Trials:  What could be more fun than rehashing the hottest, most lurid, most important, or most notorious legal cases we've seen?  Here are some sites for collections of these: 

Famous Trials - UMKC School of Law - Prof. Douglas Linder has 30 of the splashiest and most significant ones, including Socrates, Jesus and Galileo, on to 20th century American items like Scopes in 1925 and O.J. Simpson in 1995.   Scopes Trial Home Page illustrates the sequential presentation of material from these cases.  The mother page for all these materials is Prof. Linder's Constitutional Conflicts.  Linder's list is reproduced at JURIST - Famous Trials, with introduction by Linder for each case and a link at bottom to the full presentation from his own site.

Court TV Online - Trials - Famous Cases:  It's ten or so recent ones, some intrinsically important, others just splashy.  Hey, it's television, whaddaya expect?  But it does include Serbia war crimes, so it's not to be dismissed out of hand.  CourtTV.com- Trials catches whatever is current and in the news:  dog maulings, multiple killings by someone in Texas, shootings of sheriffs, anything "newsworthy" by current entertainment standards of the mass media.  Enjoy.

Federal Government Resources on the Web - Judicial from University of Michigan Documents Center is a good starting site for web resources on the federal judicial branch.

Kieron Wood's pages:  He's got legal terms listed alphabetically from A to Z in nicely usable form.   Great for general referencing.

The Deposition Guide:  If you're headed for court as a witness, here's a useful page.

History of the Federal Judiciary

Courts.Net - The Nation's Courts Directory

Law and Politics Internet Guide includes Law and Politics - U.S. Judicial Resources with

C-SPAN Law/Courts/

ACLU's Year in Civil Liberties 1999:  With enemies like theirs, they must be worth some attention.

Federal Judicial Center

U.S. Supreme Court cases:  Oyez Oyez Oyez has a variety of interesting material, but is slow to load.

Supreme Court of the United States is the official site.  See also:

     LII Supreme Court Collection Home

    2001 Term Opinions of the Court