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researching the supreme court of the u.s.

 


section - the supreme court justices

 
collective biographies of the justices
 
bibliographies of the justices
 
papers on the justices
 
nomination hearings of the justices
 
appointment and retirement letters
 
succession of the justices
 
tributes to the justices
 


section - the supreme court and its procedures

 
supreme court rules
 
chief justice's year-end report on the federal judiciary
 


section - supreme court opinions

 
preview & review of the supreme court's term
 
attorneys who argued s¨preme court cases
 
correspondence to the supreme court by the parties
 
supreme court records & briefs
 
oral argument calendar
 
audio files of supreme court oral arguments
 
oral argument transcripts
 
voting records
 
statistics on the supreme court
 


section - supreme court architecture and history

 
architectural questions
 
virtual tour of the supreme court
 
historical questions
 


section - conclusion

selected bibliography

subsequent publications


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Jill Duffy is the Tarlton Law Library Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her J.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1998, and she expects to earn her M.L.I.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. Elizabeth Lambert received her M.S.L.S. from the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 1995, and she expects to earn her J.D. from Boston University in 2000.

The authors wrote this article following their summer internships in the Research Department of the Supreme Court of the United States Library. The authors thank the law librarians at the Supreme Court of the United States not only for their help in writing this article, but also for making the authors’ experiences at the Supreme Court so enjoyable and enriching. Special thanks also go to Kumar Percy, Keith Ann Stiverson, Monika Szakasits, and Beth Youngdale at the University of Texas at Austin for their helpful editing suggestions and advice.




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