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Legal Information Reference Center

Provides online full text from EBSCO for many of the top consumer legal reference books and contains more than 310 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. Many of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.

Access hundreds of legal forms specific to Lousiana with the click of a button. Browse by topic or choose from an A to Z list. Forms are available in Word and Rich Text Format. 

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Legal information starts with the statutes (actual laws) and cases (court proceedings in which the laws are applied).

Nexis Uni Legal Content

• Law review articles from over 500 publications
• Over 300 legal newspapers, magazines and newsletters
• U.S. Supreme Court decisions from January 1790 to present
• U.S. Court of Appeals decisions from 1791 to present
• U.S. District Court decisions from 1789 to present
• Decisions from Bankruptcy Courts; U.S. Court of International Trade; Tax Courts; Courts of Customs and Patent Appeals, and Veterans, Commerce and Military Courts
• State court decisions for all 50 states and territories
• Federal regulations: Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations
• Codes, Constitutions, Court Rules and Attorney General Opinions for all 50 states and territories
• Patents from 1790 forward, searchable by keyword, patent number, classification number, lawyer, assignee, inventor or summary

Louisiana Legislature Search

Search Louisiana laws and the Louisiana Constitution (1974).  Statues are not annotated and no case law is included.