Federal Courts

Federal Courts Home Page - Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Federal Court Locator (from Villanova University School of Law) - links to federal court home pages and related sites
Federal Judicial Center makes many of its publications on court administration and governance, and educational materials for court personnel, available to the public through their web site.
History of The Federal Judiciary from the Federal Judicial Center
Your Nation's Courts Online - Want's Federal and State Court Directory, with listings and contact information for every federa court and state supreme court, and news about appointments of federal judges from Want's Federal Court Appointments Report ( restricted to University of Chicago)
American Judicature Society - nonpartisan organisation of judges and lawyers

The U.S. Federal Courts Finder (from the Emory School of Law) - has slip opinions from every circuit.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit official home page, with slip opinions, docket sheet, local rules, and proposed rule changes
Project Posner - a web site devoted to the opinions of Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Senior Lecturer at the Law School

Split Circuits - Professor A. Benjamin Spencer's blog dedicated to tracking developments concerning splits among the federal circuit courts
The Seton Hall Circuit Review is a law review dedicated to decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeal, with regular articles about splits between the circuits.
United States Law Week frequently publishes artricles about splits between circuits. Search for "splits" in the search box.

See the Supreme Court page for information aboutU.S. Supreme Court briefs and oral arguments
Mark Whiteman & Peter Scott Campbell, A Union List of Appellate Court Records and Briefs (1999) is the authoritative guide to appellate court briefs and records. Call number: XXKF105.9.W49 1998, D'Angelo Law Reference
Legal Briefs on Westlaw. When briefs are available, hyperlinks appear in the case and in KeyCite.
Dept. of Justice Appellate Briefs, Memoranda, and Advisory Opinions from the Antitrust Division, Civil Rights Division, and Office of Legal Counsel
FTC Litigation Status Report - includes briefs
EEOC Appellate and Amicus Briefs
SEC Legal Briefs and Litigation Releases
ACLU Amicus Briefs
Lambda Legal Defense Fund - amicus briefs in gay/lesbian rights cases
Human Rights Cases from Project Diana include briefs and amicus briefs.
EPIC's archives include amicus briefs in cyberlaw cases.
EFF Archives on cyberlaw cases

Judicial Business of the United States Courts. The official annual report of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Previously published in: United States Courts. Selected Reports, the Reports of the Proceedings of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and the Annual Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
Print: XXKF8700.A844 D'Angelo Law Reserve Collection
Statistics on Federal civil litigation. Professor Theodore Eisenberg at Cornell Law School has created a user-friendly interface for working with federal court caseload statistics. The data was compiled by the Institutional Consortium for Political and Social Science Research from data gathered by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
TracFed has statistics about federal civil and criminal prosecutions and prosecutors. TracFed is available only to law students, and only from wired from (Ethernet) connections in the D'Angelo Law Library.