July 5, 2008
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Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Focuses on protecting the rights of people with mental illness or mental retardation on such policy matters as managed care, housing, and quality control. Funding comes primarily from private foundations and individuals.

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Find legal and legislative information. Search by keyword or category.

Law Periscope
Directory for finding quick info on any of the 300 largest law firms. Also, Attorney Search Feature searches 300 law firm websites and helps find memos on current legal topics produced by these firms and posted on their websites.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
A deep resource of information on criminal justice: corrections, courts, crime prevention, statistics, drugs, juveniles, law enforcement, research, victims. Maintains several mailing lists about police work. Some lists are open, and others are restricted to law officers. Topics include bike cops, cop fleet, high tech crime fighting, criminal justice, emergency management, Department of Justice announcements, law enforcement analysts, firearms instructors, and public safety communications.

Supreme Court bulletins from Cornell
U.S. Supreme Court opinions are distributed, in syllabus form, by Cornell University's Legal Information Institute within hours of their release. Also has decisions from the New York Court of Appeals.


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