TOURO LAW (PATCH) Community service site provided by Touro College Law School. Has text and summaries of about 50 key Supreme Court cases, and offers other info as well
OYEZ Maintained by Northwestern University, this site offers access to cases since 1953-54 term. Hs abstracts of cases, information about justices (including previous and subsequent positions), enables you tot race holders of a particular seat, lists of cases by subject matter. Best feature: RealAudio of oral arguments of more recent Supreme Courts (you can get a list of all cases that have RealAudio).
These are the two sites I used for my own 9th grade students. While the other sites below all have their uses, I find that most of what 9th grade students of government need to know can be obtained from just these two sites. [link repaired on 01/23/04]
Summaries of some major cases - this is from a website prepared by a teacher in New York for his own students. It has brief summaries of a number of important cases, including some precedents of cases I assigned my students.(added December 16, 2000)
Exploring Constitutional Conflict- a very interesting and useful site from University of Missouri Kansas City Law School
Portal to Major Cases - another site that has a portal to information about major cases, among other things (added February 10, 2000)
The Avalon Project at Yale - this portal, maintained by Yale Law School, provides access to all kinds of interesting documents in law, history and diplomacy, organized within century. Find the original texts of Colonial charters, international agreements, collections of presidential papers, etc. While there is little directly on Supreme court, it makes for fascinating browsing (added February 10, 2000).
Rominger A commercial site that has a lot of good links, including to Supreme Court Historical Society
Law Info Access to opinion since 1937, searchable by title, subject, etc. Also gives ability to find subsequent references to Supreme Court decisions.
Findlaw Gives ability to go through Constitution and Amendments to find annotations of relevant Supreme Court Decisions
Law Guru Has a great variety of links to other legal sites of interest, including a law library
Emory Law This wonderful site gives on-line text, scanned originals, and search capabilities to what they consider the Founding Federal Documents: included are the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers. Take a look at the proposed amendments to the Constitution passed by the Congress but never ratified by the states. You might be surprised.
Cornell Index This site from Cornell Law School is good, but very hard to get to, as so many other sites link to it.
A Century of Lawmaking Site from American Memory at Library of Congress that has material on the Congresses that met during 1774-1873.
Guide to Law Online maintained by the Library of Congress, as part of its Global Legal Information Network (GLIN). It is prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress for the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), is an annotated hypertext guide to sources of information worldwide on government and law available online without charge. It includes links only to the most useful and reliable sites for legal information available for each of the world's nations, although none of these sites have yet qualified for full GLIN recognition for the completeness, accuracy and officially certified authenticity of the legal texts they provide. As such sites come online, they will be linked directly to the GLIN database and will additionally receive special recognition in the Guide (this description is from the page to which you will go if you click on the hypertext link above).
last updated 2004-01-23