Law

General Information

• Ask the Judge - information for teens about the law
• Arizona State Law Library
• FindLaw - a comprehensive legal resource for both lawyers and nonlawyers
• GSU College of Law -- Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
• Ross - Blakley Law Library - at Arizona State University.
• Law Library of Congress
• Lawyers.com - information and directory service from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
• LII / Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School
• Maricopa County Superior Court Law Library
• State Bar of Arizona
• WWW Virtual Law Library at the Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington
• WORLDLawDirect.com

Law Directories

• Findlaw Lawyer Directory
• Lawyers.com - directory and legal information from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell.

International Law

• The World Community
  • United Nations Homepage - A description of the international organization and its many agencies.

   

• Treaties
  • International Humanitarian Law - posted by the International Committee of the Red Cross

Constitutional and Administrative Law

• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy - a single, concise page with links to historic documents, including the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights; legislative and regulatory materials such as congressional bills and the CFR, and the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance; demographic and statistical resources, and much more.
• Constitution of the United States
  • The Bill of Rights (amendments 1-10)
  • Other Amendments to the Constitution (that have been ratified)
• Arizona State Constitution
• The Tempe City Code

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• Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - full text of this act and information about how to use it, provided by the National Security Archive at the Gelman Library, George Washington University.
• The Flag - Chapter 4 of the United States Code as posted at Cornell University's Legal Information Institute includes standards for displaying the U.S.  flag.
• U.S. State Constitutions - listed by Yahoo

Commercial Law

• The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
• Arizona Real Estate Law Book - links to selected provisions in the Arizona Revised Statutes, Administrative code, and other sources dealing with real estate law.

Income Tax Law

To get current tax forms in Tempe without downloading them, please read this.

• Arizona Department of Revenue
• Internal Revenue Service
• State Tax Agencies - the listing from Yahoo!

Private Law

Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks

• Intellectual Property Information - links to and information about patents, trademarks, and copyright, available both online and in Arizona libraries, posted by ASU's Noble Library.

• ASCAP Clearance Express (ACE) - You can search this music copyright index by song title, album title, composer, lyricist, or performer.
• United States Copyright Office
• U. S. Patent & Trademark Office - includes patent searching, downloadable forms, and links to related sites

Courts

• Tempe Municipal Court
• Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County
• Arizona Judicial Branch
• [Federal] Judicial Branch Resources
• Supreme Court of the United States

• Legal Forms
  • Arizona Supreme Court Self-Service Center - designed to provide information and forms for persons who are representing themselves in court.
  • Arizona Attorney General's Life Care Planning Documents - power of attorney, living will, and other forms designed for use by Arizona seniors.
  • Maricopa County Bar Association Legal Forms Center - a large selection of legal forms may be searched by state and by area of legal practice. 

Laws (Statutes), Regulations, Cases

[City of Tempe] [Tribal Law] [Arizona] [United States]

• City of Tempe
  • Tempe City Code

• Tribal Law
  • Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project - a cooperative effort among the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library (NILL), and Native American tribes providing access to the Constitutions, Tribal Codes, and other legal documents
  • Tribal Court Codes, Constitutions and Charters - a project of the National Tribal Justice Resource Center

• State of Arizona
  • Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS)
  • Arizona Administrative Code

• Arizona State Legislature - contact information, bills, floor calendar, Arizona law, and much more.

• United States
  • United States Code
  • Code of Federal Regulations

• GPO Access - These include the U.S. Code, Public Laws, the Federal Register, Congressional bills, the Congressional Record, the Budget of the United States, and much more from the Government Printing Office.

• Supreme Court Collection 1990 - present, plus selected historic decisions (Cornell University Law School)
• Supreme Court Opinions - 1893 - present (FindLaw)

• Need a print copy of a Federal document? If you are in the United States, you can locate the Federal depository library nearest to you.