Legal Research Links by Subject
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Adoption
Agriculture
- Agriculture
Statistics, most in spreadsheet format. Access by title,
subject, agency, or keyword.
- Farm
Bill sites indexed by NCARLI.
- AgEBB is an electronic
network among farmers, University Extension Specialists and
University faculty.
- AgEcon Search has papers
from various institutions and conferences.
- Agricultural
Law Research Guide.
- Agricultural Statistics
Service (USDA) offers publications, graphics, historic
data.
- American Agricultural Law
Association focuses on the legal needs of the agricultural
community.
- Center for Rural Affairs site
offers a monthly newletter, information on small business loans,
and highlights of legislative action.
- Farmer's Legal Action
Group, Inc. includes news releases, special projects,
publications, and related links.
- Kansas Department
of Agriculture.
- State
Statutes re: Agriculture links to various states' statutes.
Americans with Disabilities
Bankruptcy
Bar Exams/Review
Business
- Hoover's OnLine has
company capsules, stock quotes, other business information.
- Kiplinger Online provides
business forecasts and personal finance advice, news of the
day, business letters, and Kiplingers Magazine.
- CorporateInformation for
researching companies around the world.
- Research & Reference
Gateway: Research Guides: Business.
- Small Business Knowledge Base offers
free guides, worksheets, and tools for managing a small business.
- Quitamhelp.com is a
forum for those interested int the qui tam whistleblower law
and practice.
- Business.gov related
to government contracting/procurement and other aspects of doing
business in the US.
- Uniform
Commercial Code Research Guide.
- United States Small Business Administration site
includes information on starting a business, financing a business,
different business opportunities, and the laws and regulations
governing small businesses.
Case Law
Child Abduction
- Child Alert Foundation is
a non profit organization that assists police, 911 and other
law enforcement agencies notify the public of a child abduction.
- National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children serves as a focal point in providing
assistance to parents, children, law enforcement, schools,
and the community in recovering missing children and raising
public awareness about ways to help prevent child abduction,
molestation, and sexual exploitation.
- North America
Missing Children Association (NAMCA) is a nationally
registered not-for-profit organization whose purpose is
to help locate missing, lost or abducted children and adults.
- Parental
Abduction legal information provided by the American
Bar Association.
- International
Child Abduction information from the State Department.
- Hilton House site
carries information concerning The Convention on the Civil Aspects
of International Child Abduction (The Convention), the International
Child Abduction Remidies Act (ICARA) and information about the
Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA) and its Federal
Counterpart 28 U.S.C. 1738A.
Child Support
Civil Rights/Personal Freedoms
Consumer Information
- Consumer Law articles,
Internet resource links, brochures, and more dealing with consumer
information and law.
- Consumer World links
to over 1400 consumer resources on the Internet.
- Currency -
FAQs Treasury Department site answers commonly asked
questions about US currency: amount printed, how portraits
are selected, redeeming notes, etc.
- Fraud Bureau is a
free service established to alert online consumers and investors
of prior complaints relating to online vendors and to provide
consumers, investors and users with information and news on
how to safely surf, shop and invest on the net.
- FTC's Top
10 Consumer Fraud Complaints of 2006 report has recently
been released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
- National Fraud Information Center is
a project of the National Consumers League; helps consumers
report fraud and offers helpful advice on how to avoid becoming
a victim.
- Internet
Hoax Busters describes many of the hoax warnings that are
found on the Internet today, addresses some of the history
of hoaxes on the Internet, how to identify a new hoax warning,
how to identify a validated warning and what to do if you
think a message is a hoax.
- Uniform
Commercial Code Research Guide.
- Internet Crime Complaint Center, an FBI & National White Collar Crime Center partnership.
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