Once results are displayed, options for doing an enhanced search in the full source range and for Shepardizing cases appear. The Federal Court Locator is a service provided by the Villanova Internet Legal Research Compass. It is intended to give net citizens a means to access information related to the federal judiciary, including slip opinions. This information can be viewed online or it can be downloaded. The Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center provides a great geographical map to the federal courts.
Users can select a court by geographic federal circuit, name, or specialty.
The opinions you access via this search engine are mounted as a cooperative effort among many institutions and individuals, including the Villanova Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Emory Law School, the law schools at Touro and Pace, the University of Texas, and the United States Office for the Administration of the Courts. File formats, titling practices, layout, and typography all vary widely and there may be significant gaps in some collections. LII, updates the index every other day. The updating process is lengthy, because of the high volume of data which must be checked. Very, very recent cases will probably not appear in your search results.