Online Sites for finding Primary Caselaw

Public sites: http://www.findlaw.com or Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) [check for others; new sites emerge often]

Password protected site: http://www.lexis-nexis.com/universe; (apply online through the SJSU library resources at http://www.sjlibrary.org/ for a password to access this site).

Whatever site(s) you use, make sure to obtain unabridged PRIMARY appellate caselaw [full legal opinions written by judges in courts of relevant jurisdiction—CA, 9th Cir., or U.S. S. Ct.; do not use federal district court (trial court) cases—they have no precedential value for stare decisis] for the Web Research FIRACT and LRP.