Finding Civil Rights Cases
Landmark Supreme Court Cases by Call Number: KF8742 .H37ISBN: 9780816069576Publication Date: 2012This three volume set analyzes court cases organized chronologically by issue (including civil rights) with each entry including the case title and legal citation, year of decision, key issue, historical background, legal arguments, decision, significance, related cases, and recommended reading.
Finding case documents
Often when researching civil rights cases, you will want to examine the court filings.
- The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978, contains many briefs from the final years of the court’s fourth chief justice, John Marshall, through the first 10 years of the court’s 15th justice, Warren Earl Burger. Some cases consist of a few documents and others may include dozens of documents, especially for cases actually heard by the Court.
- The Records and Briefs of the Supreme Court of the United StatesIf you are looking for lower court filings for a case that was heard by the Supreme Court or for cases more recently than 1978, use the microforms sets:
1914-most recent: Microforms Room US 503 UNI (Drawers 907-940)
1832-1915: Microforms Room US 503 UNI (Drawers 878-891) - HLS Library Guide to Records, Briefs & Court FilingsOur research guide to finding more federal and state court documents.