The Supreme Court's web site has the Court's Docket, listing cases granted review and schedules of arguments.
The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School has the court's docket and argument calendars, with links to lower court decisions, briefs, and links to summaries of cases prepared by the Medill School of Journalism. Sign up for the LII Bulletin to get summaries of new decisions by email as soon as they are released.
Findlaw's U.S. Supreme Court Center is a handy place to find dockets, calendars, and briefs, for the current terms, and past terms back to October 1999.
The SCOTUSblog features news, information, and analysis on a variety of issues related to the Supreme Court.
United States Law Week, a weekly law journal from BNA, summaries of cases on the court's dockets and up-to-date status information in the Supreme Court Today section. United States Law Week also reports on arguments in major cases, splits between circuits, and publishes a roundup of cases at the end of every term.
Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases - newsletter published by the American Bar Association, which often includes summaries of cases from U of C professors
Online: Findlaw (from 1999 in PDF)
Online: ABA (merit and amicus briefs for past year only in PDF)
Westlaw: SCT-BRIEF (merit briefs, appendixes, and transcripts of oral arguments for cases argued since the October 1990 term; amicus briefs for cases argued since the October 1995 term)
LexisNexis: CRTFLS;BRIEFS (merit briefs from October 1979 term; amicus briefs and joint appendixes through 1992 term)
LexisNexis Academic: Federal & State Cases (merit briefs from October 1979 term; amicus briefs and joint appendixes through 1992 term)
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 (briefs and records for argued and cert denied cases, both searchable full text and PDF images)
Microfilm: Case papers of the Supreme Court of the U.S., 1790-1807 (contains briefs and records from 1790 - 1807)
Call Number: K8, D'Angelo Law Library, Microforms
Microfilm: Briefs and Records of the U.S. Supreme Court (contains briefs from 1832-1896)
Call Number: K146, Regenstein 3rd Floor, Law Microforms
The D'Angelo Law Library is a depository for Supreme Court Briefs and Records, but they are currently in storage and not available.
The Supreme Court posts transcripts of oral arguments on their web site. Beginning with the 2000 term, transcripts will be available the same day as arguments.
Oyez has recordings of arguments in streaming audio and MP3 formats.
Westlaw - oral arguments are in the database SCT-ORALARG
The Library receives transcripts of oral arguments, on microfiche, from the 1969 term to the last term.
Title: The complete oral arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Call number: microfiche XXKF101.9.C729, D'Angelo Law Microforms.
Landmark Briefs and and arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States, constitutional law includes transcripts for arguments when available. Call number: XXKF101.8.K87, D'Angelo Law Stacks.
Another copy: JK1507 1975, Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 2.
Opinions are first issued as slip opinions. Later, "preliminary prints" of the United States Reports are printed, and three years later, once the Court has made its final corrections, bound volumes of United States Reports are printed. Bound volumes of the United States Reports are in the Wilson Reading Room and D'Angelo Law Stacks, fifth floor, at call number XXKF101.A212. Preliminary prints are in the Reserve Reading Room.
Hein Online has every opinion in PDF form, from slip opinions, preliminary prints, and bound volumes of United States Reports.
The Supreme Court has a table of dates of decisions and arguments in cases published in United States Reports volumes 2 -107 (1791-1882), gathered from handwritten Court records, the Engrossed Minutes and Engrossed Documents.
United States Law Week. Opinions appear in print within a week.
Print edition: XXKF101.1.U53, D'Angelo Law Reserve Reading Room
West's Supreme Court Reporter is on Westlaw (database SCT), with PDF images and star pages for U.S. Reports.
Print edition: XXKF101.A322, D'Angelo Law Library Wilson Reading Room and Bookstacks; unbound advance sheets in the D'Angelo Law Reserve Reading Room.
United Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers Edition (L.Ed. 2d) are published by LexisNexis, and are available on LexisNexis and LexisNexis Academic. Lawyers Edition includes summaries of briefs and articles, or annotations, about important cases.
Print edition: XXKF101.A313, D'Angelo Law Library, Wilson Reading Room and Bookstacks.
David G. Savage, Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court (4th ed., CQ Press, 2004) Two-volume encyclopedic history of the Court. Includes brief biographies of the justices, chronology of major decisions, chronological table of natural courts, list of acts declared unconstitutional, full text of key decisions.
CQ Supreme Court Collection - encyclopedia articles, yearbooks, biographies of justices, and statistical analysis of the Court's voting dynamics and alignments from 1948 to the present.
Lee Epstein et al. (eds.), The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments. (4th ed. CQ Press, 2007)
The Supreme Court Database (BETA) - contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court between the 1953 and 2008 terms. Download the entire table for use with STATA, or generate your own data sets or cross-tabulations online.
Leon Friedman & Fred L. Israel (eds.), The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions. 5 vols. 1995 - Biographies of the justices and resumes of their work, vital statistics from Roy M. Mersky, a list of justices and tables of natural courts, acts held unconstitutional, Supreme Court decisions overruled by later decisions, and appointments by political party.
XXKF8744.F750 1995, D'Angelo Law Library, Reference
Claire Cushman (ed.), The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789-1995 (1995) Published by Congressional Quarterly for the Supreme Court Historical Society.
XXKF8744.S860 1995, D'Angelo Law Library, Reference
Johnny H. Killian & George A. Costello (eds.), The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation: Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 28, 2002. (2004; with 2006 supplement) Includes tables of federal, state, and local laws held unconstitutional, overruled Supreme Court decisions, and unratified proposed amendments to the Constitution.
Albert P. Blaustein and Roy M. Mersky, The First One Hundred Justices: Statistical Studies on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Roy M. Mersky & J. Myron Jacobstein (eds.), The Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1916-. Buffalo : W.S. Hein, 1977-.
XXKF8744.J80, D'Angelo Law Library, Bookstacks
Harvard Law Review - Every year since 1951, the Harvard Law Review has published a discussion of the major decisions of the latest term, and statistical analysis of the justices' votes. Look for the article titled "Supreme Court: 20xx Term."
The Supreme Court Review. An annual law review edited by faculty of the University of Chicago Law School.
KA1.S91 D'Angelo Law Library, Reserve Room, Bookstacks, and Chicago Collection
Interviews of United States Supreme Court Justices - video interviews with eight of the nine Justices, conducted by Bryan Garner in 2006-2007.
