via Louisiana State University.
- List of Cabinet Offices/Departments - Whitehouse>Our Government>Executive Branch
- CyberCemetery - Websites of Defunct Government Agencies
- The Government's Attic - collection of government documents obtained via the FOIA, contains agency documents
Federal Agency Decisions:
- Federal Agency Directory - via Louisiana State University. Direct links to decisions.
- Executive Branch Web Resources
- Cleveland Law Library - United States Departments
- Heinonline's U.S. Federal Agency Library contains agency decisions, particularly many older decisions. Also see Hein's U.S. Attorney General Opinion Library.
Also see Administrative Law Research Guide.
Ohio
Ohio Administrative Code (LAWriter from Ohio State Govt. site) - regulations of Ohio agencies
Register of Ohio - for proposed and new Ohio regulations
JCARR - Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review
Ohio Agency Decisions:
- Ohio Agency Contact Information
- Ohio Legal Research Guide - Administrative/Executive: See list of agency decisions on the web, and a chart showing how to find agency decisions.
- Zimmerman's Legal Research Guides: Ohio Executive Branch
You may also want to try the following custom search engines: Ohio Primary Materials; Everything Ohio Law
All States
- Findlaw - Cases and Codes
- Public Library of Law (links to Admin Code for some states)
- American Law Sources Online
- Washlaw.web
- USA.gov: State Agencies by Topic
- Nat'l. Assoc. of Secretaries of State (Click on Contact Roster)
- Secretaries of State - by Coordinated Legal Technologies
links checked 8/7/2009 aeb