Court Webpages, Dockets & Briefs
Table of Contents: Federal: Supreme Court, Circuit & District Courts Ohio: Supreme Court, Appellate, Common Pleas, Municipal, Mayor's Courts |
For COURT OPINIONS (CASES) see: Case Law (Legal Research on the Web)
Also see: Resources for Online Court Dockets Research Guide
For briefs, see Briefs, Motions & Pleadings Guide
Federal - Generally:
- Federal Courts Home Page- Links to the Courts, Info on New and Proposed Court Rules, more.
- Federal Judicial Center - research on federal court operations & procedures, court history ,more
- Federal Court Finder -Emory Law School. Find court web pages
- Federal Court Locator - Villanova University. Links to courts and related links.
US Supreme Court
- U.S. Supreme Court website
- Docket
- Oyez Oyez Oyez Collection of Audio Files of Selected Oral Arguments before the Court (requires the RealAudio Player)
- FindLaw's Supreme Court Center including Docket, case index, orders, briefs, guides, and court schedule.
- Supreme Court Justices' Pictures and Biographies via Cornell's Legal Information Institute
US Circuit Court & District Court
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 .
- US Courts - Links to Court Web Pages
- Federal Court Finder - via Emory Law School - to find court web sites.
Dockets
- Pacer- Search Pacer, Info on Pacer Accounts, etc. - Cost is 8 cents a page, need to set up an account.
- Free Dockets:
- Justia Federal District Court Dockets - Free, but limited information. Searchable by party name, lawsuit type and date filed. District Court cases only - PACER also includes appellate and bankruptcy cases.
- Courtport's FreeCourtDockets.com. - Docket is free, but you must go on PACER to get the documents filed in the case. Directly links to PACER to purchase filings. Searchable only by case number, but one can run a party name search on Justia Dockets. You must request an invitation code to access FreeCourtDockets
- Free Documents:
- Recap - A Firefox extension that will indicate which documents are in Recap's free archive, when you pull up the docket on Pacer, and allow you to access the free documents. When you pull a document off Pacer, it saves it to the Recap archive. Searchable archive may be coming in the future.
- PACER Recycling Center - Some free documents from Pacer, contributed by the public. Contained in large files. .
- Westlaw -DOCK-FED-ALL - Federal district and circuit court dockets combined. For particular court dockets, see Directory Location: All Databases>Litigation>Dockets. Some have full text images.
- Lexis -(NOT dockets, but basic case information) Public Records>Public Records>Find Filings> Civila & Criminal Court Filings & Regulatory Actions > U.S. District Court Civil & Criminal Case Filings
Ohio
Database of Ohio court rules - Appellate, county and municipal court rules are included. The database is made up of links to rules which are already on the web, plus rules in print that were scanned in by the Ohio Law Library Consortium, a cooperative of Ohio County Law Libraries.
Ohio Supreme Court
- Ohio Supreme Court web site
- Docket -Brief are available from about 2006 forward via the court docket.
- Free Case Activity Notification Service
- Pro Se Guide for Appeals to the Ohio Supreme Court
- Westlaw - DOCK-OH-SCT
Ohio Appellate Courts
Ohio Common Pleas Courts
- Butler County Clerk of Courts - links to all Ohio common pleas courts
- Cleveland Law Library - Court Web Pages
- Cleveland Law Library - Ohio County Courts & Local Rules, Muni Courts
- Ohio Judicial Conference - Ohio Courts
- Ohio Supreme Court - links to Related Web Sites - Trial Courts
- Directory of Traffic Courts in Ohio
- Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas - Civil Case Docket and Criminal Case Docket
- Cuyahoga County Probate Court - online access to its docket.
- Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
--Domestic Relations Division
--Probate Division
--Juvenile Division - Westlaw - DOCK-OH-STCTS - dockets for selected Ohio Counties. For individual county docket databases, see Directory Location: All Databases>U.S. State Materials>Ohio>Dockets>Dockets - Ohio State Courts
- Lexis -(NOT dockets, but basic case information) OH Civil Case Filings - Montgomery County ; OH Criminal Case Filings - Montgomery County
Ohio Municipal Courts
- Cleveland Law Library- Municipal and County Courts
- Cleveland Municipal Court
- Ohio Supreme Court - links to Related Web Sites - Trial Courts
- Directory of Traffic Courts in Ohio
Mayor's Courts
- Ohio Supreme Court - Mayor's Courts. For a list of Mayor's Courts, see Mayor's Court 2006 Summary.
Courts of All States (may include both federal & state courts)
- National Center for State Courts - State Court Web Sites
- LLRX- Court Rules, Forms and Dockets - links to federal & state courts
- American Law Sources Online - ALSO - links to federal & state courts
- Courtport.com - links to federal & state courts. Free subscription to any teacher or student with a .edu email address.
- Know-X Civil Lawsuit Finder - Searches multiple courts at once for a small fee
- Westlaw - DOCK-STATE-ALL - some with full text filings.
- Lexis - NOT dockets, but lists name of the case, subject matter and basic case information.
Combined State Civil & Criminal Filings. Civil filings from 20 states plus DC and criminal filings from 11 states.
For individual state databases, see Civil & Criminal Court Filings and Regulatory Actions Sublibrary, under Public Records>Public Records>Find Filings>Civil & Criminal Court Filings and Regulatory Actions
links checked 8/7/2009 aeb