Guide to Free Online Legal & Policy Research

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We designed this guide for consumer health assistance programs to use when helping consumers.  The research tools in this guide may help advocates access legal and policy resources necessary to counsel and represent consumers.  This guide reflects a starting point for a larger resource that we, with the aid of consumer health assistance programs, will continue to compile.  We ask that you send additional web-based resources that advocates and consumers nationwide may use to info@familiesusa.org.

Table of Contents

General

• Federal Law
• The United States Code
• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
• Federal Register
• Federal Legislative Information
• Federal Case Law
• United States Federal Courts
• Other Federal
• United States Constitution
• United States Supreme Court
• State Law
• Cornell Law School's LII State Resources
• State Courts

Topical

• Private Insurance
• U.S. Department of Labor: Employment Benefits Security Administration
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• Secondary Resources
• Governmental Benefits
• Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Social Security
• Federal Employee Health Benefits Program

Other Legal

• Find Law
• Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute
• Health Hippo
• The Law Review Project
• Law Library of Congress Guide to Law Online
• Lexis ONE

Disclaimer: The information and Web sites contained in this guide are provided as a service to State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIPs), and does not constitute legal advice.  HAP makes no guarantees about the accuracy or completeness, of the information contained in the guide, linked Web sites and their associated sites.  Since legal advice must be tailored to the specific circumstances of each case, and laws are continually changing, nothing provided herein should be used as a substitute for the advice of competent counsel.

Note: Links provided in this manual are subject to change by their Web host.  To maintain the usefulness of this document, please notify Families USA of outdated or "dead-end" links by filling out the Web Site Submission Form.