23 February 2005. Jupiter Publishing Company, LLP, offers this database of annotations to the Illinois Administrative Code. Covering 1984 to present, entries consist of "headnotes covering each provision of a section of the Illinois Administrative Code that is cited in a case." You may search by Code citation or keywords. There is a charge to access the database, but the vendor offers a free trial period. Follow this link to find the government's official site for federal regulations. Search the C.F.R. by keyword or by section.
SEE ALSO: List of CFR Sections Affected.
Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII) provides an interface to the CFR offered by the Government Printing Office. Find relevant sections by citation, by searching individual titles, or by querying the index of subject headings created by LII.
Retrieve sections in HTML or PDF formats.
This is a user-friendly speedy interface to data available at GPO Access. 30 July 2002. The U.S. Customs Service provides this database of selected rulings that span the years 1989 to present. While not all rulings currently reside in the database, the Customs Service plans to include all rulings at some future date. The database supports Boolean, including the NEAR operator. Enter a tariff number or legal citation as a keyword or phrase. Enclose phrases in quotation marks. The database also provides tariff classifications (e.g., search wine to find rulings and the classification under each ruling). 4 April 2006. Find digitalized collections of historic regulatory documents pertaining to transportation. Collections include superseded copies of the Civil Aeronautics Manual, superseded civil air regulations, superseded advisory circulars, historic railroad investigation reports, historic aviation accident reports, historic FARs (federal aviation regulations) and more. 3 March 2004. Presently in beta, the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR) offers researchers a timely source for finding federal regulations currently in effect. The Office of the Federal Register and the Government Printing Office maintain the database, which integrates rule amendments and additions with the current CFR title. Note that this beta version is not an official legal edition of the CFR.
You can browse the site by CFR title and section, or search it. Search features include several proximity connectors. Searching is more precise when limited to a specific CFR title. Search results are displayed like a table of contents. Each page of text reflects the current database revision date as well as the source of the regulation.
4 April 2006. The Federal Aviation Administration offers an extensive collection of regulatory material about aircraft. Find information pertaining to registration and certification, guidance and policy as well as forms and technical documents. Tabs at the top of the page will take you to related collections, where you will find, for example, the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM), Advisory Circulars, Airworthiness Directives, recent rulemaking and more. Follow this link to find the government's official site for federal regulations. Coverage includes 1994 to present. 7 October 2002. The National Archives & Records Administration compiles resources pertaining to the Federal Register. Find easy access to the Public Inspection List (documents that will soon appear in the Federal Register), the current day's issue, indexes and daily tables of contents, including the List of Sections Affected, document drafting resources, and more. 23 February 2005. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts maintains this Web site on the federal rules of practice, procedure and evidence. It provides access to rules currently in effect in the federal courts, as well as background information on federal rules and the rulemaking process. Proposed amendments to the rules are available for review or comment. The site further maintains a list of proposed rules awaiting final action. 6 October 1999. Revised 27 February 2004. The Center for Information Law and Policy at the Chicago-Kent College of Law maintains this finding tool. Use it to find the Web sites of federal offices in all branches of government. In addition to legislative, judicial and executive Web sites, the index covers federal independent establishments and government corporations, federal government consortium and quasi-official agencies, federal boards, commissions and committees and non-government related sites. 6 September 2002. Revised 25 February 2005. Search the U.S. Constitution, United States Code (USC), Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) or the Federal Register. Also find databases containing opinions from the Circuit Courts of Appeals, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court (1893-present). While some features at FindLaw improve the use of these resources over their availability elsewhere on the Web, researchers should take care to verify and update information they find. Other more current sources for the U.S. Constitution, USC, and CFR exist. You can also use this site to find other sources of federal and state case law and statutes. This is the authoritative site for federal congressional and regulatory information. Search for pending legislation, recently enacted public laws, and more. Also find the Congressional Record, Federal Register, and United States Code. 6 March 2002. The Web site of the Government Printing Office (GPO) Board of Contract Appeals offers the Board's rules of practice and procedure, decisions, contract documents, and select court cases. The Board of Contract Appeals adjudicates claims arising under contracts awarded by the U.S. Government Printing Office. 6 March 2002. The Web site of the General Services Administration (GSA) Board of Contract Appeals offers its rules of procedure, decisions, and brief biographical information about its judges. 14 September 2001. Revised 9 August 2002. The Administrative Codes and Registers (ACR) Section of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) offers this handy chart of sources of state administrative rules. Find the primary source (often called register or bulletin) and secondary source (code) of state regulations. 18 September 2002. GPO Access provides online access to this reference publication. It also explains how to use the document to update information found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Visitors may search or browse the publication back to 1997. The National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register, posts this list of Federal Register documents daily, Monday through Friday. The list gives researchers advanced notice of rules and other documents that will appear in the Federal Register. To facilitate retrieval upon publication, researchers should note the document identification number. It appears in this format: 98-23563. Then, on the day of publication, connect directly to the document by entering its GPO Access URL in the following format:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?
dbname=1998_register&docid=98-23563
Replace 1998 in the URL with the year of publication and 98-23563 in the URL with the respective document identification number.
14 February 2008. Revised 18 March 2008. Owned and powered by Fastcase, The Public Library of Law (PLoL) makes available all cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appellate cases from 1950 forward, appellate cases from all 50 states back to 1997, the U.S. Code, select statutes or codes from all 50 states, as well as select state regulations, court rules and constitutions. While the case law appears to come directly from Fastcase, other legal documents originate from external sources, such as the House of Representatives (U.S. Code), state legislatures and other trustworthy legal sources. PLoL simply offers an alternate search interface.
Searching here is more advanced than what you would find at a public Web search engine. For instance, the database supports the within (W/n) proximity connector. It also supports Boolean, exact phrase searching and wildcard (*) searching (right-hand truncation only).
Technical notes: You must activate javascript to use this Web site. You must register to display the full text of case law. 30 January 2003. A government portal, Regulations.gov facilitates finding, and commenting on, federal regulations. You can search for regulations by keyword or opt to list the newer regulations of a particular agency. Regulations appear in both HTML and PDF formats. Search state government sites with FindLaw's LawCrawler interface to official state government Web pages. 6 October 1999. Formerly a joint Villanova/Chicago-Kent effort, this resource now resides at Chicago-Kent. Please note the new Web address.
Use the State Web Locator to find Web sites for state agencies. Many of these will link to official state legislative pages.
3 May 2001. Revised 5 August 2005. The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness provides Congress with analyses of agency regulations. Its Web site offers information and analyses on a variety of regulatory issues. Find sections devoted to data access (access to government information) and data quality (quality of information released by government). Also find commentary on issues regulated as a result of litigation, issues related to information privacy, and regulation via financial incentive. The site also maintains a "Watch List of regulations which have the potential to impose unwarranted regulatory burdens on consumers, small businesses, state and local governments, and corporations." It provides commentary on emerging regulatory issues, monitors and comments on litigation, and provides abstracts and reviews of new papers. Revised 25 February 2002. It appears that the site has not been updated recently. Commentary, therefore, may be dated. Find links to primary law documents, as well as commentary, concerning regulatory law issues. Louisiana State University Libraries offers this directory of federal government agency Web sites. Its excellent arrangement helps researchers determine the organization of federal agencies. One of the best Internet sources for government information, the University of Michigan Documents Center offers numerous research guides pertaining to federal, state, and local government information. 10 September 2002. This commercial site offers databases of state and federal case law.
An alternative to traditional online legal research systems, VersusLaw provides access to federal and state case law, as well as, federal statutes and regulations, legal news, and forms. Online documentation indicates tribal and foreign court availability, but does not specify which courts.
LLRX features three articles by reviewer T.R. Halvorson, which cover this service. See Survey of Online Legal Information Alternatives for Small Law Firms and Public Law Libraries, Preview of VersusLaw’s USConline, CFRonline, and CFRupdate!, and VersusLaw's V.: A View through the Southern California Online Users Group Rating Scale Lenses.
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