Sources like your National Security Law textbook + relatively recent books like Counter Terrorism Issues: Case Studies in the Courtroom, Courts at War: Executive Power, Judicial Intervention, and Enemy Combatant Policies Since 9/11 & Human Rights Law and Counter Terrorism Strategies: Dead, Detained or Stateless will highlight key cases. Blogs (example: LawFare: Latest in Courts and Litigation) + scholarly legal articles also will highlight leading cases.
Westlaw databases include:
> [U.S.] Military Law Administrative Decisions & Guidance - includes collection: [U.S.] Department of Defense: Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions - Motions & Decisions
> [U.S.] Military Law Cases - includes "case law from the federal courts and the various courts of the U.S. Armed Services."
Lexis+ provides:
ACLU is a nonprofit organization that describes itself as "the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution." ACLU's lawyers (and other attorneys who assist them) "handle thousands of cases each year on behalf of clients whose rights have been violated." ACLU provides issue-focused pages of resources on topics such as:
Issue-focused pages include information about court cases and links to selected case documents.
Example of an ACLU Press Release discussing a recent ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York:
Federal Judicial Center states it "is the research and education agency of the judicial branch of the United States Government."
Westlaw's Briefs
This database provides many briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and numerous state high courts and intermediate appellate courts. It covers the New York Court of Appeals and the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
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Lexis+ > under Content, click: Briefs, Pleadings & Motions
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs (1832-1978)
In BLS Library's SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (MOML)
Bloomberg Law's Litigation Intelligence Center
Use available templates, such as: Find [case] Docket by Docket Number, Dockets Advanced Search and Find a Court Filing.
Requirement = registration with Bloomberg. BLS students self-register for Bloomberg Law accounts (no access code required). Bloomberg Law will send an email response.
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Courts might provide briefs at court websites.
Attorneys of record in a case might provide briefs through e-mail.
Find e-mail addresses of lawyers through firm websites or through legal directories such as martindale.com.
Westlaw's U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments
This database includes transcripts of oral arguments in cases heard before the U.S. Supreme Court from the 1990-91 term to the present.
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This website provides access to oral arguments in cases heard before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Courts might provide webcasts of oral arguments at court websites.