Legal Research

• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) - free electronic version of the Code of Federal Regulations and includes tabs that provide current updates for the section and rules from the Federal Register.
• Congress.gov - full text coverage of legislative information from 2001 to present.
• CourtListener - comprised of over 204,000 documents, including most of the U.S. Supreme Court records dating back to 1754, and it also provides access to the non-precedential opinions of the U.S. circuit courts.
• Federal Judicial Center - contains research on federal court operations and procedures and court history.
• FindLaw - articles about common legal topics
• Legal Information Institute - contains Supreme Court decisions and materials to help people understand law.
• Lumen - clearing house for information regarding First Amendment protections and intellectual property laws as they relate to online activities.
• Neighborhood Legal Services - Pittsburgh on-profit organization created to assist low income residents with legal counsel
• Oyez: US Supreme Court Media -"... aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955."
• PA State Code - official publication of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 
• Pittsburgh Legislative Information Center - a way to track and retrieve legislation.
• Public Library of Law - world’s largest online database of United States law; includes case law, statutes, regulations, court rules, constitutions, and legal forms. 
• United States Code - a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States.
• United States Supreme Court - official website of the Supreme Court of the United States. 

The document types that are found on the web sites listed above, such as federal statutes and other legal references, are not cited in the way that other web sites are handled APA Style. The APA Style Blog clarifies how to cite and write your reference list.