10.28.2008

Looking for Circuit Splits?

Found an excellent blog that has answered a few of my "Where is there a circuit split?" questions. Circuit splits are often utilized for law review articles, moot court competitions, and legal writing courses.

Split Circuits is a blog run by Prof. A. Benjamin Spencer at Washington & Lee University School of Law, Virginia, and includes citations and some analysis.

10.07.2008

Federal Materials

Active Legislation
http://www.senate.gov/reference/active_bill_type/110.shtml
A simple page that lists currently active legislation for the 110th Congress. Access is by category, popular titles, and subjects. Simple and effective.

GovernmentDocs.org
http://governmentdocs.org/
This site gives the public an unprecedented level of access to government documents by allowing users to browse, search, and review hundreds of thousands of pages acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other public disclosure, or “sunshine,” laws. Of note recently, the Jack Abramoff emails.

Guided Tour of PACER
http://www.virtualchase.com/video/pacer/pacer.html
Genie Tyburski's online guided tour of the using the name/party index lookup on PACER.

Rutgers School of Law – Congressional Documents Online
http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/gdoc/search.shtml
This is a full text archive of selected documents of the United States Congress from the collection of the Rutgers-Camden School of Law. Hearings included in this online collection date from the 1970's to 1998. The project is ongoing and that there are currently 7064 documents available, totaling: 1732460 pages, as of Sept. 3, 2008.