Editor’s Note: This is a news announcement of importance. You can view, read, study the SCOTUS Reports. Here is the notification text from an email: GPO Makes Available Supreme Court Cases Dating Back to the 18th Century
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has made available hundreds of historic volumes of U.S. Supreme Court cases dating from 1790–1991. These cases are published officially in the United States Reports and are now available on GPO’s GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government.
“GPO is proud to make these historic volumes of Supreme Court cases available to the American public,” said GPO Director Hugh Nathanial Halpern. “The addition of this collection to GovInfo is just one more step toward GPO delivering on its vision of an America Informed.
”Major cases available through this new collection include:
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803) https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USREPORTS-5/USREPORTS-5-137: Establishes judicial review, which gives the Supreme Court the authority to review the actions of other branches of Government to determine whether they are constitutional.
The cases of the Supreme Court of the United States are published officially in the United States Reports. The volumes are compiled and published for the Court by the Reporter of Decisions. A volume of the United States Reports also usually contains a list of Justices and officers of the Court during the Term; an allotment of Justices by circuit; announcements of Justices’ investitures and retirements; memorial proceedings for deceased Justices; a cumulative table of cases reported; orders in cases decided in summary fashion; reprints of amendments to the Supreme Court’s Rules and the various sets of Federal Rules of Procedure; a topical index; and a statistical table summarizing case activity for the past three Court Terms.
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United States Reports
The cases of the Supreme Court of the United States are published officially in the United States Reports. The volumes are compiled and published for the Court by the Reporter of Decisions. A volume of the United States Reports also usually contains a list of Justices and officers of the Court during the Term; an allotment of Justices by circuit; announcements of Justices’ investitures and retirements; memorial proceedings for deceased Justices; a cumulative table of cases reported; orders in cases decided in summary fashion; reprints of amendments to the Supreme Court’s Rules and the various sets of Federal Rules of Procedure; a topical index; and a statistical table summarizing case activity for the past three Court Terms.
This collection includes volumes 2 through 501. Volumes 502 through present are available from the U.S. Supreme Court. The early volumes were privately published by the reporter, so the name of the reporter who compiled the volume appears in the United States Reports citation. In addition to U.S. Supreme Court cases, volumes 2-4 contain cases from Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Circuit Court. In this collection, the Pennsylvania cases are only available in the full volume. Volume 1 contains only Pennsylvania cases, so is not included in this collection.
