Primary Law: Case Law

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Case law encompasses the collection of reported cases forming all or part of the body of law within a given jurisdiction. Other terminologies for case law include: decisional law, adjudicative law, jurisprudence and/or organic law.

The Loislaw Case Law libraries provide comprehensive legal information that includes published civil and criminal proceedings, acquisitions, suits and controversies on the federal level, and on the state level for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Federal Circuit Court Unpublished Opinions from January 1, 2007 under FRAP 32.1 are also included.

Loislaw's deep case law content is updated daily, easily searchable using simple, topical Boolean searching, and features hyperlinks to related cases, statutes and acts, administrative rules, and regulations.

Powerful free legal resources enable practitioners to go beyond basic legal research including:

• GlobalCite® for retrieving any case, statute, or other document that has been cited to a case, statute, rule or regulation being researched
• LawWatch for keeping up with new legal trends and identifying ways to build the practice
• Find A Case for accessing cases by a known citation

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Case Law Databases

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Case Law by State