Federal Legal
Resources
Federal Courts
United States
Supreme Court
- United
States Supreme Court
- Provides access to the Court's slip opinions,
orders, argument calendar, schedules, Rules,
bar admission forms and instructions, visitors'
guides, case-handling guides, special notices,
press releases, and general information.
- Decisions of the United States Supreme Court:
- via the
LII/Legal Information Institute, Cornell University
Law School
- via FindLaw.
Includes cases back to 1893.
- Findlaw:
United States Supreme Court Center
- An educational resource site dedicated to the
United States Supreme Court.
- Fedworld.gov/FLITE
Database - US Supreme Court Decisions, 1937-1975 (US
Department of Commerce)
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United States Court
of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United
State Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decisions of the United States Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit:
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- via Findlaw -
also provides access back to 1996, with more
searching options.
- United States District Court, District
of New Jersey
United
States District Court, District of New Jersey
- Decisions
of the United States District Court, District
of New Jersey via Rutgers School of Law
- Camden
- Coverage starts with October 1998 opinions.
- United States Bankruptcy Court, District
of New Jersey
- United
States Bankruptcy Court, District of New
Jersey
- Useful information on this site include local
bankruptcy rules, bankruptcy statistics, a
guide to personal bankruptcy, filing fees and
telephone listings.
- United States Attorney, District of
New Jersey
- United
States Attorney, District of New Jersey
- Includes archived
press releases.
Legislation
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- United States Code
via LII/Legal
Institute, Cornell University Law School
via United
States House of Representatives
- THOMAS
-- United States Congress on the Internet.
Legislative Information from the Library
of Congress.
- Provides roll call votes and bill status tracking.
Includes the Congressional Record from the 101st
Congress-110th Congress.
- Historic
Statutes of the United States
- Includes
Volumes 1-18 of the Statutes at Large, 1789-1875.
Regulations
- Code
of Federal Regulations via the Government
Printing Office, 1996-2008.
- Federal
Register via Government Printing Office,
1994-2008.
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Web Pages
- Official
United States Executive Branch Web Sites via
Library of Congress.
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New Jersey Legal
Resources
State Constitution
- New
Jersey State Constitution
- Searchable by keyword or table of articles.
The New
Jersey Constitutional Convention Proceedings
1947 is also available.
- New
Jersey Constitutional Documents Online via
Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
New
Jersey Charters via the Avalon Project,
Yale University.
- New Jersey Charters
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Court Opinions
- Court
Opinions: Supreme Court, Appellate Division,
Tax Court
- Maintained by Rutgers Law School - Camden.
Complete text. Coverage since March 1994 for
Supreme Court, since September 1995 for Appellate
Division. Searchable by keyword.
- Supreme
Court of New Jersey Oral Arguments Archive via
the New Jersey Digital Legal Library.
- An archive of the oral arguments of the Supreme
Court of New Jersey.
- Recent
Supreme and Appellate Court Opinions via
New Jersey Judiciary.
- Full text of opinions issued by the New Jersey
Supreme Court and Appellate Division for the
current week.
- Unpublished
Appellate Opinions via New Jersey Judiciary.
- Recent
Trial Court Decisions via New Jersey Judiciary.
- Some trial court decisions issued by the New
Jersey Superior Court. Decisions are made available
for six weeks.
Laws
- New
Jersey Statutes via New Jersey State
Legislature's web site.
- Includes the complete text of the statutes.
Searchable by keyword, by citation or by table
of contents.
- New
Jersey Chapter Laws via New Jersey State
Legislature's web site.
- Includes Chapter Laws from 1996-2008
- Library
Laws of New Jersey
- A compilation of New Jersey statutes and regulations
relating to libraries, compiled by the State
Library's Library Development Bureau.
Historic Laws
Guide to Researching
Older New Jersey Laws
- New
Jersey Session Laws Online via Rutgers
University School of Law - Camden.
- Includes New Jersey Provincial Statutes (1703-1776)
and New Jersey Session Laws (1776-1999).
- Revisions
of the Statutes of New Jersey 1877 via
New Jersey Digital Legal Library.
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- General
Statutes of New Jersey 1895 via New Jersey
Digital Legal Library.
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Legislative Branch
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- New
Jersey Legislature Homepage
- Information on legislators, bills from the
1996-2007 Legislature, New Jersey Statutes and
Constitution, Legislative Calendar and Legislative
Digest.
- Last
Date of Action
- Issued the day after a legislative session,
lists each bill that received some action in
that session with its legislative action history
to date.
- New
Jersey Legislative Histories on the Web
- Documents of the Legislature, plus some secondary
sources, showing Legislative intent for enacted
laws.
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Executive Branch
- Executive
Orders
- Access
to full text of executive orders issued from
Governors Hughes to Corzine.
- Executive
Orders 1941-1990 via New Jersey Digital
Legal Library.
- Searchable
collection of executive orders from Governor
Edison to Governor Kean.
- Office of
the Attorney General of the State of New Jersey
- New
Jersey Attorney General Opinions, 1949-1998
- Includes
the Formal Opinions from 1949 through 1984 (and
Memorandum Opinions from 1954 through 1966) that
were published in volumes by the office of the
Attorney General, as well as the Formal Opinions
that were issued from 1985 through 1998.
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Judiciary Branch
- New
Jersey Judiciary Homepage
- Includes an overview of the New Jersey court
system, recent court opinions and notices to
the bar. A useful section of this web site
is the Legal
Resource Room, which provides a wealth
of resources, including:
Court Rules
- New
Jersey Court Rules available from the
State Judiciary web site.
New Jersey Court
Rules available from Gann Law Books.
Administrative
Law
- New
Jersey Administrative Code
- Michie's New Jersey Administrative Code database.
- New
Jersey Register via LexisNexis.
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- Administrative
Law Decisions dating from October 1997.
- Full
text opinions issued by the Office of Administrative
Law.
- New
Jersey Administrative Reports (First Series),
1979-1991
- Includes
a selection of cases from 1979-1991.
- New
Jersey Worker's Compensation Forms and Publications
Administrative Agency Decisions:
- Board of Medical Examiners:
- Public
Disciplinary Notices (2007)
- Public
Disciplinary Notices (2002-2006)
- Commissioner of Education: School
Law Decisions
- Commissioner of Education: Commissioner
Decisions
- Counsel on Local Mandates: Written
Decisions
Department of Banking & Insurance: Acquisition
Orders
Department of Banking & Insurance: Insurance
Enforcement Activity of the (2004-2008)
Department of Community Affairs, Division of
Codes and Standard: Formal
Technical Opinions
Department of Personnel, Merit System Board:
Latest
Notable Decisions of the Merit System Board
and the Commissioner of Personnel
Notable
Decisions (chronological order, 2004-2007)
Digests
of Notable Decisions (digests of notable
decisions with links to full Merit System
Board decisions)
Merit
System Reporter (a digest of notable
Merit System decisions)
Election Law Enforcement Commission: Advisory
Opinions (1998-2008)
Government Records Council: Advisory
Opinions
Government Records Council: Decisions
New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission:
PERC
Decisions (1979-2008)
Synopses
of Recent Decisions (1997-2008)
Appeals
Board (ABD) Decisions (1984-2007)
Director
Decisions (1981-2008)
Executive
Director (ED) decisions (1970-1976)
Hearing
Examiner (HE)/Hearing Officer(HO) (1976-2008)
Interim
Relief (IR) decisions (1981-2008)
Litigation
Alternative Program (LD) decisions (1985-2006)
Payroll
Deduction Determinations (PDD) (2003-2008)
Office of the Attorney General, Division of
Civil Rights: Director's
Orders (2002-2007)
Workers Compensation: Decisions
Local Ordinances
Many New Jersey Municipal
Codes can be found on the E-codes and Coded
Systems Corporation web sites.
Forms
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- Appellate
Forms provided by the New Jersey State
Judiciary.
Forms
and Kits for Self Represented Litigants (Pro
Se) Includes materials on civil and family
practice, small claims, probate, landlord-tenant,
name change and expungement and the Appellate
and Supreme Court
New
Jersey Tax Forms provided by the New Jersey
Division of Taxation.
- Findlaw/Forms
- Legal forms for many state and Federal jurisdictions
are available.
- Public Legal:
A Product of the Internet Legal Resource Guide
- A comprehensive source of legal information.
Links are arranged by state and country.
It is a very good source for legal
forms.
- LexisOne
- Provides free case, free forms, and a legal
internet guide. Registration required.
- All
State Legal provides New Jersey and nationwide
legal forms, and other legal products and services.
Products are available to both attorneys and
the general public
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Web Pages
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- Legal Services
of New Jersey
- LSNJ is an independent, non-profit organization,
which provides free legal assistance to low-income
people in civil matters
- New
Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics Disciplinary
Histories
- Contains disciplinary histories of New Jersey
attorneys, beginning in 1990.
- New
Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education
- This Institute sponsors seminars and skills
and methods courses for New Jersey lawyers
and judges. The web site provides online application
for courses and seminars, and online ordering
of publications.
- New Jersey Law
Network
- Links to various web sites on New Jersey law
and government. Includes a topical listing of
web sites and link to a New Jersey attorney's
discussion list.
- New
Jersey Law Revision Commission
- The Commission has the responsibility to review
the New Jersey statutes and to recommend changes
to improve and modernize the statutory law. This
site includes Commission reports on current and
completed projects, and bills and laws based
on Commission reports.
- Rutgers-Newark
Law Library - Internet Law Guide
- Includes federal law, New Jersey law, foreign
and international law and law of other states.
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New Jersey Legal
Blogs
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Employer's
Law Blog (Day Pitney LLP)
GLBT
Couples Law (Stephen J. Hyland, Esq.)
- Hoboken
Law Blog (Frank Marciano, Attorney at Law)
New
Jersey Attorney Law Review Blog (LoFaro & Reiser)
New
Jersey Criminal Defense and DWI Blog (The
Law Offices of John F. Marshall)
New
Jersey Criminal Defense Blog (Lependorf & Silverstein)
- New
Jersey Divorce & Family Law (Medina,
Martinez & Castroll, LLC)
New
Jersey Eminent Domain Law Blog (William J.
Ward, Esq.)
New
Jersey Employment Law Blog (Steinberg Law
Offices)
New
Jersey Family Law (Charles C. Abut, Esq.)
New
Jersey Family Law Blog (The Rotolo Law Firm)
New Jersey
Law Blog (Stark & Stark)
The
Property Tax Blog (Jonathan M. Bernstein,
Esq.)
Sanns
Mediation World of ADR (Mediation, Arbitration
and Family/Divorce Law in N.J.)
Third
Circuit Blog
Third Circuit
Immigration Blog
Traumatic
Brain Injury Law Blog (Bruce H. Stern, Stark & Stark)
You
and Yours Blawg (Deirdre R. Wheatley-Liss,
Esq.)
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Legal Finding
Tools
General Purpose
Directories and Subject Indexes
- American
Association of Law Libraries
- Includes links to specialized web sites that
are useful to law librarians and legal researchers.
- American
Bar Association's Lawlink: The Legal Research
Jumpstation
- Good starting point for legal research, with
federal sites, legal associations, law schools
and other internet research points.
- CataLaw:
Metaindex of Law and Government
- A metaindex of indexes of law on the internet.
CataLaw arranges the contents of these indexes
by Topic,
by Region,
and by "Extras" of
law-related resources such as continuing legal
education, lawyer lists, law school lists and
legal periodicals.
- Villanova
University's Federal Court Locator
- Includes links to Supreme Court and Circuit
Court of Appeals decisions, and District Court
web sites
- Tax
Master
- Includes links to tax web sites.
- Find Law:
Internet Legal Resources
- This is a comprehensive web site, which includes
a Legal
Subject Index of 44 broad practice areas,
and the LawCrawler legal
search engine with Boolean searching. Also includes
guides to:
- Guide
to Law Online (Library of Congress)
- This is a highly selective index of web sites,
which attempts to direct users to the most useful
and reliable law sites online. Each link is briefly
annotated, enabling the user to compare web sites
on a given topic without having to browse the
sites themselves.
- Public Legal:
A Product of the Internet Legal Resource Guide
- A comprehensive source of legal information.
Links are arranged by state and country.
It is a very good source for legal
forms.
- LexisOne
- Provides free case, free forms, and a legal
internet guide. Registration required.
Specialized and
Jurisdictional Directories
- American
Law Sources On-line
- A well-designed catalog of legal sources arranged
by jurisdiction (Federal, all fifty states, Canada
and Mexico), and then by type of document (court
decisions, codes, commentary, practice aids).
The user can choose to browse a document, or
use keyword searching.
- Court
Web Sites (National Center for State Courts)
- Many web sites linked, from municipal to federal
and international. Includes some sites with court
opinions.
- Internet
Sites of the State Legislatures (National
Conference of State Legislatures)
- "Searchable Database provides links to
Web sites of State Legislatures, Legislators
and other select content areas including Bills,
Constitution, Issue Reports, Kids Pages, Program
Evaluations and Statutes."
- State
Law (Washburn University School of Law)
- A good state-by-state guide to official government
information, with links to the main home page
of each state, state legislative web sites, statutes,
court web sites, and the home pages of elected
officials.
- Uniform and Model Acts
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Search Engines
- Legal
Research Engine
- Cornell University.
- FindLaw's
Lawcrawler
- Searches law sites worldwide, within specific
countries, or within specific sites of the United
States.
- Virtual
Legal Search Engines
- A list of legal search engines.
- AltLaw
- "The free legal search engine - over 700,000
documents."
- preCYdent
- "Open law source."
- Public
Library of Law
- "Tthe Web's largest free law library."
- Justia
- Legal search engine. Includes practice areas,
blogs and podcasts.
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Legal Reference
- Martindale-Hubbell
Lawyer Locator
- Online access to the Martindale-Hubbell
Law Directory
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- Nolo's
Legal Encyclopedia
- An online legal encyclopedia for laymen. Includes
information on small business, employment matters,
wills and estates, consumer rights. Also includes
a legal dictionary, which gives plain-English
definitions of legal terms.
- FindLaw
- Contains some good general explanations of
various areas of law and a directory of lawyers
and law firms.
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Links to Legal
Periodicals
New Jersey Legal
Periodicals:
- New Jersey
Lawyer
- Includes, from the current issue, top news
stories, court opinions, legislative and bar
association news, and other information normally
found in this weekly legal newspaper.
- New
Jersey Law Journal
- Current issue coverage as with New Jersey Lawyer.
Includes a daily decision service and archival
searching of the journal. Also includes, through
the nationwide law.com,
links to similar sites of other states.
- Rutgers
Computer & Technology Law Journal
- Rutgers
Law Journal
- Rutgers
Law Record
- Seton
Hall Law Review
- Mercer-Beasley
Law Review (1932-1935)
- University
of Newark Law Review (1936-1942)
Links to Other
Legal Periodicals:
- American
Law Sources Online
- A comprehensive list of university law reviews
and subject-specific law journals. The site also
includes bar association journals and a few commercial
law journals.
- WashLaw
Legal Research on the Web-- Law Journals
- A good source for little known journals. Has
the added feature of a full text, keyword index
for listed journals.
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Attorney Search
- Martindale-Hubbell
Lawyer Locator
- Online access to the Martindale-Hubbell
Law Directory
- FindLaw's
Lawyer Directory
- Contains some good general explanations of
various areas of law and a directory of lawyers
and law firms.
- New
Jersey State Bar Association Lawyer Referral
Services
- Includes a list "of county bar associations
that offer lawyer referral services."
- New Jersey
Law Network Lawyers Directory
- Provides a listing of local law firms. Searchable
by practice and county.
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Legal Materials
in Spanish
- Legal
Services of New Jersey's Publications in
Spanish
- Power
of Attorney Form in Spanish
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