Court opinions are published in law reporters. Thomson West has published its series of regional reporters covering state supreme and appellate courts for more than a century. It also publishes the Federal Reporter, covering the US Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court of the United States has its opinions published in the Thomson West Supreme Court Reporter and the official, government published United States Reports.
Finding these can be a trick, as they aren't exactly bestsellers, and run into thousands of volumes (the Pacific Reporter is currently in its 3d series, each series including almost a thousand volumes of around a thousand pages each). Any law library will have them, but most public libraries won't. You're pretty much going to have to go to either a courthouse, which may have what you're looking for but it may not, or an academic institution.
These are also available online, but it'll cost you. Both LexisNexis and West have online sites you can use to electronically search court opinions, but again, these are subscription only.
More recently, a few courts have started making their opinions available for free online. You're going to have to check the individual pages of the courts you're interested in, and the search functions are probably not going to be particularly good, but it is an option.
2006-11-16 01:32:07
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answered by Ryan D 4
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If you're near a university/college, the bookstore has tons of books on unprecedented cases and updated laws tried in all courts.
2006-11-16 01:28:35
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answered by chocolate-drop 5
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U have to search the web of the GOVERNMENT relating to the Cases and their Judgements because based on that lot of action is taking place
2006-11-16 01:33:34
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answered by Ramasubramanian 6
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