US Federal Primary Law

Comprehensive coverage of all federal case law from the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the U.S. District Courts, as well as specialised case law.

Access to the official text of the U.S. Code, the Constitution, the Federal Court Rules, and the Notes of Decisions for current coverage of cases construing and applying federal statutory law.

CFR provides you with the full text of all general and permanent rules of federal executive departments and agencies.

The Federal Register gives you same-day coverage of the actions of federal departments and agencies, as well as amendments to the Code of Federal Regulations.

This system classifies American law into more than 400 topics – and more than 100,000 subtopics – increasing the efficiency of your research by directing you to specific points of law.

Our synopses and headnotes lay out the facts, issues, procedural history, holdings, and disposition of a decision. Further, they contain terms that may not have been used by the authoring judge, so you can retrieve relevant cases that an opinion-only search might miss.

KeyCite is the easy-to-use, powerful tool that includes citations to more than 4 million reported cases, 20 million headnotes, and 1 million unpublished decisions helping you find out whether a decision is good law quickly and easily.

Westlaw StatutesPlus offers you timesaving ways to find, verify, read and interpret federal and state statutes.