Free Internet Legal Resources: Popular Resources

Free online access to the official, authenticated United States Constitution, Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, and other government documents.

The U.S. House of Representatives publishes the current U.S. Code. This website includes a Popular Name Table and tables to determine code sections by Public Law number. It also allows researchers to retrieve code section by citation or search by keyword.

U.S. Government Regulations and comments page. Search for proposed and final rules, comment on proposed rules, and sign up for e-mail alerts and RSS feeds to track pending regulations.

Case information, oral argument transcripts and audio, briefs, court opinions (including bound volumes of U.S. Reports), and Supreme Court Rules.

Database of U.S. Federal District Court cases by state and by year.

The Caselaw Access Project's (“CAP”) goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law School Library. This database includes all state courts, federal courts, and territorial courts for American Samoa, Dakota Territory, Guam, Native American Courts, Navajo Nation, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The earliest case is from 1658, and we currently include all volumes published through 2020, with new data releases on a rolling basis at the beginning of each year.

South Carolina Constitution, Code, regulations, and other legal information

All 50 states' statutes and constitutions, as well as cases and other legal material in an easily navigable format.

State and federal laws, as well as cases and regulations

Light brown box contains links to searchable opinions from the South Carolina Appeals and Supreme Courts.

Choose "Legal documents" to search case law for individual states or all states. Offers full-text searching of state and federal court opinions. Search U.S. Supreme Court opinions, federal courts by circuit, all federal circuits combined, individual states or state court opinions combined.

All 50 states' statutes and constitutions, as well as cases and other legal material in an easily navigable format.

The Caselaw Access Project's (“CAP”) goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law School Library. This database includes all state courts, federal courts, and territorial courts for American Samoa, Dakota Territory, Guam, Native American Courts, Navajo Nation, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The earliest case is from 1658, and we currently include all volumes published through 2020, with new data releases on a rolling basis at the beginning of each year.