Includes superseded state statutes for all fifty states. Search the statutes by state, date, description and text. Coverage goes back to 1717. DOES NOT include current statutes. UNet Login and Passcode required.
Judicial branch links for each state, focusing on the administrative office of the courts, the court of last resort, any intermediate appellate courts, and each trial court level. From the National Center for State Courts.
Lists individual state databases on a variety of topics including information on businesses, licensed professionals, plots of land, even dates of fish stocking.
360 years of published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library.
PACER is the online database for US Courts documents. Users must sign up for an account to do searches, and it costs .15 a page view. Users start accuring charges once the page view total cost reaches $15.00. This resets quarterly. See alternatives below.
Provides access to electronic materials (forms, fee information, schedules, rules of procedure) from District Courts, Courts of Appeal, Bankruptcy Courts, and Courts of Special Jurisdiction.
Oyez (pronounced oh-yay), a free law project at Chicago-Kent, is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone
Official website for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Includes links to agencies, the legislature, bill tracking, A-Z list of subjects and links to policies and press releases.
Alphabetical listing by keyword of branches of government, Constitutional offices, and the departments under them, and provides links to those with websites.
The extensive collections at the Library of Congress contain historic artifacts and cultural materials from across the U.S. The list below is just a sample of the many Massachusetts resources available for free on the Library's Web site.
Gateway to Massachusetts cases in progress, recently published court opinions, sources on Massachusetts law, rules or guidelines governing court practice and more.
There are fifteen Trial Court Law Libraries located across Massachusetts to serve the courts, attorneys and the public. On this site, we have collected a great deal of information on Massachusetts law that we hope you'll find helpful.