Electronic Sources
Records, Briefs & Oral Arguments
The Curiae Project
Currently (as of
4/05) in beta version, Project Curiae provides access to U.S. Supreme Court
records and briefs, including links to oral arguments (as available from the Oyez Project) and links to case opinions
available from the LII - Legal
Information Institute and FindLaw. The Curiae
Project is located at the Yale Law Library and is being developed in cooperation
with the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the
Supreme Court Historical Society.
Briefs & Oral Arguments
LexisNexis (Access restricted to
law students & law faculty only)
Briefs: Earliest
brief dated August 12, 1936 through current. Includes merit briefs for cases
granted cert., amicus curiae briefs, joint appendices and special masters
beginning in January 1979, with selected coverage from 1936. All briefs for
cases granted cert. begins after 1993. Also includes all briefs for cases
petitioning for cert. after 2001. (library name: crtfls file name:
briefs).
Oral Argument Transcripts: Coverage is from
1979 through current. Update schedule: within 2 weeks of publication.
(library name: genfed; file name: ustran).
Briefs & Oral Arguments
LexisNexis Academic (Access
from U of M campus. Off-campus access restricted to U of M affiliated users).
U.S. Supreme Court briefs and oral argument transcripts from January
1979 through current. Coverage is not comprehensive. Locate case opinion
and click on links from opinion to access available briefs and oral argument
transcripts.
Briefs & Oral Arguments
Westlaw
(Access restricted to law students & law faculty only)
Briefs: This database includes Merits and Amicus
Briefs filed with the United States Supreme Court for cases in which certiorari
has been granted or probable jurisdiction has been noted and for which oral
arguments have been scheduled. Merits Briefs date from the 1990-91 Term to the
present. Amicus briefs date from the 1995-96 Term to the present.
(database identifier: sct-briefs).
Oral Argument
Transcripts: This database includes official transcripts of
oral arguments in cases heard by the United States Supreme Court from the
Court's 1990-91 Term to the present. (database identifier: sct-oralarg).
Briefs
United States Supreme Court
Records and Briefs, 1832 - 1978
Document types include Appellant's
Brief; Appellee's Brief; Application for Review; Application for Writ; Brief in
Opposition; Brief of Real Party; Intervenor’s Brief; Jurisdictional Statement;
Letter Brief; Opposition for Review; Oral Transcript; Petition; Petition for
Rehearing; Petitioner’s Brief; Petition for Writ of Certiorari; Relator’s Brief;
Supplement to Petition; Transcript; among other sources. Browse and full text
searching capability are provided. Searches by specific keywords or phrases,
author (counsel or organization), case name, court term year and document filing
date, U.S. Reports citation number are available.
Briefs
Findlaw -
Supreme Court Briefs
Briefs are arranged by term (starting with the
1999/2000 term) and alphabetically by first-party case name.
Briefs
ABA - Division for Public Education
Merits and amicus briefs from 2003-2004 term to current.
Briefs
Briefs of the Office of the
Solicitor General
Includes briefs filed in all cases by the Solicitor
General other than responses in "in forma pauperis" (IFP) cases. All briefs
filed by the Solicitor General with the Supreme Court (except IFP cases) are
available from July 1998. Selected merits briefs and responses are available as
early as 1982. See web site for details of coverage, document format and search
and browse options.
Oral Argument
Argument
Transcripts (Supreme Court of the United States web site)
Arranged by
term, argument session (starting with the 2000 term), docket number and case
name.
Oral Argument
Oyez, U.S.
Supreme Court Multimedia
Recordings of oral arguments from leading
constitutional law cases. New recordings are added approximately 10 months
following the Term in which the cases were argued in the Court. Coverage from
1955 to current (pre-1995 coverage is selective).
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