JUDICIAL BRANCH OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Supreme Court of the United States

Full-text of Opinions, 1991-present. 

Also, found here is a link to a transcription of the Constitution of the United States in its original form and a link to America's Historical Documents.

Findlaw - Supreme Court Opinions, 1893-present.

Full-text database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1893 to the present.32

Searchable by keyword, party name, or U.S. Reports citation.

History of the Federal Judiciary - Judiciary Act of 1789 - while the framers of the U.S. Constitution agreed upon the division of the federal government into three branches, the delegates disagreed over whether the Constitution should create inferior federal courts. In the end, the Constitution left the issue open, and the construction of Article III, establishing the national courts, was left to Congress. At the initial session of the First Congress in 1789, the initial Judiciary Act was passed; it would serve as the model for all subsequent judicial legislation - - - - -

Federal Judicial Center - The education and research agency for the federal court system.  Information and history of Federal courts, Supreme Court, courts of appeals, district courts, circuit courts, and historical trials such as -- the Sedition Act trials, the Aaron Burr treason trial, Amistad, Chinese exclusion. . . . and more.  (Federal Judicial Center)

LLRX (Law Library Resources Exchange) - Court Rules, Forms, and Dockets:  the unique, free searchable database, maintained and continually updated
by Margaret Berkland.

Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. - released a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive is public domain and usable by anyone for any purpose.

The case law is available via http://www.altlaw.org/ and http:// www.law.cornell.edu/

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