The Supreme Court Unplugged
by Wendy Bay Lewis
Duke Law - Supreme Court Online - "serving the general public and facilitating the classroom use of recent decisions...summaries of pending cases specifically intended for use in the non-legal classroom" plus commentary on recent decisions of the Court.
On the Docket - up-to-the-minute coverage of cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia - Northwestern University - "The OYEZ Project provides access to more than 2000 hours of Supreme Court audio. All audio in the Court recorded since 1995 is included in the project. Before 1995, the audio collection is selective. It remains our aim to create a complete and authoritative archive of Supreme Court audio covering the entire span from October 1955 through the most recent release."
Famous Trials - Since 1996, Professor Douglas Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, has compiled voluminous materials about trials (and some Supreme Court cases) for teachers and students in high school, college and law school. Professor Linder states, "My vision was to create the Web’s largest collection of primary documents, images, essays, and other materials relating to famous trials from Salem to Simpson."
Find Law: Supreme Court Opinions
JURIST: Legal News and Research - an authoritative legal news website with emphasis on primary source materials (judicial decisions, legislation, testimony, reports and releases).
Landmark Supreme Court Cases - provides teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support teaching about landmark Supreme Court cases. Sponsored by Street Law and Supreme Court Historical Society.
Legal Information Institute (LII) Cornell University Law School, Supreme Court Collection - "The LII is known internationally as a leading “law-not-com” provider of public legal information. We offer all opinions of the United States Supreme Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance, over a decade of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the full United States Code."
Supreme Court of the United States - official site includes transcripts of oral arguments.
Supreme Court Historical Society - "a private non-profit organization dedicated to the collection and preservation of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States. Incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1974, it was founded by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, who served as its first honorary chairman."
Supreme Court Preview, Institute of Bill of Rights Law - Leading scholars and Supreme Court journalists analyze the Court's upcoming term every September at the William and Mary School of Law, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Supreme Court Monitor, American Lawyer Media's Law.com - Tony Mauro, a legal affairs correspondent, has been covering the Supreme Court for 25 years.
Your Constitutional Rights - A project of ACLU of Montana and public radio provides summaries of 50 pivotal Supreme Court cases. Download from web site or order CD.
