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POL 325 Civil Liberties & Civil Rights: Finding Cases

How to find resources for leading U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

LexisNexisAcademic

To search for caselaw in LexisNexisAcademic, start from either the "Search by Content Type" drop down box and select Federal and State cases or start from the "Look up a Legal Case" box.  

Federal Case Law Resources

WestlawNext

WestlawNext

Fulltext. Accessible only from a computer physically connected to the University's network (will not work with WiFi connection). Primary law with KeyCite and Key Number System indexing including NY State and Federal cases, statutes, and regulations. Secondary law titles include American Jurisprudence 2d, American Law Reports Federal 2d, Corpus Juris Secundum, Black’s Law Dictionary, Restatements & Principles of the Law.