This guide is intended to help law students and practitioners find resources which will help them understand federal civil procedure and find applicable federal court rules. Developed by Joan Markey and updated by Loreen Peritz and Jean Davis.
Lexis Legal Research starting points: Explore: Content > Cases links to U.S. federal cases. One can search all available U.S. federal court cases, or can search by court, circuit, state or practice area. See also link: Cases: All Federal . Log in required.
Westlaw starting point: tab: Federal materials links to the page: Federal Cases . One can search all available U.S. federal court cases, or can search by court, state, circuit or territory. Log in required.
The Westlaw scope information states: "Cases from the U.S. district courts published in West's Federal Rules Decisions that interpret the federal rules. (These cases are not published in West's Federal Supplement.) Coverage begins with 1938."
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Bloomberg Law: Dockets Search (log in required)
In BLS Library's SARA catalog record above, click link: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION -- (MOML) -- REMOTE ACCESS RESTRICTED TO CURRENT BLS COMMUNITY -- SEE PROXY INSTRUCTIONS.
For brief analysis tools, access:
Bloomberg Law > Brief Analyzer
For sample documents (e.g., pleadings, motions) & clauses, see the Practice Pages box on the home page of this guide.
Publicly accessible sources:
Supreme Court of the United States > tab: Case Documents