Judicial Branch

OVERVIEWS

Overview of Judicial Branch
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/politics/judbranc/overjud.htm

Our American Government: The Judicial Branch
House Document 102-192, U.S. GPO: 1993

Understanding the Federal Courts, 1999 Edition
http://www.uscourts.gov/UFC99.pdf

The Third Branch of Government: The Federal Judicial Branch
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/8992 .htm

Structure of the Federal Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/8994 .htm

The Courts

Brief Overview of the Supreme Court
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/about/briefoverview.pdf

United States Federal Court System & Decisions
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/glin/us-court.html

Mediation and the Courts
U.S. Department of State, December 1999
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/1299/ijde /ijde1299.htm

How U.S. Courts Work
U.S. Information Agency, September 1999
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0999/ijde /ijde0999.htm

The Supreme Court
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/8995.htm

Courts of Appeals
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/8996.htm

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/8997.htm

District Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/8998.htm

U.S. Bankruptcy Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/8999.htm

Court Personnel
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/89911.htm

Court of International Trade
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/89912.htm

Territorial Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/89913.htm

Administration of the U.S. Courts

The Judicial Conference of the United States
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/89914.htm

Judicial Councils
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/89915.htm

Administrative Office of the United States Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/89916.htm

Federal Judicial Center
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/89917.htm

Directories

Glossary of Terms
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/gloss.htm

Directory of U.S. Courts of Appeals
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/dir.htm

Directory of U.S. District Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/dcts2.htm

Supreme Court Biographies

Photograph of Supreme Court Justices
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/fullcourt.color .html

Justice Breyer
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/breyer.bio.clr .html

Justice Ginsburg
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/ginsburg.bio.clr .html

Justice Kennedy
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/kennedy.bio.clr .html

Justice O'Connor
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/oconnor.bio.clr .html

Justice Rehnquist
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/rehnquist.bio.clr.html

Justice Scalia
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/scalia.bio.clr .html

Justice Souter
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/souter.bio.clr .html

Justice Stevens
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/stevens.bio.clr .html

Justice Thomas
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/thomas.bio.clr .html

Judicial Resources

Citizens for Independent Courts
http://www.faircourts.org

Courts.Net
http://www.courts.net

Federal Courts Law Review
http://www.fclr.org

Federal Judicial Branch Links
http://www.vote-smart.org/judiciary

Federal Judicial Center
http://www.fjc.gov/

Federal Legal Information Through Electronics
http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm

Findlaw Internet Legal Resources: U.S. Supreme Court Opinions
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

Gallup Poll--Supreme Court
http://www.gallup.com/poll/pol_supreme.asp

Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu

The National Center for State Courts
http://www.ncsc.dni.us/ and also http://www/courts.net/

Selected Historic Decisions of the U.S Supreme Court
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/historic.htm

The Supreme Court
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Supreme Court Collection
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct

TheLaw.com
http://thelaw.com

The Third Branch: the newsletter of the federal courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/index.html

U.S. Code
http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm

United States Federal Judiciary
http://www.uscourts.gov/