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State Statutes

• Minnesota Statutes -- The full text of the Minnesota Statutes, provided by the Revisor of Statutes.
• State Statutes -- Links by state and by topical area available from Cornell.
• National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws -- Official site for uniform and model acts and includes the ability to find out which uniform acts have been adopted by a particular state.

United States Code

• U.S. Code -- Searchable full text from Cornell with the best organized results.
• U.S. Code -- Search and browse the full text through GPO Access, as provided by the U.S. House of Representatives Office of the Law Revision Counsel.
• U.S. Code -- Searchable full text from the U.S. House of Representatives Office of the Law Revision Counsel.
• Tribal Codes and Constitutions -- The National Tribal Justice Resource Center has links to various Native American tribal codes.

State Constitutions

• Minnesota Constitution
• State Constitutions -- The nonprofit Constitution Society maintains links to each state's constitution.

United States Constitution

• U.S. Constitution -- The Law Library of Congress provides texts, commentaries, historical texts and judicial decisions.
• U.S. Constitution -- Full text from Emory University.
• U.S. Constitution Online -- Includes the text of the U.S. Constitution. Each amendment has its own link, which includes a list of states that ratified the amendment and the dates. Find commentary, history, explanations, and more on this site.

State Regulations

• Minnesota Rules -- The full text of the Minnesota Rules, provided by the Revisor of Statutes. The Drafting Manual with Styles and Forms and Rule making in Minnesota: A Guide are also available.
• Minnesota State Register -- The State Register publishes proposed and adopted rules, official notices, and contracts.
• Administrative Codes and Registers Section -- The National Association of Secretaries of State maintains links to rules and registers in all 50 states.

Federal Regulations

• Code of Federal Regulations -- This search interface is provided by GPO Access. Titles are updated regularly.
• Federal Register -- Updates the Code of Federal Regulations through a searchable interface.
• Regulations.gov -- Find, review, and submit comments on Federal regulations published in the Federal Register that are open for comment.

State Courts and Decisions

• Minnesota
  • Minnesota Advisory Opinions
    • Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board
    • Commissioner of Administration
  • Minnesota Attorney General Opinions -- Includes opinions from 1993 to present.
  • Minnesota State Court System
    • Minnesota Court Forms
    • Minnesota Court Rules
    • Minnesota Court of Appeals Opinions
    • Minnesota State Appellate Courts Archive
    • Minnesota Supreme Court Opinions
    • Minnesota State Law Library -- Library information and catalog, along with links to Minnesota legal resources.
  • Minnesota Tax Court -- Provides a searchable database of opinions.
  • Minnesota Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals -- Provides opinions from 1999 to the present.
  • Office of Administrative Hearings -- This office decides rule making, workers compensation, and child support cases, among others. Search the report database for the full text of reports, recommendations, and orders from public cases since 1993.
• National Center for State Courts -- Provides statistics and other information about state courts, including state court Web sites.
• State Courts - Links to state courts at GovEngine.com

Federal Courts and Decisions

• Federal Judiciary -- Information and answers to frequently asked questions, including links to federal courts. Also includes the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Minnesota). Search there for opinions, briefs, orders, and more.
• PACER -- Public Access to Court Electronic Records is a fee-based service provided by the federal judiciary for electronic access to federal court dockets. Legislators and staff can call the Legislative Reference Library for access.
• Supreme Court Opinions
  • Supreme Court of the United States -- The site includes court rules, information about opinions, and the text of recent opinions.
  • Supreme Court Collection -- Indexed by Cornell University, this site contains opinions since 1990.
  • FedWorld/FLITE Supreme Court Decisions or GPO FLITE Supreme Court Decisions -- Opinions from 1937 to 1975, provided by the U.S. Air Force Federal Legal Information Through Electronics system.
  • Findlaw: Supreme Court Opinions -- Searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893 by citation, case title and full text. Scroll down to get to the search forms.
• Tribal Court Opinions -- The National Tribal Justice Resource Center offers searchable access to tribal court opinions.

State Legislation

• Minnesota Revisor's Manual with Styles and Forms -- The bill drafting manual for Minnesota provided by the Office of the Revisor of Statutes.
• State Legal Materials -- Links by state provided by Cornell. If a state provides legislation on the Internet, a direct link is available.
• State Legislatures -- The National Conference of State Legislature has compiled this listing of state legislature Web sites. Not all state legislatures provide access to legislation, but many do.
• TrendTRACK -- This private company offers 50 state bill searching including the full text of bills.

Federal Legislation

• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet -- Use Thomas for the full text of federal bills, and for federal bill status.

Local Ordinances

• County and Municipal Ordinances -- The Minnesota State Law Library provides links to Minnesota city ordinances online.
• Municipal Codes Online -- Seattle Public Library staff have prepared this list of links to city and county codes throughout the country.

Legal Issues

• ABA LawInfo.org -- The American Bar Association provides legal information for consumers on various topics.
• Bitlaw: a Resource on Technology Law -- Links to technology law, including patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues.
• Compendium of State Firearms Laws -- Summaries of key provisions governing the ownership and use of firearms in each state from the National Rifle Association.
• Consumer Information -- Includes legal help by topic from the Minnesota State Bar Association.
• Copyright Clearance Center -- Information and links on copyright law.
• GigaLaw.com -- Provides articles about Internet and technology legal issues.
• Human Rights Library -- Significant human rights documents are provided by the University of Minnesota Law School.
• LawHelpMN.org -- This site provides answers to legal questions, contact information for legal aid offices, and links to courthouses.
• Minnesota Attorney General's office -- A variety of consumer protection information is available from the Minnesota Attorney General's office.
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse -- In-depth information on a variety of privacy issues, including useful fact sheets.

Legal Profession

• American Association of Law Libraries -- Points to useful law resources, including the Minnesota Association of Law Libraries (MALL).
• American Bar Association -- Contains selected full-text articles from the ABA Journal, and provides ABA LawInfo.org, legal information for consumers on various topics.
• FindLaw West Legal Directory -- Search for biographies of attorneys and information about law firms.
• Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board -- This site includes information about the lawyer discipline system and forms for filing complaints.
• Martindale.com Lawyer Locator -- Search the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory for names of attorneys and information about law firms.
• Minnesota State Bar Association -- Information for members, plus information for the public, including attorney referral services.

Legal resource sites with links to many documents

• American Law Sources Online (ALSO) -- Provides a comprehensive, uniform compilation of links to on-line sources of American law available without charge.
• CataLaw -- A catalog of catalogs, CataLaw speeds research by arranging legal and government indexes on the Internet into a universal metaindex.
• Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals -- Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas provides this searchable database of tables of contents from more than 750 law reviews.
• FindLaw -- This site has a good topical index and is quite comprehensive, with links to many legal sources, including a searchable full-text database of law reviews on the Internet. The LawCrawler searches the contents of legal sites on the Internet. Court forms provide access to forms for both federal and state courts.
• Guide to Law Online -- Prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress, this is an annotated guide to sources of information worldwide on government and law.
• Hieros Gamos -- Hieros Gamos is a comprehensive site for the legal profession. It includes directories of bar associations, law firms, and much more.
• Internet Legal Resource Group -- A categorized index of over 4000 selected legal Web sites, this source also has links to law journals on the Internet.
• LawMoose -- A search engine and directory specifically for Minnesota legal resources. Includes the Minnesota Legal Periodical Index.
• Legal Information Institute -- Provided by Cornell, often the first place to have legal documents online. LII also has Eye on the Courts, a collection of important decisions and news reports commenting on them.
• Legal Journals on the Web -- Created by law librarians at the University of Southern California, this site provides access to law journals.
• LLRX.com -- A good source of up-to-date information on Internet legal research. Includes a searchable database of links to court rules, forms, and dockets, and links to federal, state, and commercial bill tracking resources.
• Minnesota State Law Library -- Library information and catalog, along with links to Minnesota legal resources.
• WashLaw Web -- From Washburn University School of Law, includes foreign and international law by geographic location and by subject, REFLAW: Virtual Law Library Reference Desk, and other law-related links.
• Zimmerman's Research Guide -- An alphabetical guide to legal terms and other legal information sources.

• Minnesota State Legislature Home Page
  
• Minnesota State Constitution
  
• Minnesota Statutes & Session Laws
  
• Legislation & Bill Status/Tracking Information
  
• Minnesota Legislative History Step by Step (Minnesota Legislative Reference Library)
  A guide to Minnesota legislative history research.

Executive Branch

• Minnesota State Rules
  
• Minnesota State Register
  
• Minnesota State Departments & Agencies
  Includes state boards, commissions, councils, committees, ombudsmen offices and task forces.
  
• Rulemaking in Minnesota: A Guide
  Intended for agencies as a reference to the law and rules that govern each step of the rule making process.
  
• Office of the Minnesota Attorney General and Minnesota Attorney General Opinions.
  
• Office of the Governor
  
• Minnesota Secretary of State

Judicial Branch

Minnesota Supreme Court & Court of Appeals
• Minnesota State Court System Home Page
  
• Minnesota Supreme Court Opinions Recent Opinions and previous weeks (May 1996- )
  
• Minnesota Court of Appeals Opinions Recent Opinions and previous opinions back to May 1996 (includes unpublished & order opinions).
  
• Minnesota Court of Appeals: Standards of Review
  Written and periodically updated by Minnesota appellate court judges, this document is "intended as a tool for finding and applying various standards of review. Citations to applicable case law are provided.
  
• Minnesota Tax Court
  Decisions, court rules, forms, pro se information.
  
• Minnesota Workers'Compensation Court of Appeals
  Decisions (1999- current), court rules.

  Minnesota District (Trial) Courts on the Web 
  District Courts Home Page Includes a state map of Minnesota's ten judicial districts and a list of counties within each judicial district.  Links are provided to the court web page for each county and/or links to each county's home page. 

• Court Rules
  

• Court Rules (Minnesota State Court System)
  Includes the text of recent amendments to court rules and the following court rules: Civil Appellate Procedure, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Juvenile Procedure (Protection, Deliquency, Juvenile Petty Offenses and Juvenile Traffic), Guardian Ad Litem Procedure, Adoption Procedure and General Rules of Practice. Many of these rules include an appendix with forms.

Local Government

• Minneapolis:
  Home Page || Charter || Ordinances || Mayor's Office || City Council || City Attorney's Office
  
• St. Paul:
  Home Page || Charter, Legislative & Administrative Codes || Mayor's Office || City Council || Office of the City Attorney

• Minnesota County & Municipal Ordinances (MN State Law Library)
• Local Government in Minnesota (North Star MN Gov't. Online)
  Links to home pages of county, city, township, special district, regional bodies and other local government entities.
• League of Minnesota Cities

Other Web Sites for Locating Minnesota Documents & Information

• North Star (Official web site of the State of Minnesota)
  
• Minnesota Legal Periodical Index (Web-MLPI)
  Covers Minnesota law school, bar association and commercial publications as early as 1984. Links to full-text articles when available on the web. A collaborative effort of the Minnesota State Law Library and Pritchard Law Webs, publisher of LawMoose!
  
• Resources on Minnesota Legislative Issues (MN Legislative Reference Library)

Minnesota Law Libraries and Related Associations

Libraries

Academic

• Hamline University School of Law Library
• University of St. Thomas School of Law Library
• William Mitchell College of Law Library

  County (Twin Cities Metro Area)
  

• Anoka County Law Library
• Dakota County Law Library
• Hennepin County Law Library
• Ramsey County Law Library
• Washington County Law Library
• Directory of County Law Libraries (.pdf format, compiled by the MN State Law Library)

  State
  

• Minnesota Attorney General Library
• Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
• Minnesota State Law Library

  Federal - 8th Circuit
  

• 8th Circuit Minneapolis Branch Library
• 8th Circuit St. Paul Branch Library

  Associations

  
  
• MALL - Minnesota Association of Law Libraries
• AALL - American Association of Law Libraries
• CALCO - Capitol Area Library Consortium
• Special Libraries Association (SLA), SLA Legal Division, SLA Minnesota Chapter
• American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), ASIST Minnesota Chapter