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Legal Resources
You can access this guide directly by going to http://bsu.libguides.com/legal
Use this guide to find legal resources; cases, codes, law journals, etc. Explore the tabs at the top of the page to locate more information and recommended resources.
If you have a citation, enter it the large search box, the one with the big letters in it. Or enter keywords into the box and use the facets in the left column of the results list to show cases.
Description: Nexis Uni provides access to newspaper articles, magazine articles, and transcripts. It is also a key database for business and legal research, containing company reports, law journals, and statutes and cases from all 50 states. Also contains legal resources for Canada and the EU. Time Period: 18th century to present Sources: Searches more than 15,000 sources. Subject Headings: Business, General, Law, News, Social Sciences Scholarly or Popular: Semi-scholarly Primary Materials: Abstracts, Citations, Journal Articles, Legal Materials, Magazine Articles, News, Reference Resources, Report, Transcripts Information Included: Abstracts, Full Text, Citations MultiLink: No Print Equivalent: None Publisher: Lexis Nexis Updates: Daily Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Recent Supreme Court opinions. To see older cases, click on Opinions and select Bound Volumes. See the Oral Arguments tab for transcripts and audio of arguments.
The search box on this page searches codes and not cases, but scroll US Courts of Appeals - Opinions & Resources for links to which allow users to search case law from the circuit courts as well as the Supreme Court.
Find information on the US Federal Courts. Use the Federal Court Finder to locate federal court websites, some of which, publish their decisions online.
If you have a citation, enter it in the big search box. To do a keyword search for a case, click on Cases in the "Guided Search area below the big search box. Select State Cases then enter and select a state. Enter search terms in the search box and search.
Description: Nexis Uni provides access to newspaper articles, magazine articles, and transcripts. It is also a key database for business and legal research, containing company reports, law journals, and statutes and cases from all 50 states. Also contains legal resources for Canada and the EU. Time Period: 18th century to present Sources: Searches more than 15,000 sources. Subject Headings: Business, General, Law, News, Social Sciences Scholarly or Popular: Semi-scholarly Primary Materials: Abstracts, Citations, Journal Articles, Legal Materials, Magazine Articles, News, Reference Resources, Report, Transcripts Information Included: Abstracts, Full Text, Citations MultiLink: No Print Equivalent: None Publisher: Lexis Nexis Updates: Daily Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
The search box on this page searches codes and not cases, but scroll State Resources for links to which allows users to state legal resources including a database which searches appeals cases for a given state. Can search by party name or do keyword searching.