Maine in the United States
Legal Materials
Internet links to government agencies statutes, regulations, cases, etc. are posted byFindLaw and Washlaw. Primary legal materials are also available from Lexis, Westlawand LOIS. Subscription services Versuslaw and Fastcase have cases back to 1950;Google Scholar has cases back to 1950 for free. Supreme and appellate court cases are published in West’s Atlantic Reporter.
You can check the status of a pending bill through the Michigan Legislature’s bill search. For questions about pending bills, call the Legislative Information Office at 207-287-1692. You can track the progress of a bill on Lexis or Westlaw (ME-BILLTRK). You can also get the full text of bills from Lexis or Westlaw (ME-BILLTXT or just ME-BILLS, which has both the bills and the tracking record).
West publishes Maine Civil Practice, and Towers Publishing puts out William Wells’Maine Legal Research Guide.
For questions about Maine legal materials, copies and/or inter-library loan, try calling the Maine State Law & Legislative Reference Library (207-287-1600) or the University of Maine Law Library (207-780-4829).
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 Maine Legal Encyclopedia
Note: More detailed information about this State is provided in the Maine jurisdictional legal Encyclopedia, which tie together Maine statutory and case law.
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