Vermont in the United States

Legal Materials

Internet links to Vermont government agencies, statutes, regulations, cases, etc. are posted by FindLaw, Washlaw and the Georgetown Law Library.

The Vermont Legislative Council posts the current Vermont Constitution, the Vermont statutory code (“Vermont Statutes”), reports published by the Legislature and reports submitted to the legislature.

To check on the status of a pending bill, pull it up on the Vermont Legislature’s Bill Status page. For questions, call the Legislative Council at 802-828-2231.

Supreme Court cases are published in the Vermont Reports back to 1826, and West’sAtlantic Reporter back to 1885. For older case reporters, see the Blue Book section on Vermont.

All reported cases are available on Lexis and Westlaw. Google Scholar, Versuslaw and Fastcase have cases back to 1950.

Basic case information from “all superior courts, district courts, family courts, and bankruptcy courts” is available through Vermont Court Search.

Questions and Copies: For questions about Vermont legal materials, copies and/or inter-library loan, contact the Vermont Department of Libraries (Vermont’s state library) at 802-828-3268, or the Vermont Law School Library at 802-831-1441.

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 Law: Constitutional
• U.S. State Law: Judicial Rules
• U.S. State Law: Statutes
• U.S. State Law: Executive & Administrative

Topics Covered by the Vermont Legal Encyclopedia

Note: More detailed information about this State is provided in the Vermont jurisdictional legal Encyclopedia, which tie together Vermont statutory and case law.

Topics include:

• Vermont Statutes
• VT Cases & Case Law
• Vermont Legal Websites
• VT State Government Info
• Vermont Counties
• Vermont Cities
• Vermont Legislation
• VT Court Reporters/Depositions
• Vermont Legal Forms
• Vermont Courts
• VT State Bar/Legal Associations
• Vermont Law Enforcement

Resources

See Also

• Case Pulls
• State Legal Ethics
• Legal Treatises
• Shepardizing (legal research)
• U.S. State Law Sources