Connecticut in the United States
Connecticut Legal Materials
The State of Connecticut links to executive, legislative and judicial branch Web sites. For more links, try FindLaw.
Legislative materials: Connecticut’s legislative code, the General Statutes of Connecticut, is posted free on the Connecticut General Assembly’s Statutes page. The code is also available on Fastcase, and Loislaw. Annotated editions are available onLexis (CONN;CODE) and Westlaw (CT-ST-ANN). Historical editions are available onLexis back to 1990 (CODES;CTxxxx or CODES;CTARCH to search all years from 1992 to the present) and Westlaw back to 1997 (CT-STANNxx).
To check on the status of a pending bill, pull up the bill on the General Assembly web site and scroll down to the “Bill Status” section. For questions on pending legislation, call the Bill Room (860-240-0333; active only during the Legislative Session). For other questions, call the General Assembly’s Legislative Library (860-240-8888) or the Law and Legislative Reference division of the Connecticut State Library (860-757-6590).
Session laws (known as “Public Acts” and “Special Acts”) are available in theAdvanced Legislative Document Search back to 1988. Older session laws are available back to 1776 in the subscription-based Session Laws Library on HeinOnline. Otherwise, call the Law and Legislative Reference division of the Connecticut state law library (860-757-6590) or another large Connecticut law library for copies.
The Law and Legislative Reference division of the Connecticut State Library (860-757-6590) will compile legislative histories for a reasonable fee. For information about Connecticut legislative history materials, see the Guide to Connecticut Legislative History by the Connecticut State Library or Connecticut Legislative History by the University of Connecticut School of Law Library. See How to Compile a Connecticut Legislative History for information on retrieving legislative materials from the General Assembly web site.
Administrative materials: The Connecticut Administrative Code, known as theRegulations of Connecticut State Agencies, is published in print by the Commission on Official Legal Publications. As of 2010, there was no free online edition of theRegulations of Connecticut State Agencies. Check the relevant agency web site to see if regulations are posted there.
Online editions of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies are available from onLexis (CONN;CTADMN or CONN;CTREGS to search the Regulations along with related articles from the Connecticut Law Journal) and Westlaw (CT-ADC). Historical editions are available on Lexis back to 2004 (CONN;CTADxx) and Westlaw back to 2002 (CT-ADCxx).
Note on Regulations: Connecticut regulations use the same numbers as the Connecticut statute they are promulgated under. In other words, all the regs under §4-3 of the Connecticut General Statutes are in §4-3 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
Dockets / Case Information: The Connecticut court system posts free online “Look-ups” for searching and retrieving docket sheets and case information. Court PC of Connecticut is a commercial service, including cases that have been removed from the free search back to 1985 for civil cases, back to 1991 for criminal cases. See theDocket Sheets entry for more commercial services.
Around 2013, the Civil Court started posting case file documents as hyperlinks through at lease some online docket sheets. For older cases, only the “Notices” are available.
The Law and Legislative Reference division of the Connecticut State Library (860-757-6590) can provide copies of case files (i.e. “Records and Briefs”) from the Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Courts.
For Questions and Copies: The Connecticut State Library has a Law and Legislative Reference division with a friendly, helpful staff who can answer questions about Connecticut legal materials (860-757-6590). Or try the University of Connecticut School of Law Library (860 570-5200).
Note: We linked the resources to archive.org in an effort to decrease the number of broken links cited.
For more primary law resources, see …
- U.S. State Law: Constitutional
- U.S. State Cases
- U.S. State Law: Judicial Rules
- U.S. State Law: Codes
- U.S. State Law: Statutes
- U.S. State Legislative: Bills
- U.S. State Law: Executive & Administrative
- U.S. State Law: Municipal
Topics Covered by the Connecticut Legal Encyclopedia
Note: More detailed information about this State is provided in the Connecticut jurisdictional legal Encyclopedia, which tie together Connecticut statutory and case law.
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- Connecticut Codes & Regulations
- Connecticut Constitution
- CT Cases & Case Law
- Connecticut Legal Websites
- CT State Government Info
- Connecticut Counties
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- Connecticut Legislation CT Court Reporters/Depositions
- Connecticut Legal Forms
- Connecticut Courts
- Connecticut Local Court Rules
- CT State Bar/Legal Associations
- Connecticut Law Enforcement
- Connecticut Media Sources
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