PATHFINDER FOR MRS. BRUNET’S CLASS.
AP GOVERNMENT
SEARCH FOR COURT CASES
It is a good idea to brainstorm or “explode” a list of keywords that are pertinent to your
search. For instance, some keywords for “court cases” would be:
Legal Decisions, Landmark, legal decisions, landmark decisions, court decisions,
Supreme Court decisions, court rulings, Supreme Court rulings, U.S. Constitution,
judicial branch of government, democracy, U.S. Supreme Court, school segregation,
school integration, school desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education, race relations,
racial prejudice.
Try your search terms in any search engine. It is recommended that you use several, since
no one SE will search the entire web, so you want to increase your hits. I think you will
find a http://vivisimo.com search both productive and helpful. Your results will be
clustered in a type of table of contents making your decision about appropriate “next
“choices easier.
It is also suggested that you look for the government reporter section of the SIRS
database accessible from the library home page. (Student Learning Aids)
These web sites seem worth taking a look at as you search for your desired information.
You should be able to link from this page.
American Bar Association, public education
http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/previewcaseglancehome.html
American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org/
U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs
http://curiae.law.yale.edu/
Brown v. Bd of Ed
http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/
Supreme Court: The judicial power of the U.S.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=614
U.S. Supreme Court center
http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/
Speech: internet and first amendment
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/Speech/internet/Index.aspx
Historic court decisions
http://www.lectlaw.com/tcas.htm
Landmark Supreme Court cases
http://www.landmarkcases.org/
Supreme Court Multimedia
http://www.oyez.org/
United States Supreme Court Online
Full-text of leading cases (1793-1892), all cases (1892-1997), searchable by citation, case name, full-text,
subject, or docket number. Synopsis is free, full-text is fee. Also a browsable subject index. Over 6,700
opinions. There is also a non-searchable section (alphabetical or reverse chronological order) of the full-text
(free) of all the decisions from the current term.
http://www.usscplus.com/