UNITED STATES LEGAL RESEARCH AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

UNITED STATES LEGAL RESEARCH AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

USING E-MAIL AND THE INTERNET

Graduate Law Students 1997-1998

GENERAL STARTING POINTS

University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library Home Page

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/

FindLaw (web catalog of a variety of legal resources on the Net)

http://www.findlaw.com/

REPORTED COURT DECISIONS & OPINIONS (CASES)

United States Supreme Court

D'Angelo Law Library's Supreme Court Page

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/supreme.html

FindLaw's U.S. Supreme Court Opinions (full text from 1906 to date)

http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

Cornell's LIIBULLETIN (summaries of S. Ct. decisions via e-mail)

http://www.law.cornell.edu/focus/bulletins.html

LIIBULLETIN (electronic distribution list)

To subscribe, e-mail the following command to the LISTPROC software at listserv@listserv.law.cornell.edu:

subscribe liibulletin Your Name

Lower Federal Courts

Emory's U.S. Federal Courts Finder (all circuit courts of appeals)

http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/

D'Angelo Law Library's Federal Courts Page

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/courts.html

State Courts

D'Angelo Law Library State Law Page

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/state.html

DIGESTS - HOW TO FIND JUDICIAL DECISIONS (none on the Internet)

FindLaw (LawCrawler, Topical/Web pages on subject, Keyword Search)

http://www.findlaw.com/

General Search Engines (HotBot, Altavista, etc.)

http://home.netscape.com/escapes/search/ntsrchrnd-2.html

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Internet/

Listservs and Usenet Newsgroups (asking people on the Net for help):

NET-LAWYERS (electronic discussion group on Lawyers' Use of the Internet, including asking for help in finding legal documents on the Net)

http://eva.dc.lsoft.com/Archives/net-lawyers.html

To subscribe, send the following command to listserv@peach.ease.lsoft.com:

subscribe net-lawyers Your Name

misc.int-property (patents, trademarks, and copyright newsgroup)

news:misc.int-property

Lyo's Law Lists

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/lawlists/info.html

The University of Oklahoma Law Center

http://www.law.uoknor.edu/lists.html

The John Marshall Law School

http://www.jmls.edu/law/lists.html

Regent University

http://www.regent.edu/lawlib/lists/list-law.html

listTool - LawGuru.com's Legal Mailing List Manager

http://www.lawguru.com/subscribe/listtool.html

Liszt (general lists)

http://www.liszt.com/

Usenet newsgroups generally

http://www.dejanews.com

http://www.altavista.digital.com

http://www.reference.com/

CASE CITATORS

Shepard's

http://www.shepards.com/

WESTLAW's KeyCite Citation Research Service

http://www.westgroup.com/keycite/

LEXIS-NEXIS

http://www.lexis-nexis.com/

CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY RESEARCH

The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (also called the Annotated Constitution)

http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/constitution/

United States Code (U.S.C. via GPO Access)

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces002.html

THOMAS (for public laws, bills, and resolutions)

http://thomas.loc.gov/

CIS Congressional Compass (subscription database)

http://web.lexis-nexis.com/cis/

D'Angelo Law Library Federal Statutes and Legislative History Page

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/legis.html

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

Directories

United States Government Manual (Government Manual, 1997/98)

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces002.html

Villanova's Federal Web Locator

http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html

D'Angelo Law Library Federal Government Page

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/usgov.html

U.S. Federal Agency Regulations and Rules

Federal Register (FR, daily chronological publication)

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR, subject compilation)

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces002.html

U.S. Presidential Documents

White House Virtual Library (executive orders, speeches, press releases,

and including a publications electronic mailing list)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/html/library.html

Administrative Agency Rulings, Decisions, Orders, Reports

U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB, indexes of Decisions and Orders, and Weekly Summary of NLRB Cases)

http://www.nlrb.gov/

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/Orders/

International Trade Commission (ITC)

http://www.usitc.gov/

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

http://www.uspto.gov/

Looseleafs

Legal Looseleafs in Print (info forthcoming at:

http://www.infosources.com/)

Bureau of National Affairs

http://www.bna.com/

Commerce Clearing House

http://www.cch.com/

Prentice-Hall (now Aspen Law & Business)

http://www.aspenpub.com/

Research Institute of America

http://www.riatax.com/

SECONDARY SOURCES

U.S. Legal System and Legal Research

Guide to Resources for Legal Professionals (Genie Tyburski)

http://www.hslc.org/~tyburski/resources/other3.html

The Practicing Attorney's Home Page (Peter Krakaur)

http://www.legalethics.com/pa/

Internet Tools for Attorneys (Jerry Lawson)

http://www.netlawtools.com/resources.html

The Legal List (Diana Botluck, was Erik Heels)

http://www.lcp.com/The-Legal-List/TLL-home.html

LAWSRC-L (Internet Legal Resources List)

http://users.aol.com/abiaca/lawsrc.htm

http://mailmunch.law.cornell.edu/mhonarc/LAWSRC/

To subscribe, send the following message to listserv@listserv.law.cornell.edu:

subscribe lawsrc-l Your Name

Citation Form

D'Angelo Law Library Citation Guides Page

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/lawrev.html

Directories

D'Angelo Law Library Directories Page (how to find e-mail addresses, law schools, law firms, legal publishers, online services (including legal databases)

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/directory.html

Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (Lawyer Locator)

http://lawyers.martindale.com/marhub/

West's Legal Directory

http://www.wld.com/

American Bar Association

http://www.abanet.org/

Association of American Law Schools

http://www.aals.org/

Dictionaries, Books of Quotations and Thesauri

D'Angelo Law Library Dictionaries Page

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/dict.html

Encyclopedias (none on the Internet)

American Law Reports (none on the Internet)

Periodical Indexes & Journal Articles

D'Angelo Law Library Periodical Indexes Page

(includines links to Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP),

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP, includes U.S. journals

covering foreign and international law), ABI-INFORM (business periodicals index), ECONLIT (economic literature index)

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/indexes.html

UnCover (free table of contents service indexing about 20,000 journals on all types of topics, including law, with fee-based article delivery service)

http://uncweb.carl.org/

D'Angelo Law Library Law Reviews Page

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/lawrev.html

Law Journals

http://www.usc.edu/dept/law-lib/legal/journals.html

http://www.findlaw.com/03journals/index.html

http://lawlib.wuacc.edu/washlaw/lawjournal/lawjournal.html

http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/journals/juk/

http://www.hg.org/

http://www.law.indiana.edu/law/journals.html

http://www.law.cornell.edu/journals.html

Monographs, Treatises, Journals (Law Reviews, Serials Generally)

Library Catalogs (especially Horizon's WebPac interface and WorldCat)

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/catalogs.html

Hytelnet (links to online catalogs of libraries around the world)

http://library.usask.ca/hytelnet/

Harvard's Oline Catalog

telnet://hollis.harvard.edu/

Illinois Institute for Continuing Education (IICLE)

http://www.illinoiscle.com/

Practising Law Institute (PLI, Course Handbooks)

http://www.pli.edu/

West Group (for publication information about West hornbooks, nutshells, etc.)

http://www.westpub.com/

Directory of Law Reviews and Scholarly Legal Periodicals (Anderson)

http://www.andersonpublishing.com/lawschool/directory/directory.html

Restatements (none on the Internet)

American Law Institute (ALI)

http://www.ali.org/

Uniform Laws and Model Codes

Uniform Commercial Code (via Cornell)

http://www.law.cornell.edu:80/ucc/ucc.table.html

Other Uniform Laws

http://www.kentlaw.edu/ulc/

UCCLAW-L (Uniform Commercial Code e-discussion group)

http://lawlibdns.wuacc.edu/archive.html

To subscribe, send the following message to listserv@assocdir.wuacc.edu:

subscribe ucclaw-l Your Name

LNET-LLC (Limited Liability Companies and Partnerships e-conference)

http://www.stcl.edu/lnet-llc/lnet.llc.html

http://www.ljextra.com/forumpages/lnet-llc.html

To subscribe, send the following message to listserv@usa.net:

subscribe lnet-llc Your Name

NEWS, WEATHER, SPORTS, AND OTHER USEFUL STARTING POINTS

D'Angelo Law Library "News, Weather, and Sports" Page

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/News/

D'Angelo Law Library Other Starting Points Page

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/starting.html

Yahoo (catalog of web sites on the Internet)

http://www.yahoo.com/

ELECTRONIC MAIL, LISTSERVS, AND NEWSGROUPS

Pine (Sample Main Menu)

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? HELP - Get help using Pine

C COMPOSE MESSAGE - Compose and send a message

I FOLDER INDEX - View messages in current folder

L FOLDER LIST - Select a folder to view

A ADDRESS BOOK - Update address book

S SETUP - Configure or update Pine

Q QUIT - Exit the Pine program

? Help P PrevCmd R RelNotes

O OTHER CMDS ? [Help] N NextCmd K KBLock

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Note that you can send messages by entering C (or putting your cursor on Compose Message and hitting the ENTER key).

To test Pine, subscribe yourself to the LAWLLMS list. Send the following message to MAJORDOMO@LISTHOST.UCHICAGO.EDU:

subscribe lawllms

Here is a message I sent to myself with an attachment:

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PINE 3.95 COMPOSE MESSAGE Folder: (CLOSED) 0 Messages

To : Lyonette Louis-Jacques <llou@midway.uchicago.edu>

Cc :

Attchmnt: 1. /nfs/harper/h26/llou/yucky.doc (30 KB) ""

Subject : Testing "yucky" attachment

----- Message Text -----

Here is an attachment that I am sending to myself. Lyo.

Lyonette Louis-Jacques | llou@midway.uchicago.edu

Foreign and International Law | When the twelve notes have

Librarian and Lecturer in Law | all appeared, the piece

University of Chicago Law School | is over - Anton Webern

[File /nfs/harper/h26/llou/yucky.doc attached as type APPLICATION/octet-stream]

^G Get Help ^X Send ^R Rich Hdr ^Y PrvPg/Top ^K Cut Line ^O Postpone

^C Cancel ^D Del Char ^J Attach ^V NxtPg/End ^U UnDel Line

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Note that the ^ symbol stands for the Control (Ctrl) Key on your computer keyboard. When you see ^X, that means that you hold down the Ctrl key and hit x (not case-sensitive).

To attach a document to a message you are sending, you hit ^J or Ctrl j. Note that, to read an attachment that you receive via e-mail in Pine, you will Save the file, then need to FTP (file transfer protocol) the file from your harper.uchicago.edu to your Word/WordPerfect directory to read it.

To receive e-mail, check your INBOX folder (under L Folder List). To read a message, you can navigate by using the arrow keys or by using Spc (the Space Bar) or - (the hyphen or dash on your keyboard. Entering O several times rotates you through the lines of commands available with each Pine function.

You can create nickname files for people you will be e-mailing often by using the Address Book feature of Pine. Notice that you can even set up a distribution list:

lyo Lyo Louis-Jacques llou@midway.uchicago.edu

bill Schwesig, William was2@midway.uchicago.edu

refstaff Reference Staff DISTRIBUTION LIST:

cjt1@midway.uchicago.edu

jmwr@midway.uchicago.edu

mcf0@midway.uchicago.edu

was2@midway.uchicago.edu

To get out of the Pine e-mail program, enter Q (for Quit). You will then be back at the harper:~> Unix prompt. At this point, enter: logout

to quit the Telnet program.

To read and post to Usenet newsgroups, you can use the trn newsreader (you access it by entering at the harper:~> prompt, the following: trn) or Netscape or NewsWatcher (a Mac newsreader). You can also participate in Usenet newsgroups using the DejaNews service (and others) that publicly archive messages (called "articles") posted to newsgroups.

Some Rules of the Road (for Listservs, Usenet, and E-mail generally)

To subscribe to a list, always send the command to the address of the software that is running the list and not to the list itself (send to LISTSERV@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM and not to

NET-LAWYERS@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM; to send a message to the subscribers to a list, then you can send the mail to the address of the list itself, such as NET-LAWYERS@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM with a

descriptive subject header). To unsubscribe from a list, send the command: unsubscribe [listname]

e.g. unsubscribe net-lawyers

to the address of the software that runs the list and not the list itself -

e.g. send the command to LISTSERV@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM

Always sign your e-mail messages (some mail readers when you post to listservs do not include the address of the original poster) - so, include at least your name and e-mail address in the body of the message.

When you get "spam" (also called Unsolicited Bulk E-Mail (UBE) or Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (UCE)), it is probably best to ignore it

and just delete the message. Do not follow any "remove" commands as

that is likely to confirm your e-mail address and insure that you get even more spam. And some people think that you get more spam by participating in Usenet newsgroups. Do not mass-post ("spam"). If you find yourself wanting to post a message to more than 4-6 e-groups, stop.

When you get any message that asks you to forward it everywhere ("Good Luck" chain letter, sick child, charity, "Good Times" or other virus warning), do not forward it without first consulting with Computer or Reference staff. They are usually urban legends, Net myths, or hoaxes.

http://www.ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html

http://www.kunite.com/myths/