South Dakota in the United States
Legal Materials
Internet links to South Dakota government agencies statutes, regulations, cases, etc. are posted by FindLaw and Washlaw Web. Primary legal materials are also available from Lexis, Westlaw and LOIS. Google Scholar has free cases back to 1950; subscription sites Versuslaw and Fastcase also have cases back to 1950.
To check on the status of a pending bill, call the Legislative Research Counsel at 605-773-3251.
The South Dakota Legal Research Guide (W.S. Hein & Co.) discusses South Dakota legal resourses, but check to see if the edition is current enough for your purposes.
For questions about South Dakota legal materials, copies and/or inter-library loan, try calling the University of South Dakota’s Law Library (605-677-5259).
Note: We linked the resources to archive.org in an effort to decrease the number of broken links cited.
Primary Law
For more U.S. state primary law resources, see:
- 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
Topics Covered by the South Dakota Legal Encyclopedia
Note: More detailed information about this State is provided in the South Dakota jurisdictional legal Encyclopedia, which tie together South Dakota statutory and case law.
Topics include:
- South Dakota Statutes
- SD Cases & Case Law
- South Dakota Legal Websites
- SD State Government Info
- South Dakota Counties
- South Dakota Cities
- South Dakota Legislation
- SD Court Reporters/Depositions
- South Dakota Legal Forms
- South Dakota Courts
- SD State Bar/Legal Associations
- South Dakota Law Enforcement
- South Dakota Media Sources
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