Key Internet Sites for Connecticut
Judges and Lawyers
Start pages | Connecticut | Other states | Local government | Federal government |
| Federal agencies | Courts and judges | Local law schools | Other law schools |
| Reference and legal research | Uniform laws | Training courses | Commercial sites |
| Legal search engines| General search engines |
· Library of Congress Internet Resources Page
URL: http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/us.html
· FindLaw Internet Legal Resources
Links to federal, state and international legal materials. Features a free searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1893.
See also: http://www.lexisone.com/legalresearch/index.html
· Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Libraries
URL: http://www.jud.state.ct.us/lawlib
Links to Connecticut and federal legal materials, and to Connecticut law library catalogs. Includes a Reference desk. Original materials include Connecticut legal bibliographies and pathfinders, particularly on family law.
URL : http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib
Federal, state, and foreign statutes. Includes law of all jurisdiction arranged by subject.
· U.S. Federal Government Agencies
“Your first click to the U.S. Government.”
· Yahoo: Law Subject Directory
URL http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/LAW
Compiled subject guide.
· Thomas—Legislative Information
The information resource for current, up to the minute federal legislation. Searchable databases.
· Cornell Legal Information Institute
URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu
A comprehensive, highly useable site.
· WashLaw Web at Washburn University School of Law
Search case law-federal and state
URL: http://www.washlaw.edu/searchlaw.html
· State of Connecticut Home Page
List of State Agencies
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/exec.htm#AGEN
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/phone/dept.htm
· Connecticut General Statutes
URL: http://prdbasis.cga.state.ct.us/BASIS/TSAMDHP/LIN1/AMD/MSF
Searchable Connecticut Statutes and recent Public and Special Acts
URL: http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2001/pub/Titles.htm
Browseable Connecticut Statutes
How to Find Connecticut Statutes on the Internet
http://sites.netscape.net/larrycheeseman/CGS_online.htm
· Connecticut Bar Association Home Page
URL: http://www.ctbar.org
· Governor
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/governor/
Executive orders from 1995.
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/governor/executiveorders/exec.htm
· Comptroller
URL: http://www.osc.state.ct.us
Administrative memoranda from 1995
URL: http://www.osc.state.ct.us/2001memos/
· Connecticut Attorney General
URL: http://www.cslib.org/attygenl/
Contains full text of Attorney General Opinions from 1993 to date.
· Connecticut Department of Administrative Services
URL : http://www.das.state.ct.us/
Human Resources Services.
URL: http://www.das.state.ct.us/HR/HRhome.htm#RULES
Rules and Regulations
URL: http://www.osc.state.ct.us/2001memos/
Official memoranda from 1996
· Connecticut Department of Banking
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/dob/
Rental Security Deposit Rates
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/dob/pages/intrate.htm
· Connecticut Department of Labor
URL: http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/
Connecticut workplace laws
URL: http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/wgwkstnd/workplace-laws.htm
Connecticut wage payment laws
URL: http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/wgwkstnd/wglaws.htm
· Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles
URL: http://dmvct.org/
Regulations
URL: http://dmvct.org/man/mvregs.pdf
· Connecticut Department of Public Safety
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/dps
· Connecticut Department of Revenue Services
URL: http://www.drs.state.ct.us/
Forms
URL: http://www.drs.state.ct.us/forms/forms.html
Publications
URL: http://www.drs.state.ct.us/pubs/index.html
· Connecticut Department of the Treasury
(including unclaimed property)
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/ott
· Connecticut Department of Public Utilities Control
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/DPUC/
Docket database information
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/DPUC/database.htm
· Connecticut Employment Security Board of Review
Appeals Decision Library (ADLIB)
http://www.ctboard.org/ADLIB.asp
· Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/foi
Final decisions from 1986
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/foi/final_decs.htm
· Connecticut Secretary of State
URL: http://www.sots.state.ct.us/
State Register & Manual:
Concord on the Net – UCC and Corporate Filings
URL: http://www.concord.state.ct.us/
· Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission
URL: http://wcc.state.ct.us/home.htm
Compensation Review Board
Annotated list of opinions
URL: http://wcc.state.ct.us/crb/menus/crb-ann.htm
Opinions
URL: http://wcc.state.ct.us/crb/menus/crb-opin.htm
· Connecticut General Assembly
URL: http://www.cga.state.ct.us/default.asp
General Assembly home page
URL: http://prdbasis.cga.state.ct.us/BASIS/TSAMDHP/LIN1/AMD/MSF
Search 1988-2001 legislation
URL: http://www.cga.state.ct.us/olr/
Office of Legislative Research Reports
How to Compile Connecticut Legislative Histories Using the CGA Home Page http://www.jud.state.ct.us/LawLib/Notebooks/HowTo/CompileLegislativeHistories/cgaleghist.htm
· State Agency Administrative Decisions
URL: http://www.jud.state.ct.us/LawLib/state.htm#Administrative%20Decisions
Comprehensive list
· Connecticut Judicial Home Page
URL: http://www.jud.state.ct.us
Advance Release Opinions
http://www.jud.state.ct.us/external/supapp/aro.htm
Court forms:
http://www.jud.state.ct.us/external/super/forms.htm
Civil/family case lookup:
· Judicial Branch Law Libraries
URL: http://www.jud.state.ct.us/lawlib
· U.S. Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit
URL: http://law.touro.edu/2ndcircuit
URL: http://csmail.law.pace.edu/lawlib/legal/us-legal/judiciary/second-circuit.html
· U.S. District Court for Connecticut
URL: http://www.ctd.uscourts.gov/
· Connecticut legal bibliography
URL: http://www.mccaughtryassociates.com/ctbib/ctbibliography.shtml
COMPREHENSIVE SITES - These sites provide access to a wide range of legal resources on a state-by-state basis.
· FINDLAW
URL: http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/index.html
State resources index. To go directly to an individual state follow the format shown below for CT, NY, and RI.URL: http://
http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/ct/
http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/ny
http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/ri
This site also offers state constitutions at:
http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/indexconst.html
· Administrative Regulations (50-state listing)
URL: http://www.nass.org/acr/internet.html
Lists internet address of each state’s home page, register (e.g. equivalent to the Federal Register), Administrative Code, and any manuals or guides for drafting agencies.
· State Search
URL: http://www.nascio.org/stateSearch
Topical index to State Home Pages
· Most states follow a uniform format for addressing their homepage URL. When looking for information on a state or links to state resources follow the format used in the CT, HI, and MA homepages listed below:
* Connecticut – http://www.state.ct.us/
* New York – http://www.state.ny.us
* Massachusetts – http://www.state.ma.us
These sites offer access to local government links and resources:
· Local Government on Internet
URL: http://www.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm
· Municipal codes
URL:http://www.spl.org/selectedsites/municode.html
URL: http://www.generalcode.com/webcode2.html
· U.S. President
URL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/index.html
· U.S. House of Representatives
URL: http://www.house.gov
· United States Senate
· Thomas—Legislative Information
· Congressional Record
URL: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces150.html
· United States Code
URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
· U.S. Supreme Court
Includes: slip opinions (official), court rules, docket, orders and case handling guides
URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct
Bench opinions
· Federal Register
URL: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html
· Code of Federal Regulations
URL: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/index.html
· Fedworld Information Network
· Copyright & Fair Use
URL: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
· Copyright Resources Online
URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/copyproj.html
· U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
URL: http://www.sec.gov/
· U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
· U.S. Copyright Office
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
· Environmental Protection Agency
URL: http://www.epa.gov/
· Food and Drug Administration
URL: http://www.fda.gov/
· GAO Home Page
URL: http://www.gao.gov/
For Comptroller General Decisions :
URL: http://www.gao.gov/decisions/decision.htm
· IRS Forms and Publications
URL: http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/forms_pubs/index.html
· National Institutes of Health
URL: http://www.nih.gov/
· U.S. Department of Labor
URL: http://www.dol.gov/
· Occupational Safety & Health Administration
URL: http://www.osha.gov
· Department of the Treasury
· Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
· U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
URL: http://www.fdic.gov/
· Federal Communications Commission
URL: http://www.fcc.gov/
· Office of Management and Budget
URL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB/
· National Center for State Courts
URL: http://www.ncsconline.org
· Federal Judiciary Homepage
· American Judicature Society
URL: http://www.ajs.org/
· American Bar Association—Judicial Division
URL: http://www.abanet.org/jd/home.html
· American Judges Association
· National Judicial College
· National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
· Quinnipiac College School of Law
URL: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/academics/law/
Law Library: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/academics/law/library
· University of Connecticut School of Law
URL: http://www.law.uconn.edu/
Law Library: http://www.law.uconn.edu/library/
· Western New England College School of Law
Law Library: http://www.law.wnec.edu/Library/index.html
· Yale Law School
Law Library: http://www.yale.edu/law/library/
· University of Chicago School of Law
· Emory School of Law
Law Library: http://www.law.emory.edu/LAW/library.html
· Pace University School of Law
Law Library:
http://csmail.law.pace.edu/lawlib
· Public records (free searchable databases by state)
· Divorce Net
URL: http://www.divorcenet.com/
Covers all fifty states
· Electronic Reference Desk (Emory Law Library)
URL: http://www.law.emory.edu/LAW/refdesk/toc.html
· Law Journals on the Internet
URL: http://www.usc.edu/dept/law-lib/legal/journals.html
· Law Library Resource Exchange
URL: http://www.llrx.com
· Martindale-Hubbell Online
URL: http://www.martindale.com/locator/home.html
· Statistics (federal)
· Virtual Law Library
URL: http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib
· Draft and Model Uniform Acts
URL: http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/ulc_frame.htm
· Internet for Legal Profession
URL: http://education.socialaw.com/tutorial
· Legal Research Course, Villanova University Law Library
URL: http://vls.law.vill.edu/library/research
· Government Resources on the Internet
URL: http://www.virtualchase.com/govdoc/index.shtml
· INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resources Collection. Libraries of the University of California
URL http://infomine.ucr.edu/welcome
· Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
URL: http://lawyers.martindale.com/marhub
· LOIS Law Links
URL: http://www.pita.com/info/f_lawlinks.HTM
· CATALAW Metasearch Engine
· LAW CRAWLER at Findlaw.com
URL: http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
· LAW DATABASES
URL: http://www.internets.com/slegal.htm
· ROMINGER LEGAL: Where legal research begins on the web
URL: http://www.romingerlegal.com/
· SEARCH-THE-LAW.COM
URL: http://www.search-the-law.com/
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Copyright © 2002 by Southern New England Law Librarians’ Association. All rights reserved.
Compiled by Lawrence Cheeseman, Chair, Publications Committee.