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LEGAL RESEARCH

ABA American Bar Association

Legal / law resources, education

ABA American Bar Association Law Info general legal advice, links to law.

ACLU Freedom Network Web page.

ACLU: American Civil Liberties Untion: Government Research Tools, Courts, Constitution, Civil Liberties issues, The Bill of Rights Legal Research, Criminal Justice, Cyber Liberties, Free Speech, HIV / AIDS, Immigrant's Rights, etc.

Alcohol Drug: Addictions Life Page

Treatments, slang terms, more. Drug usage signs and symptoms.

Alcohol Drug California State Programs ADP

California Department of Alcohol Office and Drug Programs. Many criminal justice / rehab links.

Alcohol Drug: Calif. Health and Human Services: Drug, Alcohol, Mental, Social Services

California's Health and Welfare Agency. This system provides a directory of Federal, State and Local government: Drug, Alcohol Mental + Housing resources.

Aclohol Drug: Calif. DMH Dept Mental Health Special Programs: forensic, sex offender, more.

Alcohol Drug: Center On Addiction and Substance Abuse

Alcohol Drug: Calif Society of Addiction Medicine CSAM Members by County

Alcohol Drug: cocaine, coca, and crack - illegal drug information

Pro-drug perspective on cocaine. Very controversial, but useful information on the drug.

Alcohol Drug: CSAT Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Alcohol Drug: Marin Family Service Agency

Alcohol, Drug, Suicided Prevention, Pregnancy to Parenthood.

Alcohol Drug: Mental Disability Facility Locator - SAMHSA Federal site

Alcohol Drug: HIPAA: Confidentiality of health records. Office for Civil Rights - Privacy of Health Records

Alcohol Drug: Lindesmith Center, Drug Policy Research Institute. Medical Marijuana laws.

Medical Marijuana issues, policy studies.

Alcohol Drug: National Drug Court Institute.

Alcohol Drug: NCJRS - National Criminal Justice Reference Service - Club Drugs hallucinogenics

Alcohol Drug: New Leaf Center / Dr. Alex Stalcup MD, Concord, CA. - methamphetamine, heroin, coke, and more.

Free methamphetamine treatment, detox from addictive drugs, expert testimony.

Alcohol Drug: NIAAA Government ETOH ethyl alcohol studies, reports

Alcohol Drug: PREVLINE: NCADI Information SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is the information service of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NCADI is the world's largest resource for current information about alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol, Drug Resources sites: Web of Addictions

Alcohol Drug: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade, slang. Government site.

Alcohol Drug: TAPs --Technical Assistance Publications by CSAT: laws and practices for drug / alcohol providers.

ALSO! Multi State Law Searches

ALSO! a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to all on-line sources of American law that are available without charge. Poor man's Lexis.

American Communication Association WWW law, privacy, access

Many hot links to areas: Law and Legal Research Privacy Rights and Issues

Attorney General California books; law booklets on line.

Attorney General California Opinions online.

Attrorney General's list of Registrable Sex or Arson Offenses

Attorney General US DOJ Violence Against Women resources

Appellate: Central California Appellate Project CCAP

Bar Association: Santa Clara County 's high tech online resources

Links to judges, cases, rules, news, etc.

Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Legal Reference)

BNA Bureau of National Affairs publications

Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA) offers information products covering these areas: Environment; Safety + Hazardous Materials; Health Care; Human Resources; Labor Employment Relations; Legal; business International.

CACJ: California Attorneys For Criminal Justice

Calendar: Count days between dates for Filing - CCAP

Calif Administrative Law - CCR Searchable CALIF CODE REGULATIONS

Alternant URL to get you here: http://www.calregs.com/

Calif. Attorney General, Dept. of Justice - forensics, criminal law info.

Calif. Attorney Records Online -- State Bar of California - addresses, phones, discipline

Calif. Business Service - find Calif. corporations, limited partnerships. Secretary of State

Calif. Board of Prison Terms

Calif. Board of Prison Terms: How to Apply for a Pardon

Calif. Cases and New stories: CAL LAW Archive of recent news

Calif. Cases FindLaw California and Federal cases, FREE

Calif. Cases Findlaw's California Courts Searchable, FREE, 1934 - PRESENT!

Calif. Cases Full Text Searchable: San Diego "The Source"

BIG SITE: FULL TEXT Search California Advance Sheets via San Diego Transcripts.

Calif. Cases JuriSearch Information Network -

Search California cases, Calif. codes and 1967-present US Supreme Court cases and using ACCESS LAW and USSC+ search tools.

Calif. Cases Free Daily Opinion Service - federal too, just the very recent new cases. from LEXIS

Calif. Cases (fee) LRNet: Legal Resource Network - Very Good State and Federal; topical indexes

Calif. Cases PENDING in Supreme and Appellate Courts, California Courts - online dockets and orders.

Calif. Case Summaries: Law on Line

Free services include: Codes, rules of crt, ethics, BAJI, 9th Circuit Federal, recent case summaries, etc.

Calif. Case summaries, criminal law: Grace Suarez, ElectricLawyer

Calif. Cases Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal / FREE; OFFICIAL from A.O.C.

Calif. Cases, Courts of Appeal: UNPUBLISHED Opinions, FREE: OFFICIAL from A.O.C.

Calif. Civil Procedure and Insurance Claims handbooks.

Calif. Code of Regulations - CCR online

alternant URL to get you here:

Calif. Courts: Self-Help Center by Judicial Council

Calif. Department of Justice. DOJ Firearms - Gun Laws

One of many Attorney General criminal justice searchable materials.

Calif. Dept Mental Health Sex Offenders / SVP etc, programs

SVP sexual violent predators, dual diagnosis, County and State hospitals Mental health programs.

Calif Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law Section - State Bar free forms

Calif. Judicial Council; AOC Administrative Office of Courts

Court Rules, cases, policy memos, info on judges and courts.

Calif. Judicial Council Appellate Advocacy advice for appellate attorneys.

Calif. Judicial Council Center for Children and the Courts

Juvenile delinquency and dependency law from California AOC / Judicial Council.

Calif. Judges Association CalCourts.org: The California Judicial System explained for laypersons

Calif. Law and Government via Lawresearch.com

Calif. LEGISLATION EASY pending bills, AB__ and SB___ searches LEGINFO -

Legislative Counsel, California

Calif. Legislative Counsel's guide for findig legislation on Internet

Calif. Legislation via FindLaw Codes and Statutes

Calif. Legislative Analyst's Office - budget et. al.

The Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) provides analysis and nonpartisan advice to the California Legislature on fiscal and policy issues, and has done so for over fifty years. Reports on budgets, crime analysis, bills, etc. New statute impact on local government.

Calif. Legislative Counsel: search codes; more

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL'S official site for California legislative information. Excellent place to search for all Calif. law.

Calif. Legislative History Search Senate; Assembly.

Find Bills of Interest in the California legislature and legislative history, courtesy of California State Senate, Rules Committee. Search archives on all Senate And Assembly Bills via Legislative Counsel Bureau (LCB).

Calif. LexisOne does good job of indexing the State Government, all courts, more.

Calif. Mental Health Records Confidentiality laws

Calif. Records and Information Management (CalRIM) Program

Calif. Senate, Search Calif. law and legislation; officials.

Search Calif. Senate + Assembly Bills, laws, officials, histories of same. TV links. Legislative service. Archives. Public information. Great site!

Calif. Senate Legislative Information and history - Bill Information

Calif. Service Bureau - database used by probation, fines, treatment compliance, etc.

Calif. Statutes / Legislation: FINDLAW California: Codes and Statutes - Great!

Calif. State Assembly / law searches with history to 1993

The California State Assembly. Legislative calendar. Committees. Politicians. Bill Searching, California Codes. Addresses. Government links.

Calif: SVP issues discussed on Atty Michael J. Aye's Home Page

Calif. Supreme Court opinions; recent hearings; calendars

Judicial Council keeps this official site for all Calif. Courts.

Calif Trial Courts Directory: Evidence.Com.

California Trial Courts: Sacramento, Marin, Los Angeles, San Diego, and other States. Search for dockets, names, calendars - civil mostly. Courtroom graphics company maintains site. Links to other Legal sites.

Calif. Will form, Free statutory will form

Cases: lexisONE - Recent free Federal and State cases, Supreme Crt, Free Legal Forms

Free case law from the past five years (plus a complete collection of Supreme Court cases back to 1789), free access to 1,100

Cases: The National Law Journal index to all federal and state opinions on the web.

CEB: Continuing Education of the Bar - California

Cecil Greek's Criminal Justice Page

Searchable CRIMINAL LAW Databases - almost every grouping of interest, including tabloid journalism junk + solid legal research tools. BIG site, very current info via U. South Florida Criminalogy Dept. Search Legal USENET groups, Supreme court, federal cases, statutes, law enforcement sites, DOJ drug sites, more.

Comic Book Covers of Crime from '40s - '50s: Crimeboss

Collaborative Lawyers of Marin

CourtTV Home Page / DNA etc.

Court TV: Electronic Tabloid Lawyering. O.J. Simpson DNA + Forensic transcripts. Other high profile transcripts.

CPDA's CLARA Web Server - subscribers only

California Public Defender Association's CLARA (Criminal Law Automated Research Assistant) home page. Awesome!

CPDA's California Public Defenders Association Public Entry Page

CrimeTime: Criminal Sentencing Calculation Software w/ On-Line calculator

Criminal Arrest: Basis info for arrestees, DUI, etc. - Law office of Benjamin Rice

Santa Cruz Defense Attorney information.

Crime: Identity Theft, credit card theft, US Government FTC information site

Crime News, maps: SF Bay Area Crime Timeline, 2001, 2002

Crimes of Moral Turpitude, by Norton Tooby law firm.

Criminal: California Boalt Journal of Criminal Law Review

Criminal CrimeLynx - Denver based index to defense resources.

Jeralyn Merrit, Denver attorney, maintins this very slick and usful index to defense practitioner's research and commentary sites.

Criminal Justice Distance Learning Consortium

OnLine training info on many Crim Justice subjects.

Criminal Justice History Resources

Criminal Law summaries, outlines, cases via FindLaw

Criminal Law Law - Nolo.com Legal Encyclopedia

Quick overview of Criminal Law.

Criminal Justice links @ New Mexico State University

Criminal Law, Juvenile, Capital death penalty defense: probono.net for volunteer lawyers

Criminal National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)

D.A.: Alameda D.A. office: Point of View Online

Alameda County District Attorney's office does commentaries from the prosecutor's perspective.

D.A. Calif. District Attorneys Association CDAA

D.A. National Prosecutor's online articles NDAA/APRI Publications

Death Penalty: A Capital Defender's Toolbox - Karl Keys case summaries

Legal summaries by Karl Keys, Boston lawyer. Excellent case summaries.

Death Penalty: Capital Defense Network / Federal Habeas + other resources

Death Penalty Curricula for High School - Michigan State Univ.

Death Penalty Focus of California

Death Penalty Information from American Society Criminology.

Death Penalty: The Justice Project.org - almost 70% capital cases flawed

Death Penalty Law / Cornell Univ. L.I.I.

Death Penalty: Louisiana capital defense motions

Death Penalty: Links Toward Abolition / Prison Law Office, The Other Side of the Wall.

Death Penalty Mental Retarded inmates, by Human Rights Watch: "Beyond Reason"

Death Penalty Ninth Circuit Capital Punishment Handbook

Dictionary / Legal / WWLIA

The WWLIA Legal Dictionary. World Wide Legal Information Association.

DUI: Alcohol + Drugs / National Highway Transportation + Safety

Federal site has drinking driving reports, studies.

DUI: Attorney's Defense Guide at Fast Eddie Kuwatch site.

DUI: calculator insure.com - Blood-alcohol calculator

DUI: calculator for volume, weight, etc.

DUI: Calculator Intoximeters Inc. - Drink Wheel

Fill in the form, and the Web will tell you if you were DUI. Lots of stuff on Intoximeters, too.

DUI: California Department of Motor Vehicles

DUI: calculate your blood alcohol content, B.A.C., online or palm pilot.

DUI: Calif. Drunk Driving

An informative page maintained by Driver Performance Institutes First Offender DUI Program in SF. Includes cross links to DUI attorney pages.

DUI: California DUI - A Drunk Driving Law Guide

DUI: California Attorneys/Lawyers - DUI in California Resource

DUI: CALTRANS Official California Vehicle Code Traffic Manual Online

DUI: Drinking Driver Treatment Programs in California, by county.

DUI: Lawrence Taylor Drunk Driving website.

DUI hotlinks, laws, resources.

DUI: National College for DUI Defense

DUI: Professional Online. Drunk Driving Software, Breath testing software + hardware.

DUI Professional Online: Breath Alcohol testing software + info on the Intoxilyzer 5000+ other drunk driving materials.

Dumb Laws

Drug Offenses, Prop 36: CSAC Proposition 36 Implementation - County Plans

Drug Courts: American University OJP clearinghouse.

Drug Courts: NCJRS - National Criminal Justice Reference Service Reports and many links.

Electronic Privacy Information Center EPIC / LAW

EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure, such as the Clipper Chip, the Digital Telephony proposal, national ID cards, medical record privacy, credit records, and the sale of consumer data.

Ethics: ABA American Bar Association

Ethics: American Legal Ethics Library

Legal Ethics in Calif. + other states, searchable. LII Legal Information Institute, Cornell University.

Ethics: Judicial Public Discipline 1960 to Present, Calif. Admin. Office Courts / AOC.

Ethics: Legalethics.com: The Internet Ethics Site

Ethics: State Bar of California Ethics Hotliner, online opinions + laws

Federal AFDA: Association Of Federal Defense Attorneys

Federal CFR: Code of Federal Regulations searchable

National Archives and Records Association searchable Code of Federal Regulations

Federal CFR: Code of Federal Regulations: LII Cornell Univ.

FindLaw Constitutional Law Center

Federal Constitutional Law via FindLaw: Constitutional cases annotated. Also excellent

Federal and more: Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research -cases, laws

Georgia State Univ. Law has a one page front end to find mostly federal law.

Federal Courts' Home Page

U.S. Federal Courts' Home Page. This page is maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the U.S. Courts.

Federal Courts Finder, Emory University - cases.

Federal Judicial Center Home Page

Federal Judicial Center - Admin. Federal + U.S. Courts, Downloadable files include evidence manuals, sentencing studies.

Federal Law Library - Searchable U.S. Code. USCA statutes without annotations.

Searchable Federal Internet Law Library. Statutes and regulations.