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Appellate Courts | District Courts | Agencies |
| Attorney General Opinions | Other Jurisdictions | Keyword Searches

Appellate Courts

• Supreme Court of the United States
  • ^newUSSC Official Website - Findlaw & Cornell are better
  • Large collection from Findlaw - from 1893 to present. Magnifico!!
  • Cornell Law School's Site - the "core" site
  • Current decisions and large collection of past decisions
  • Large collection of decision from 1930-1975
  • The House Law Library has multiple links^Updated
  • Yahoos' Links

• Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals^Updated
  • Court's official home page.  Decisions since 10/95. Has digests when you do a search.  Look for party name, date or keyword.
  • You can keep abreast of the latest by looking at the digests of today's opinions [alternate link].
  • Click on "search descriptions" and "daily descriptions" to look at the digest of opinions for the last seven days. [alternate link].
  • The docket sheets are no longer free.  You'll need pacer.
  • Quick information on status of rehearings, pending cert petitions and the lst 14 days' dispositions.

• Iowa Appellate Court Decisions
  • The Iowa Supreme Court web site has
    • Iowa Supreme Court Opinions
    • Opinions of the Court of Appeals.

  • Also the Iowa State Bar Association's web page has the full text of the Iowa Supreme Court's Opinions and of the Iowa Court of Appeals. They appear to get the Supreme Court opinions up within a few days and sometimes even on the same day. Unfortunately the Court of Appeals decisions won't sort by date and so its hard to tell what they are up to. There is a nice full-text search option which is superior to the Supreme Court's.

  • The Iowa Civil Rights Commission has added a collection of civil rights cases from the Iowa Supreme Court and the Iowa Court of Appeals. The collection goes back over ten years.

District Courts

• Iowa Federal District Courts
  • Northern District of Iowa Bankruptcy Court - has a database of decisions!
  • Federal District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - In a major upgrade they now have opinions. Also the text of the Commandments a.k.a the local rules.
  • Federal District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - was last to come on line but has a more extensive site than the Southern District. They have had an opinion collection  longer so it is more extensive than the Southern District opinions. Has the local rules and even court procedures (preferences) by Judge!

• Iowa State District Court Information
  • Contact Information for Iowa District Court Administrators
  • Contact Information for Iowa District Court Clerks
  • Court Service Days - clickable map

Iowa Agency Decisions

• The latest decisions of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission are now available at its web page.
• Iowa Industrial Commissioner Decisions

Iowa Attorney General Opinions

• Collection of opinions starting in July '98 from Iowa bar.
• Some opinions from the AG's office.

Courts From Other Jurisdictions

• Emory's Federal Court Links - clickable circuit map
• Federal Court Listings - from Villanova
• House Law Library Federal Court links
• U.S District Court home pages from Federal Courts Home Page
• National Center for State Court's State Court Links
• State Court Listings - from Villanova
• Yahoo's Court Links
  • Federal
  • State
• Federal Courts Home Page - primarily administrative type of information, like, just what the heck is the federal circuit anyways?
• Federal Judicial Center - very nice documents site including a 175 page monograph on awarding attorney's fees, a complex litigation manual (for judges), and a manual on scientific evidence (with a chapter on statistics).
• National Center for State Courts - again mostly administrative
• National Labor Relations Board Decisions

Keyword Searches

• Iowa Supreme Court Opinions keyword search
• ^newThe 8th Circuit has nice full text search now
• Findlaw has the best legal keyword searches on the net.
• Emory's Keyword search on federal cases.
• Topeka's federal case law keyword search
• Keyword search on case summaries at Law.com
• State law Keyword Search
• Try the Keyword Searches found at Washburn. Many links to other searches.
• All the legal keyword searches are at the MetaIndex kept at Georgia State.

To suggest a link or to report a problem with any of the links I have already please e-mail me at Iowalawweb@aol.com

Latest Update:  6/14/02