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Landmark Supreme Court Cases  URL: http://www.landmarkcases.org/

This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case.

Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research  

 URL:http://www.llrx.com/features/supremectwebguide.htm

"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." By Gail Partin, Associate Law Librarian at Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law, for Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX).

Supreme Court Collection  URL: http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html

An archive of decision from 1990 to the present.  The current awareness section gives decisions, order and case updates for the current month.  The archive of decisions can be searched by topic, by author,and by party.  Also included is a glossary of legalese and rules of the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court of the United States  URL: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Their official web site.  A wealth of info about the U.S.Supreme Court including what’s on the docket, read case handling guides, access old opinions, and much more.

Touro Law Center Presents Project P.A.T.C.H  http://www.tourolaw.edu/PATCH/

A virtual law library relevant to high school law courses. Project P.A.T.C.H. made it easy for us to say "yes" when they requested that we place United States Supreme Court cases on the Touro Law Center Web Site. They arranged for a grant to pay Touro Law Center staff and they provided their guide book and a list of the cases that are included in the eleventh grade curriculum. In addition, Touro Law Center Web Site lists the full text of the United States Supreme Court cases that are included in their guide book.

U.S. Supreme Court   URL: http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/

Various court resources, law professors discussions on arguments and audio transcripts of some of the oral arguments before the Supreme Court. Resource s include biographies of Justices, court history.  The court docked includes questions presented, briefs, and lower court opinions.

Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database

 URL: http://www.oyez.org/  

The Oyez Project "provides access to more than 2000 hours of Supreme Court audio ... recorded since 1995 [through the present]." (The pre-1995 collection is selective.) Features pending court cases; "On This Day," a listing of all Supreme Court events by date; legal news; biographies of the Supreme Court Justices; subject directory of cases; a calendar of court events, including dates for cases scheduled to be argued and decided; and more. Searchable.