Court+Cases

Court Cases

**Print Resources ** ~ Physical and digital books prepared by subject-area experts presenting primary and secondary source information as well as statistics, images, facts, and/or narrative.
 * Most print resources on specific **Biography** and **People** will be located in **920s (collected biographies) and 921s (individual people).** In 921, search by the first 3 letters of the __subject's__ last name.
 * Specific court cases may be found by searching the Online Catalog. We do have books on several cases.

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**Internet Resources **~

**Court Cases**
 * Famous Trials Page by Doug Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School. Includes links to many government documents and original sources.
 * JURIST is a Web-based legal news and real-time legal research service powered by a mostly-volunteer team of over 30 part-time law student reporters, editors, and Web developers led by law professoor Bernard Hibbits at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Use the search box to find material about many current and historical court cases.
 * Digital History is a site designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the Department of History and the [|College of Education] at the [|University of Houston]. This link goes straight to their section on famous court cases.
 * The Library of Congress has information about famous court cases. Also a great place to find photos.
 * Landmark Cases of the Supreme Court was created to provide teacher resources, but there is no reason that students can't access the same great information and links. Very helpful in pinpointing the main issue at stake in each case.


 * **Wikipedia** will give you an easy-to-read background information about your case, but Wikipedia is not often allowed to be used as a source in academic papers because it is written y the public and anyone can add to it. However, you can use the "notes" and "references" at the end of an entry to look up the information for yourself to verify it.
 * **Amazon.com** is an online bookstore that often provides readers with a "Look Inside the Book" feature. It is often surprising how much of the content is available for reading! Use amazon's "book details" (scroll down below the price info) to write your citation information.