This source contains all laws of a general and permanent nature including laws and amendments passed by the first regular and first extraordinary sessions of the 48th legislature, with supplement volumes taking it to the 50th legislature in 2006..   The statutes are arranged by title and indexed by subject.   The most current year is available in the reference section. Past years and their supplements can be located in the circulating collection. Also available on the Internet at: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/osStatuesTitle.html , or through LoisLaw

This source contains all laws of a general and permanent nature including laws and amendments passed by the first regular and first extraordinary sessions of the legislature up to 1993 and a pocket part that updates the Statutes until 2001. The statutes are arranged by title and indexed by subject. The difference between this and the regular Oklahoma Statutes is the annotations.

Codified text of the U.S. laws. This is the official edition of the code containing all the general and permanent laws of the United States. The last complete edition is the 2000 edition.   It is arranged by title (subject) and section number and is supplemented annually. The title that is most concerned with Education is Title 20. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is found in Title 20, paragraphs 1400-1491.  You can also search the U. S. Code on the Internet at http://uscode.house.gov/, or at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/index.html, or through LoisLaw

The official text of all public laws passed by the Congress of the United States.  This reference gives the law as it was originally passed by Congress. The public laws in this set are organized by the number of the Congress that passed them.  Public laws are also available on the Internet for the 101st through the 109th Congress at http://thomas.loc.gov/  You can find the United States Statutes at Large online at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/statutes/index.html. The individuals With Disabilities Education Act is found under Public Law 102-119.  The 1997 Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act are found at Public Law 105-17.

This is the unofficial version of the United States Code which contains important references to court decisions in addition to the text of the laws. It is updated more frequently than the official version and is more useful from a reference standpoint.

This source provides a subject arrangement of current regulations promulgated by federal agencies. Codified text. It is organized by title. Some of the titles that are of interest to Education:

• Title 34: Education
• Title 41: Public Contracts and Property Management
• Title 42: Public Health

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html.

Published every business day. Contains updates on legislation, rules and regulations, Presidential documents, proposed rules, notices of hearings, announcements new federal grants, and much more. You can access the Federal Register on the Internet at:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

A topic arrangement of all of Oklahoma's rules established by state agencies and by executive orders. This code is also available online at: http://www.sos.state.ok.us/oar/oar_welcome.htm

This is the official bound edition of the United States Supreme Court decisions. Before they are bound the official Supreme Court decisions are printed individually and are called slip opinions. The most recent years of slip opinions  that have not been bound are located in the Government Documents collection on Floor 2A. The supreme court decisions are also available online through FindLaw at: http://www.findlaw.com, or through LoisLaw

Published by West Publishing Company. Contains cases decided in United States Supreme Court. The library has from 1912 to 1978.

This contains an outline of the law by topic that has been developed by West Publishing Company, the publisher of federal and court cases. This outline of the law is called the West Key Number System. It gives citations to judicial cases in the U.S. Supreme Court Reports, Supreme Court Reporter and Corpus Juris Secundum.  Ii also gives citation to any legislation pertaining to subject. 

• Volumes 1A-1D: Descriptive Word Index
• Volumes 2-13A West's Outline of the Law
• Volumes 14-14A Table of Cases
• Volumes 15-15A Defendant-Plaintiff table
• Volumes 16-16A Court Rules: U.S. Supreme Court, Federal Courts of Appeals, Court of Claims and other courts.

This source contains judicial cases from the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Oklahoma.

This source is a complete restatement of the entire American law as developed by all reported cases by William Mack and Donald J. Kiser. It is indexed by the West Key system and gives references to numerous sources.

This source contains cases that have been tried in the U.S. court of appeals and the U.S. District Courts. 

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This source contains judicial opinions reported in chronological order for Oklahoma that are also reported  in the Pacific Reporter.  . It is indexed by the West Key number system.

This source contains judicial opinions reported in The Pacific Reporter for Oklahoma. It is indexed by the West Key number system.

This source contains judicial decisions of the lower federal courts.

Published since 1982, this biweekly reporter contains the full text of decisions reached in the U.S. Supreme Court , U.S. Courts of Appeals, U.S. District Courts and State Appellate Courts that pertain to education. The cases are from 2 to 4 months before the issue date. Also included in the Reporter are synopses of cases which have been recently reviewed by West Publishing Co. The cases and articles from the Reporter are indexed in ERIC until 1992 and are also indexed in Education Index.

This set allows users to determine the precedent value of case law. This resource is valuable to ascertain if a case was used or cited in other cases.

Contains discussion of Supreme Court Cases having impact on Education in the United States.

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Provides a topic approach to educational law in Oklahoma, using Oklahoma Statutes, court cases, federal laws and regulations.   Past years can be located in the circulating collection.  The most current edition of Schools Laws of Oklahoma can be located on the Internet at http://www.sde.state.ok.us/

Encyclopedic compilation of state and Federal appellate court decisions which affect education. Organized by topics, such as: school athletics, accidents, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and association and student rights. This publication is updated every year. There is a case index, a topic index, an index to recent law review articles on education law topics, and a glossary of legal terms.  The most current year is located in the reference collection and past years can be located in the circulating collection.

This is a reference guide intended for school administrators who need to know the law regarding special education services. It contains chapters on the Individuals with Disabilities Act, Placement, Private School Tuition, School Liability, Discrimination, and more. It contains discussion of important federal and state cases in special education topics. It also has a glossary, and index to recent law review articles on special education topics.

Contains chapters that discuss various aspects of sports law, such as: negligence, school liability, coach liability, referee liability, medical liability, spectator injuries, defamation and invasion of privacy, "no pass, no play" rules, sex discrimination, drug testing, and more. The original book was written in 1990, and there is a supplement in the back which updates it to December 1996. See also (R 344.73099 L41) Law of Professional and Amateur Sports

Designed to meet the layperson's needs for basic legal information. Contains articles on legal principles and concepts, biographies of important people in legal matters, accounts of famous trials, important documents and laws. Supplements are published annually.

This volume is part of the Contemporary Legal Issues Series and contains definitions of legal terms that affect education, such as due process, open meeting laws, hate speech codes, court cases important to education, major legislation, educational associations and organizations and definitions of other terms used in education such as :  busing, mainstreaming, released-time programs, sniff searches, suspension and vouchers.

Teachers and the Law Contains answers to questions about the law as it affects the classroom teacher.

Provides definitions of the words and terms used in the law.

Contains articles on doctrinal concepts of constitutional law, (such as federalism, freedom of speech, age discrimination, the establishment clause), people associated with the development and interpretation of the constitution, articles on all amendments to the constitution, famous court cases, public laws (statutes, treaties, and executive orders) (such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990), plus articles on constitutional history. Each article has a bibliography of other sources that can be used for further information. Also has appendices which have the complete text of the constitution and a glossary of legal terms.

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A modern comprehensive text statement of the entire American law, state and federal. This is an encyclopedia type source with volumes that are indexed by a subject index and is kept up to date by supplements.

Humanities Index
An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the humanities. Coverage begins in 1974 and continues until 1993.

Social Sciences Index
An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the social sciences. Coverage begins in 1974 and continues until 1998.

Art Index
An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the arts. Coverage begins in 1967 and continues until 2002.

This database contains citations to articles that appear in journals in science, technology, social science, business and humanities, and popular culture. With over 16,000 journals indexed, this is one of the largest journal databases in the SE Library's collection. It covers from 1990 to the present, and is updated daily.

The SE Library has subscribed to a new database called Academic Search Premier. This database has been designed specifically for academic institutions and EBSCOHost claims that, it is “the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database.” Indeed, it is larger that the database that it is replacing, Academic Search Elite. It contains full text for nearly 4,550 journals and magazines, whereas Elite has only 2050. It has indexing and abstracting for more than 8,200 titles. It contains full text for many journals back to the 1990’s and for one hundred journals there is full text back to 1975.

Covers 1,600 periodicals from 1994 to the present. Contains records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, and Business Abstracts and other Wilson databases. It is updated weekly. An important feature of this database is that all articles are full text.

SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,918,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 428 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 136 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,785 conference papers." There should be many articles in this database dealing with discrimination issues.

This is a large business database, and indexes over 3000 journals, magazines and newspapers. It would also contain many articles on business law.

This is a database containing journals from criminal justice.

URL: http://www.okhighered.org/

This site contains a history of OSRHE, staff directory of OSRHE, information on the Oklahoma Guaranteed Student Loan Program and the Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant Program. Also listed are job opportunities at OSHRE, plus a higher education directory. The last thing is the full text of the Oklahoma Higher Education Code.

URL: http://www.onenet.net/oklegal/sample.basic.html

You can search the Oklahoma Supreme Court opinions from 1982 to present, the Oklahoma Court of Appeals decisions from 1982 to the present, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals opinions from 1995 to present, and the Oklahoma Attorney General opinions from 1948 to the present.

URL: http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/

Contains U.S. Supreme court cases from May of 1990 to the present.

URL: http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/

URL: http://www.usscplus.com

Contains the full text of Supreme Court decisions from 1953 to 1997, and full text of 400 historically important cases from 1793 to 1973.

URL: http://www.law.emory.edu/index.php?id=2997/

This site is located at Emory University and contains links to all eleven of the U.S. Federal Appellate Courts. and contains the full text of the cases from 1994 to the present.

URL: http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/info_court_web_sites.html

"This page provides judicial branch links for each state, focusing on the administrative office of the courts, the court of last resort, any intermediate appellate courts, and each trial court level. To simplify finding court addresses, we have created new pages for some state trial courts to provide comprehensive contact information and will gradually add links to specific district or courthouse Web sites on those pages rather than on this index page. We welcome the submission of links to court websites."

URL: http://www.ilrg.com/caselaw

This is a part of the Internet Legal Resource Guide. It contains a summary and links to every Supreme Court decisions database on the Internet, plus all known links to U.S. Federal Circuit Courts, and links to many state Supreme Courts, and some state appellate courts. Many of these federal and state courts are searchable by keyword or citation.

URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Education

This site is at Cornell Law School, and it is now called Wex, and it has links to recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals decisions relating to education. It also has state statutes dealing with education.

URL: http://www.loislawschool.com/

How to Get Legal Information From LoisLaw at: http://www.se.edu/lib/crimlaw39.htm