Legal Sources

Web Sites: Table of Contents

Law at the U.S. Department of the Interior

HeinOnline -- Accessible from DOI Locations Only

• U.S. Department of the Interior Collection

Laws, Regulations, Policies and Decisions

• ELIPS: Electronic Library of Interior Policies
  This source contains links to Secretary's Orders, Departmental Manual chapters, and Bulletins/Memoranda

• Bureau of Land Management

  • Laws, Regulations, Policies, Court Decisions

  • Federal Register Notices
    1995 through 2007 only

• Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

• • BOEM Governing Statutes

  • Regulation and Guidance

  • Federal Register Notices

  • Regulatory Reforms

• Bureau of Reclamation

  • Reclamation Manual

• Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

  • Regulations and Guidance

  • Internal Policy and Directives

  • Current Regulations

  • BSEE Policy Manual

• Fish and Wildlife Service

• • Digest of Federal Resource Laws

  • Directives
    Includes Servicewide policies, Directors' Orders, Handbooks, and the FWS Manual

  • Centralized Library of Servicewide Policies

  • Federal Register Notices

• Geological Survey

  • Laws , Policies and Guidelines

  • U.S. Geological Survey Manual

• Office of Hearings and Appeals

  • Search the Database of Cases Decided by the Office of Hearings and Appeals

  • Finding IBIA (Interior Board of Indian Appeals) Decisions (1970 to the present)

  • Cumulative Chronological Index of IBIA Cases

  • Finding Pre-IBIA Decisions (prior to 1970)

  • Finding IBLA (Interior Board of Land Appeals) Decisions (1970 to the present)

  • Cumulative Chronological Index of IBLA Cases

        The office provides access to these decisions:

A and M Decisions (1920-1970)
Copps Mineral and Public Land Laws (1881, 1890)
Digest of Grazing Decisions (1993-2001)
Director's Decisions (1996 to the present)
Hearings Division (Selected, 2000 to the present)
IBIA Decisions (1970 to the present)
IBLA Decisions (1970 to the present)
Land Decisions (1881-1929) and Interior Decisions (1930-1994)
Solicitor's Opinions (1993 to the present)

• National Park Service

• • Laws and Legislative Information

  • Office of Policy

  • National NAGPRA Notices and  NAGPRA laws and regulations

• Office of Natural Resources Revenue

• Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement

  • Laws, Regulations, and Guidance

• Office of the Solicitor

  • Solicitor's Opinions ("M" Decisions, 1993 to the present)

  • Decisions of the U.S. Department of the Interior (1881 to 1994)

Indian Law

See the Library's guide on Native Americans, Legal Sources

 

Presidential Documents

• The American Presidency Project
  The archives contain over 100,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency, from 1789 to the present

• Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders from April 13, 1945 through January 20, 1989

• Executive Orders
  Disposition Tables, January 8, 1937 to the present (Office of Federal Register)

• Office of Management and Budget
  with links to Bulletins, Circulars, and Memoranda

• Statements of Administration Policy on Non-Appropriations and Appropriations Bills
  Published by the Office of Management and Budget

• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
  From the Reagan administration to the present

• Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents
  formerly the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 1993 to the present

Case Law

• Constitution of the United States
  National Archives and Records Administration

• Federal Court Locator, Find a Federal Case (PACER), and About the Federal Courts

• Federal Law Collection
  Provided by the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School

• Findlaw's Cases and Codes
  Contains resources and links for both state and federal laws.

• National Center for State Courts: Court Web Sites

• The Oyez Project
  Multimedia, devoted to the Supreme Court

• Supreme Court Official Web Site, the Bound Volumes (United States Reports, 1991 to the present), and Where to Obtain Supreme Court Opinions

• SCOTUSBlog

• Supreme Court Decisions, 1990 to the present, and a Historic Case collection
  Provided by the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School
   

Bills, Hearings, Statutes and Regulations

Federal Laws and Regulations

Current

• Active Legislation
  Provided weekly by the U.S. Senate Library while Congress is in session

• Congress.gov
  Congress.gov, the successor to THOMAS.gov, is a collaborative effort by the Library of Congress, Senate, House of Representatives, and the Government Publishing Office. Researchers can now search across all of the content in the system, refine their results, quickly see the status of a bill on a timeline, and view the new Member pages with sponsored and co-sponsored legislation. Additionally, the system is designed to dynamically fit any size screen used: mobile, notebook, and/or computer.

• FDSys (Government Publishing Office)

• Regulations.gov
  An electronic rulemaking repository, enabling Departments and Agencies to post all rulemaking documents for public access and comment

• Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives
  Maintained by the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives

• Rules of the U.S. Senate
  Maintained by the Rules Committee of the Senate

• The Budget Process
  Links to CRS reports on the budget process. Some have been updated.

Retrospective

• Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
  A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873, contains records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress through the Forty-second Congress. The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress comprise a rich documentary history of the construction of the nation, the development of the federal government, and its role in the national life. The collection is maintained by the Library of Congress.

• Legislative Histories
  Compiled and provided by the U.S. Department of Justice Library

• Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet: Free Sources
  Compiled by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.

State Laws and Regulations

• Findlaw's Cases and Codes
  US State Laws - Cases, Codes, Statutes and Regulations

• State and Local Government on the Net

• State Law, Government and Legislative Information
  WashLaw WEB, produced by Washburn University School of Law

• Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet

Local Laws and Regulations

• Municipal Code Online Library
  Produced by the Municipal Code Corporation

• Cities on the Internet
  Produced by MultiState Associates