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Minnesota Attorney General's Office

1400 Bremer Tower
445 Minnesota Street
St. Paul, MN 55101

(651) 296-3353
(800) 657-3787

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Judicial Information

Federal Court Decisions:

(Supreme, Appeals, District/Bankruptcy/Other, Docket)

Federal Judiciary Home Page: List of all federal courts by circuit plus miscellaneous federal court links.

PACER: search dockets by court or use the US Party/Case Index. Log-in required.

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court of the US Web Site includes information about the court and justices, opinions, orders, court rules, calendars, docket, and transcripts.
FindLaw Supreme Court Center: the "docket list" provides links to Supreme Court and lower court decisions, docket sheet, oral argument transcripts, and Supreme Court briefs.
ABA Supreme Court Preview: Merit briefs, "Cases at a Glance" offers an advance look at the issues raised in every case slated for oral argument, and selected full-text articles about pending cases.
LII Supreme Court Collection at Cornell Law School: contains current and historic decisions; searchable order list database, summary of questions presented. Subscribe to e-mail notification of court opinions.
OpenJurist has decision from 30 US Reports forward. Search or browse the opinions.
Oyez Includes audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.

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U.S. Court of Appeal

Federal Judiciary Home Page: List of all federal courts by circuit plus miscellaneous federal court links.

OpenJurist has opinions of the US Courts of Appeals from the 1st - 3d series of Federal Reporter. Search or browse the opinions.

1st Circuit Court of Appeals: recent opinions, court rules, docket, etc.
2nd Circuit Decisions: recent opinions, court rules, docket, etc.
3d Circuit Court of Appeals, today's opinions & archive, court rules, docket, etc.
- 3rd Circuit Decisions, 5/94-present from Villanova Law School.
4th Circuit Court of Appeals: today's opinions & archive, court rules, docket, etc.
- 4th Circuit Decisions, 1995-2001 from Emory Law School.
5th Circuit Court of Appeals, today's opinions & archive, court rules, docket, etc.
6th Circuit Court of Appeals, decisions back to 1994, court rules, docket, etc.
7th Circuit Decisions Current opinions, rules, docket, etc.
8th Circuit Court of Appeals and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
- One Stop Search" locates all documents for a case if you have the case number.
- Retrieve today's opinions
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, opinions, court rules, calendar, etc.
10th Circuit Court of Appeals, opinions, court rules, docket, calendar, etc.
- 10th Circuit Decisions, 10/97-present from Washburn Law School.
11th Circuit Court of Appeals: court rules, court information, etc.
- 11th Circuit Decisions, 11/94-present from Emory Law School.
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals: opinions, rules, calendar, etc.
- Federal Circuit Decisions, 1995-present from Georgetown Law School.
DC Circuit Court of Appeals: opinions, court rules, docket, calendar, etc.
- DC Circuit Decisions, 8/95-present from Georgetown Law School.

Findlaw cases : Circuit courts of appeals decisions dating back to mid-90s.
Search all US Circuit Court of Appeals opinions on the Internet. Produced by Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School.

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U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Other Federal Courts

Minnesota
- U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota.
- Minnesota Bankruptcy Court.
Federal Judiciary Home Page: List of all federal courts by circuit plus miscellaneous federal court links.

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Docket Information

PACER Web Links (login and password needed): access to court dockets.
Court Rules, Forms, and Dockets: from LLRX: Search or browse over 700 sources

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Judicial Information: Minnesota

Minnesota State Court System:

MACS - the case management system of the Minnesota Appellate Courts, providing access to the status of appeals.Minnesota State Court System:

Minnesota Supreme Court:
- This week's Supreme Court Opinions: opinions are available at 1:00 pm on Thursdays. Scroll down the page to "Syllabus" and use the docket number as a link to the full-text.
- Supreme Court Calendar: descriptions of cases scheduled for oral argument
- Administrative files: contains reports and petitions for rule changes submitted by court advisory committees, Supreme Court orders that amend the rules, task force reports, and other administrative documents dating back to 1979.

Minnesota Court of Appeals:
- This week's Court of Appeals Opinions and list of order opinions are available at 1:00 pm on Tuesdays. Docket number is the link to the full-text.
- Court of Appeals Calendar
- Special Term Opinion Subject Matter Index in Word format or PDF.
- Standards of Review

Archive: Opinions of the Minnesota State Appellate Courts Archive. All opinions from the Minnesota Appellate Courts released since May 2, 1996 (except current week) are available. (Court of Appeals unpublished opinions are available the day following release.) Access is by date, docket number, first party name, or you may search by keyword.

Minnesota Tax Court

Minnesota Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals

Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board and Office.

Minnesota District Courts: Use the state map to find links to information about district courts.

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Judicial Information: Other States:

State and Local Government on the Web

NLJ's State Court List

Alaska Court System: Appellate courts slip opinions, trial court name index, court information, etc.
Arizona Judicial Branch: Recent decisions, court rules, docket and other court information.
Arkansas Judiciary: Appellate courts slip opinions, dockets, links to lower courts
California Courts: links to recent opinions, forms, rules, court information.
Colorado Courts
Connecticut Judicial Branch
Delaware Courts: links to various levels of Delaware court information including opinions, rules, forms, etc.
Florida State Courts

Florida Supreme Court Briefs and Opinions since August 1996 provided by Florida State University College of Law Library.

Supreme Court of Georgia: links to opinions, dockets, rules, court information.
Hawaii State Judiciary
Idaho State Judiciary : court opinions, rules, forms, information.
Illinois Judicial System Online
Indiana Judicial System: court opinions, docket, oral arguments, rules, forms, court information.
Iowa Judicial Branch
Kansas Judicial Branch
Kentucky Court of Justice
Louisiana Supreme Court
Maine Judicial Branch
Maryland Judiciary
Massachusetts Judicial Branch
Michigan Courts
Minnesota State Court System
Mississippi Supreme Court
Missouri Judiciary
Montana Supreme Court
Nebraska Judicial Branch
Nevada Supreme Court
New Hampshire Judicial Branch
New Jersey Judiciary
New Mexico State Judiciary: Court decisions, dockets, information, etc.
New York State Unified Court System
North Carolina Court System
North Dakota Supreme Court Opinions, mid-1993-present.
Ohio Supreme Court
Oklahoma State Courts Network:
Oregon Judicial Department:
Pennsylvania's Unified Judicial System
Rhode Island Judiciary
South Carolina Judicial Department
South Dakota Unified Judicial System
Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts
Texas Judiciary Online
Utah State Court System
Vermont Judiciary
Virginia Judicial System
Washington State Courts
West Virginia Supreme Court
Wisconsin Court System

Opinions of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals from WisBar

Wyoming Supreme Court Opinions

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Links to Court Rules

Minnesota court rules

Minnesota Court Rules available from the MN State Court's web site.

Federal court rules

US Supreme Court rules
Federal Rulemaking: the federal judiciary's web site includes national and local rules in effect, proposed rules, and background material.
Links to local rules for federal courts

Eighth Circuit
US District Court
US Bankruptcy Court for Minnesota local rules

Links to other court rules

Court Rules, Forms, and Dockets from LLRX: Search or browse over 700 sources

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Links to Court Forms

Minnesota court forms

Minnesota court forms from the Minnesota Courts Web site.
Tax Court forms

Federal court forms

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
US District Court for Minnesota
Official Bankruptcy forms
US Bankruptcy Court for Minnesota local forms

Links to other forms

Court Forms from FindLaw: links to many state & federal forms
Court Rules, Forms, and Dockets from LLRX: Search or browse over 700 sources

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Ethics and Professional Conduct

Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board and Office.

MN Rules of Professional Conduct, effective October 1, 2005, amended July 1, 2007.

Appendix 1 to MRPC

MN Rules on Lawyers Professional Responsibility, effective January 1, 1989 with amendments received through September 1, 2005

Opinions of the LPRB

Professional Responsibilities articles from Finance & Commerce and Bench & Bar.

ABA Center for Professional Responsibility: includes the full text of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, annotated with comments and comparisons to the Model Code, as well as summaries of recent opinions of the ABA's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
American Legal Ethics Library: a digital library from Cornell Law School on legal and judicial ethics, arranged in a state-by-state format.
Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers: contains a thorough and up-to-date library of links
Legal Ethics contains links to rules of professional conduct and ethics opinions for various states.
National Organization of Bar Counsel: includes a semi-annual compilation of summaries of court decisions on attorney disciplinary matters
A Web of Legal Ethics: Rules of Professional Conduct: an article with tips for researching ethics topics on the Internet; includes a list of ethics web sites.

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Legislative Information

Minnesota

MN State Legislature: Contains full text of all versions of bills, full text of House and Senate journals, bill summaries, bill tracking information, full text of session laws, and Minnesota Statutes.

General Information about the Minnesota State Legislature web site.
Revisor’s Manual With Styles and Forms: a guide to bill drafting.
Legislative History Step-by-Step

Other States

State Legislatures Internet Links: compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
State law search page, a service of Washburn Univ. School of Law.

Wisconsin Statutes.

Statutes by Topic: Cornell site with links to most states' statutes.

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Federal

Congress: Members, bills, reports, committees

THOMAS - Library of Congress service for legislative information. Full text of House and Senate bills, Congressional Record, and the U.S. Constitution. All are searchable by keyword.
GPO Access, U.S. Congress: Includes congressional bills since 103d Congress, congressional reports and documents since 104th Congress, Congressional Record since 103d Congress, history of bills since 1983, public laws since 104th Congress, U.S. Code, House Rules Manual, Senate Manual, calendars, and directory.
House of Representatives Contains information about House member, committees, leadership, House floor schedules, committee hearing schedules, and other general information about the House.
Senate Contains information about Senators, committees, and legislative action.
U.S. Congress. Senate, House, & Executive Reports: search full text of Congressional reports.
Directories

Elected Officials Directory: biographical information for the president, members of Congress, governors, and state legislators.
Biographical Directory of the US Congress: 1774 to present. Includes color pictures.

Federal Statutes, Laws, etc.

U.S. Code - Search or browse the Code from the U.S. House of Representatives. (Check currency.) The database includes all official U.S. Code notes and appendices.

U.S. Code Classification Tables: These tables show where recently enacted laws will appear in the United States Code and which sections of the Code have been amended by those laws.

U.S. Code from Cornell Law School's LII. Access the code by title, by a Table of Popular Names, by citation, or search a title by keyword.
Compiled Acts with Amendments (contains cites to U.S. Code sections):

Agricultural compilations: Provided by the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry.
Environmental: Links to full-text of some amended acts, such as NEPA, compiled by EPA.
Social Security Laws: a compilation including the Social Security Act, as amended, and related enactments through January 1. 1999.
Telecommunications Act of 1934 with 1996 amendments

THOMAS - Library of Congress service for legislative information. Full text of House and Senate bills, Congressional Record, and the U.S. Constitution. All are searchable by keyword.
GPO Access, Congressional materials: Includes congressional bills since 103d Congress, congressional reports and documents since 104th Congress, Congressional Record since 103d Congress, history of bills since 1983, public laws since 104th Congress, U.S. Code, House Rules Manual, Senate Manual, calendars, and directory.

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Local

St. Paul ordinances
Minnesota County and Municipal Ordinances links to codes for more than 60 cities and counties compiled by the State Law Library
Municipal Codes on the Internet: from American Legal Publishing Corporation.
Municipal ordinances by state.
Municipal Codes selected web sites from the Seattle Public Library.
LexisNexis Municipal Codes : Library of codes of ordinances.

County Codes and Ordinances : topical listing from the National Association of Counties.

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Federal Executive/Administrative Law

Today's Federal Register Table of Contents:

PDF format.
With links to the full-text.

Federal Register Online via GPO Access: Database for 1994 to present (Volumes 59- ) .
Regulations.gov: find and review all federal rules that are open for comment as published in the Federal Register. Search by keyword or by agency. The site has a feature enabling the public to submit comments electronically.
Code of Federal Regulations from the National Archives and Records Administration's Office of the Federal Register and the Government Printing Office.

Retrieve by citation
browse by title.

List of Sections Affected - Use to update CFR for amendments - check all three links.

Latest cumulation
Last month's changes
Current month's changes

Executive Order disposition table - information about EOs since 1933 including amendments and current status. Full text of EOs 1993 to date.
GPO Access: Executive Branch Resources on GPO Access.
Federal Administrative Decisions - Compiled by the Law Library at the University of Virginia

Selected list of Federal Agencies and Services:

USA.Gov Executive Branch: An official US government web site. Search or browse a list for agencies.
SearchGov.com: Another way to find federal agencies.
FedWorld a collection of federal databases maintained by the NTIS, containing scientific and related business information.

Copyright Information from the Library of Congress.
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Communications Commission
Food and Drug Administration Current information on drugs, medical devices, foods, food additives, and cosmetics. Includes a section on Children & Tobacco.
General Accounting Office Includes full-text of selected recently issued reports and general information about the GAO.
Internal Revenue Service. Includes federal tax forms. Electronic Reading Room includes written determinations, information letters, and other publications.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services including CMS Manuals
National Criminal Justice Reference Center (NCJRS).
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission: rules and regulations, agency decisions since 1981, and guides to proceedings.
Office of Management and Budget: includes description of the Office, budget and OMB documents, including OMB circulars.
Securities and Exchange Commission includes EDGAR database of corporate information, SEC News Digest and public statements, current SEC rulemaking, proposals and final rules, and SEC enforcement actions.
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Patents and Trademark Office
The White House

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Minnesota Executive/Administrative Law

Minnesota Official Notices and Rules:

Minnesota Rules: state agency regulations
Minnesota State Register: a new issue each Monday. Search or browse the archive containing issues back to March 17, 1997.

Minnesota Rulemaking Guides:

Minnesota Rules Drafting Manual with Styles and Forms, 1997, Office of the Revisor of Statutes.
Rulemaking in Minnesota: A Guide by Paul M. Marinac, published by the Office of the Revisor of Statutes, February 2002.
Minnesota Rulemaking Manual: A Reference Book For The Practitioner, current edition.

Minnesota Administrative Decisions:

Office of Administrative Hearings: includes a form to search ALJ decisions from 1993 to present.
A.G. Opinions: Formal opinions released since January, 1993.
Commissioner of Administration Advisory Opinions: 1993 to present. Access data practices opinions by year, by entity, or search by keyword. An index by topic is also available.
Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure Board: formerly the Ethical Practices Board, contains copies of the Board's Advisory Opinions.
DHS Fair Hearings Decision Database: search human services appeals decisions from July 2001.
Minnesota Department of Revenue. Minnesota Revenue Notices. Revenue notices are policy statements that provide interpretation, details, or supplementary information concerning the application of Minnesota state tax laws or rules.

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Selected Minnesota Agency Information:

North Star Minnesota Government Information and Services: general access to Minnesota government information and libraries.
Minnesota Guidebook to State Agency Services: this link contains excerpts from the Guidebook. Print copies are available in the library and with receptionists.

Attorney General's Office: See the latest press releases, consumer publications, searchable charities database, and other office information.
Department of Human Services site has Manuals, Reports, and Bulletins.
Department of Trade and Economic Development:

includes Compare Minnesota: a statistical and economic factbook.

Office of Geographic and Demographic Analysis provides broad demographic, statistical, and environmental information about Minnesota

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Other States Executive/Administrative Law

State and Local Government on the Web. 50 states sites, multi-state sites, federal resources relating to state and local government, national associations.
SearchGov.com: Another way to find state and local agencies.

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Library Catalogs, Indexes, Files

MnPALS Libraries
State agencies, state colleges and universities, Hill Reference, others.

A.G. Library	Library Catalog
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Historical Society Library	Library Catalog	Information
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Law School Libraries

University of Minnesota	Library Catalog	Information
Hamline University Law Library	Library Catalog	Information
St. Thomas Law Library	Library Catalog	Information
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County Law Libraries

Anoka County Law Library	Library Catalog	Information
Carver County Law Library	Library Catalog	Information
Dakota County Law Library	Library Catalog	Information
Hennepin County Law Library	Library Catalog	Information
Ramsey County Law Library	Library Catalog	Information
Scott County Law Library	Library Catalog	Information
Washington County Law Library	Library Catalog	Information
Directory of Minnesota County Law Libraries

Public Libraries

Anoka County Public Library	Library Catalog	Information
Carver County Public Library	Library Catalog	Information
Dakota County Public Library	Library Catalog	Information
Hennepin County Public Library	Library Catalog	Information
Minneapolis Public Library	Library Catalog	Information
Ramsey County Public Library	Library Catalog	Information
Scott County Public Library	Library Catalog	Information
St. Paul Public Library	Library Catalog	Information
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Periodical Indexes (May require passwords or authorization)

MNLink: Minnesota library gateway includes indexes to newspapers and periodicals in all subject areas and includes full-text of many articles.
MEDLINE Plus: from the National Library of Medicine. Choose Health Topics for links on common diseases and conditions and simplified Medline.
- PubMed: Search MEDLINE from the National Library of Medicine.
Minnesota Magazine Index: Index of articles that appeared in nine Minnesota magazines from 1991 to 2005.
Uncover (Ingenta) Contains the table of contents of some 17,000 journals. Search the file by author, title, or keyword in title or summary.
Gold Rush: browse or search for electronic journals.

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News

Minnesota Newspapers: a listing of all Minnesota newspapers with links to more than 50 Minnesota newspapers' web sites and e-mail addresses.

Star Tribune: read today's news or search a 14-day archive.
St. Paul PioneerPlanet: read today's news or browse a 7-day archive.
Duluth News-Tribune: read today's news or search a 7-day archive.
The Business Journal (formerly Mpls/St. Paul CityBusiness): includes top news stories from this week's edition. You can browse or search the archive of articles to October, 1996.
Minnesota Lawyer: weekly legal news from Finance & Commerce.
Minnesota Daily: daily news from the University of Minnesota. Browse or search the archives.

AlltheWeb News: indexes newspaper web sites throughout the day. Good for finding very recent news articles. Includes indexing for the Star Tribune.
AJR News Link: American Journalism Review presents links to U.S. and Canadian papers cross-indexed by category, state and province. Also provides links to campus papers and newspapers worldwide.
E&P MediaInfo Links: In addition to links to newspapers worldwide, you will find links to associations, city guides, magazine, radio, and television.
Newspaper Archives on the Web: Newspaper links on this page are listed by state with dates of coverage. Access to those papers designated as Infinet can be accessed without charge on the 1050 NCL library search PC next to the window. Check with library staff for access instructions.
HeadlineSpot links to US and world news sources, including newswires.

Washington Post
New York Times: read today's news and search the archive by keywords.
Law.com: daily headlines and stories from American Lawyer Media's 20 print publications plus an archive of articles.
Lawyers Weekly: stories, synopses and full-text documents from Lawyers Weekly USA and six state newspapers.
USA Today
CBS Headlines
CNN
News from Reuters

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Directories

Associations

American Bar Association
Minnesota Bar Association
Minnesota CLE
Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association
National Association of Attorneys General
Associations on the Net: Guide to web sites of prominent organizations and associations.

Attorneys

Attorneys General for all states: Master list from NAAG containing address, phone number and web site.
Findlaw: West Legal Directory
Minnesota Attorney Registration System: Use registration number to find address.
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
Minnesota State Bar Association: search the membership directory

Experts

Findlaw: Experts and Consultants.
JurisPro.com: searchable directory of expert witnesses.
LawInfo: Expert Witness Database.
ExpertPages: browse for experts by category.

Geographical

Area Decoder: Find area codes by city
Directory of County Court Houses in the U.S.
Geographic Names Information System: find the county when you know the city or township
Minnesota City/County/Township Search: Find the county for a Minnesota city or see a list of all cities and townships in a county.
Zip Code Directory: Enter an address and find the Zip Code and county.
Zip Code Finder: Find Zip Code by city, county, state, or area code. Find distance between two Zip Codes or all Zips within a radius. Enter a Zip Code and find statistics of the area.

Government - Minnesota

White Pages Staff Directory: Search by name.
Yellow Pages: Browse by department.
Minnesota Blue Book (Legislative Manual): official directory of facts, statistics, and data for the state of Minnesota
Legislature
- Find Your Representative: District Finder from the MN Legislature or District Finder from the UofM: enter address to list representatives
- 2006 Election Directory of the 2007/08 MN Legislature: pictoral biographic directory of House and Senate members.
- Legislators Past & Present: coverage since territorial time.
Registered Lobbyists and Associations: lists maintained by the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board.
Minnesota Statewide ADR-Rule 114 Neutrals Roster

Government - Federal/Nationwide

Elected Officials Directory: biographical information for the president, members of Congress, governors, and state legislators.
Congressional Directories from the Joint Committee on Printing
- Biographical: 104th Congress to present.
- Pictoral: 105th Congress to present.
Find Your Representative: enter a ZIP code.
Biographical Directory of the US Congress: 1774 to present. Includes color pictures.
U.S. Government Manual: Browse or search to find comprehensive information on legislative, judicial, and executive agencies.
U.S. Mayors: search by last name, city/state, or population to find brief information about mayors nationwide.
Who's Who in Federal Government: from the Government Publications Department of the Library at the University of Memphis.Contains links to biographical information about members of Cabinet, Congress, federal agencies, and others.

Judges

Minnesota
- Minnesota judges from MN Judicial Branch web site.
- Tax Court
- Hennepin County: (from: The Court) profiles and assignments
- Hennepin County: (from: HCBA) profiles, assignments and courtroom management
- Office of Administrative Hearings
- LawMoose Minnesota Judges Directory: browse by court to find profiles and articles by and about judges.
- Judges biographies: compiled by the Hennepin County Law Library.
- Minnesota Statewide ADR-Rule 114 Neutrals Roster
Federal
- Judges of the US Courts: a database of biographical information about all federal judges serving since 1789.

White and Yellow Pages & Reverse Directories

DexKnows White Pages: includes Search by Name, Reverse Phone and Reverse Address.
YellowPages.com: find Find by Name, Find by Phone Number, or Find by Address.
Toll Free: The Internet 800 Directory.
InfoUSA's Directory Assistance Plus: look up people and businesses by name or phone. Map feature shows location of company.
Langenberg.com: Look-up listings by phone number or street address.
Switchboard: Search the white pages by name.
Telephone Directories on the Web: an extensive list of directories on the WWW.
Yahoo People search: Search by name.

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Reference

This section includes: dictionaries, general reference, encyclopedias, quotations, and statistics.

Dictionaries

Legal

Law.com Dictionary: The Real Life Dictionary of the Law
Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law: from FindLaw.
Specialty Dictionaries - Law: links to other legal dictionaries.
General

Merriam Webster OnLine : Dictionary, thesaurus, and Spanish/English.
The Free Dictionary by Farlex: a searchable multi-dictionary database which includes results from American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed. and many other dictionaries.
Roget Thesaurus
Your Dictionary.com: lists of 1,000 dictionaries in over 200 languages.
Acronym Finder: A searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.
Specialty

Specialty Dictionaries: links to many dictionaries on a variety of topics.
Telecom Glossary 2007 provided by ATIS.
Telecommunications Dictionary & Terms: a dictionary of telecommunications terms.

General Reference Web Sites

Answers.com: returns answers to your search from relevant sources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, etc.

Bartleby.com contains encyclopedias, world fact book, dictionaries, style manuals, and other reference works.

Fugitive Fact File: a service of the Hennepin County Library, locates hard-to-find and elusive information.

GPO Style Manual - search by keyword or browse by chapter.

ipl2 - "Information you can trust": the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library and the Librarians' Internet Index.

RefDesk.Com - "The single best source for facts on the Internet"

Robert's Rules of Order, 2000 ed. Browse the table of contents or search by keyword.

Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. The classic work of rules of usage and principles of composition. Browse the table of contents or search by keyword.
Statistics/Rankings

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts: provides bankruptcy statistics, judicial facts and figures, and other statisitcs.
American FactFinder: searchable data from 2000 census with results presented in tables and maps.
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Datasets and publications on crime and victims, law enforcement, prosecution, federal justice system, courts and sentencing, etc.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Regular statistical reports and customizable tables.
Criminal Justice Statistics: Statistics publications published by NCJRS.
FedStats: The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy provides access to statistics and information produced by over 70 U.S. agencies.
Minnesota Data and Maps: information from MN Planning includes statistics on criminal justice, health, children, census, land use, and population.
Minnesota Facts and Figures: business and economic development analysis and labor market statistics from the Department of Employment and Economic Development.
Minnesota Health Statistics: from the Department of Health
MinnStats: the link to Minnesota statistical data
National Center for Education Statistics: contains many publications including The Condition of Education, The Projections of Education Statistics, and Education Statistics Quarterly.
Population Reference Bureau: Search population and health data.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics: from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Sourcebook brings together data about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States.
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.: the standard summary of statistics for social, political, and economic topics. View current and historical data.
Statistical Resources on the Web from the University of Michigan Documents Center. Find government statistics by topic.

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Public Records

Minnesota Secretary of State On-line Access: Business Services
Other States Secretaries of State and business records:

Business Filings Databases: links to states that have business filings information available on-line.
Secretaries of State web links from the National Association of Secretaries of State.
State and Local Government on the Net use the Statewide Offices listing for SOS information.

Minnesota Real Property Searches: these services from county offices provide online access to geographic and tax record information for individual parcels of property. The information found may include items such as property address, estimated market value, current taxes, last sale price, assessment category, building details or year built. Searches are generally by address, property identification number, or by a map.

Aitkin County Property, Parcel search

Anoka County Property Information

Becker County Parcel Information Search

Beltrami Property Search

Benton Property Search

Blue Earth County Property Information Search

Brown County Property Information Search

Carlton County Parcel Information System

Carver County Property Tax Information

Cass County Parcel Information

Chippewa County Property Information Search

Chisago County Property Search

Clay County Property

Clearwater County Property

Cook County Parcel Inquiry

Cottonwood County Property

Crow Wing County Tax Information Search

Dakota County Real Estate Inquiry

Dodge County Property Search

Douglas County Parcel Listing

Duluth, City Assessor's Office

Freeborn County Property Search

Goodhue County Tax Information

Grant County Parcel Search

Hennepin County Property Information Search

Houston County Property
Hubbard County Parcel Information

Isanti County Property Tax Information

Itasca County Parcel Information System

Kanabec County Property Record Search

Kandiyohi County Property Tax Information

Koochiching County Parcel Info System

Lake County Parcel Info System

Le Sueur County Property
Lincoln County Tax Information
Lyon County Tax Information
Marshall County Tax Information

Martin County Tax Search

McLeod Property Tax Information

Meeker County Tax Information
Mille Lacs Tax Information
Morrison County Tax Search

Mower County Assessor Search

Murray County Property Tax Information

Nicollet County Property Search

Nobles County Property Tax Information

Norman County Parcel Listing

Olmsted County Property Records

Otter Tail County Property Tax Information

Pine County Property Information

Pope County Parcel Listing

Ramsey County Property Records and Revenue

Redwood County Parcel Listing

Renville County Parcel Listing

Rice County Assessor On-line

Rock County Parcel Listing

St. Louis County Property Tax Lookup

Scott County Property Information
Sherburne County Tax Search

Stearns County Tax Search

Steele County Assessor's Office

Stevens County Tax Information

Swift County Tax Information

Todd County Property Information

Wabasha County Property Information

Waseca County Property Information

Washington County Property Information

Watonwan County Property Information

Wilkin County Property Information

Winona County Property Information

Wright County Property Tax Information

Yellow Medicine County Tax Information

Portico: list of nationwide real estate on-line assessors
Free Internet Access to Government Public Records: from BRB Publications; 275 links to public record information from state, county, city & federal offices.
Social Security Death Index.
Vital Records Information: contains information about where to obtain vital records and prices for records from each state and territory of the United States. Also includes an index to each state's county vital records offices.
Black Book On-line: "A Guide to Free Web Based Database Searches For PIs."
Virtual Gumshoe - Investigative resources on the Internet.

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Search Engines

USAGov: An official US government web site. Search or browse a list for agencies.
SearchGov.com: Another way to find state or federal government agencies.
LawCrawler searches only legal sites on the Internet.
MetaCrawler sends queries to multiple search engines simultaneously.
Mamma: the mother of all search engines. Mamma uses: Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler, Yahoo, and HotBot to create its results.
Ixquick: a meta search site.
Alta Vista
Ask.com
Excite
Google
Go.com
Lycos
WebBrain: suggests resources and related concepts based on keyword searches.
Webcrawler
YAHOO

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