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Legal Research: Indiana Legal Web Sites

Research techniques and Library and Internet resources based on an undergraduate legal research course (at ISU: Political Science 211)

Indiana Courts Info & Links

Indiana Courts Main Page

Learn about the Indiana Court System:

  • Trial Courts [types of courts, types of cases, court process, etc. 
  • Appellate Courts [Supreme Court; Court of Appeals; Tax Court; how a case moves from trial to appellate; how to file appeals, etc.

Information for the Public: Getting Legal Help; Legal Issues Affecting Families; Case Information and more

Office of Education, Communication and Outreach: includes list of Events [Constitution Day; Traveling Oral Argument; lihk to iCivic; webcasts/videos; court coloring book

 

 

Indiana Legal & Legislative Links

Citing Lexis-Nexis Codes

 Codes

MLA
Title number, statute book of the U.S. Code. section. year. publication medium, name of computer service, and date of access.

42 US Code. Sec. 405. 1998. Online. LexisNexis® Academic. 13 February 2010.

APA
Act or Section Name, Abbreviated Citation et seq. (Edition year of the Code) Retrieved date from LexisNexis Academic database.

Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, 20 U.S.C. §2301 et seq. (2006). Retrieved 13 February 2010 from LexisNexis Academic database.