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Legal Research Tips - Sometimes you need to look up a law to get an answer to your legal question. To find a law, statute, code section, or case, see the FAQs on this site from Nolo Press. Also definitions, statutes, federal and state links, local ordinances.
Legal Information Institute - Cornell University Law School's extensive and user-friendly clearinghouse of legal information including statutes, executive orders, bills, and Supreme Court decisions.
Justice Information Center - From the National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Links to Web sites and full-text documents of statistical data and scholarly research. Arranged by broad subject
U. S. Department of Justice - Statistics and research about fighting crime, the justice system, hot topics, and crime victims, including violence against women and family violence.