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/