Index:
C. Maryland State Resources
D. Federal Resources
E. International Resources
F. Bar Associations
G. Non-profit Organizations
C. Maryland State Resources [Return
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Generally, first go to the Maryland Sailor site for a listing of each
government branch and related links, searchable databases, web sites,
and state documents.
http://www.sailor.lib.md.us/
Also see Maryland Manual On-Line: A Guide to Maryland Government:
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/html/mmtoc.html
1. Executive
Maryland's Electronic Capital lists all of the state and independent
agencies and provides links to agency websites.
http://www.mec.state.md.us/
Attorney General Opinions online
http://www.mec.state.md.us/
2. Judicial
Maryland Judiciary Home Page with links to Court of Appeals, Court of
Special Appeals, Circuit Courts and District Courts
http://www.courts.state.md.us/
3. Legislative
Maryland Code
http://www.michie.com/resources1.html
Bills, Indexes, Schedules
http://mgasearch.state.md.us/verity.asp
4. Other Maryland Sites
Maryland Insurance Administration
http://www.mdinsurance.state.md.us/
COMAR
http://www.sos.state.md.us
https://constmail.gov.state.md.us/comar/dsd_web/default.htm
SDAT
http://www.dat.state.md.us/
D. Federal Resources [Top]
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General Resources and Indexes Library of Congress,
http://www.loc.gov/
Fedworld home page.
http://www.fedworld.gov/
In 1992, FedWorld was established by The National Technical Information
Service( NTIS), an agency of the U.S Department of Commerce, to serve
as the online locator service for a comprehensive inventory of information
disseminated by the Federal Government. This assists agencies and the
public in electronically locating Federal Government information, both
information housed within the NTIS repository and information made accessible
through an electronic gateway.
1. Executive
Welcome to the White House (includes searchable executive orders, press
briefings)
http://www.whitehouse.gov
Federal Register (search engine)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html
Code of Federal Regulations (search engine)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/index.html
U.S. Government Agency Web Sites Searchable databases are available
at the Fedworld Site. For a listing of many U.S. Executive and Independent
Agencies, with links to the web sites, see:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/fedgov.html
http://www.uncle-sam.com/executivedepts.html
http://www.uncle-sam.com/independent.html
2. Judicial
Federal Judiciary Home page:
http://www.uscourts.gov/
U.S. Bankruptcy Court
http://www.mdb.uscourts.gov/
Federal Judicial Center Site, including links, Federal Rules of Evidence,
and publications is located at:
http://www.fjc.gov/
Some of the University and private sites offer more thorough coverage
of older opinions.
For Supreme Court cases dating back to 1893, see
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html
Search all Circuit Courts of Appeal (only recent cases)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/federal/opinions.html
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 1995 to 1999 cases at
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/courts/4th.html
1995 to 1999 cases at
http://www.law.emory.edu/4circuit/index.html
United States District Court links
http://www.findlaw.com/10fedgov/judicial/district_courts.html
United States District Court for the District of Maryland
http://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/
2005–2006 U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland opinions
at
http://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/opinions152/selectOpsMenu.asp
3. Legislative
Library of Congress' "Thomas" page with search engines to
locate full text and summary federal bills, bill summaries, current
and archived congressional records, committee reports, hearing schedules.
There are also helpful links to other federal executive, judicial and
legislative sources.
http://thomas.loc.gov/
The 'Lectric Law Library, a successor site, is located at:
http://www.lectlaw.com/inll/1.htm
4. Other Federal Sites
PACER System for U.S. Courts
http://pacer.mdd.uscourts.gov/
E. International [Top] [Return
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1. U.S. Treaties
*(Current Session Information) (Senate Web)
Documents identifying treaties received from the President, treaties
on the Executive Calendar, treaties approved by the Senate, and listings
of other recent treaty status actions, including treaties that were
rejected by the Senate or withdrawn by the President, during the current
Congress. This page includes links to the resources on treaties received
from the President during the current congress, treaties on the executive
calendar, and treaties approved, including the status of ratification.
* Web Resources for Foreign and International Legal Research (U. Colo.)
http://spot.colorado.edu/~thompsje/intlaw.htm#treaty
sources
This is a great place to start any search into international materials
and treaties. It contains links to many "how-to" research
resources, and explains how to find full text international materials
on the web.
* Tufts University Multilaterals Project
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/
Sponsored by the Tufts University (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
Tufts University), this web page attempts to make available the texts
of international multilateral conventions and other instruments. It
contains full texts of some international materials by subject matter,
predominantly including environmental materials, human rights issues
and some commercial and international copyright materials are included.
*United Nations Treaty Collection (U.N.)
http://untreaty.un.org
Text of treaties deposited with the U.N., and current status of multilateral
treaties deposited with the U.N. Requires site registration and a fee,
although sample documents are freely viewable.
F. Bar Associations [Top] [Return
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Defense Research Institute (DRI)
http://www.dri.org
Maryland State Bar Association
http://www.msba.org/
Local and Specialty Bar Associations (links)
http://www.msba.org/links/index.htm
G. Non-profit Organizations [Top]
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Kid's Chance
http://www.kidschance-md.org
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