Sign in as a guest to search civil court cases and electronically filed documents in Supreme Court, Court of Claims, and Surrogate's Court in all of New York State.
Word document describing the details of what you might retrieve from a criminal history record search. From the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Includes every defendant sentenced to NYS prison since the early 1970’s, except youthful offenders and those who have had their convictions set aside by a court.
Business, legal, news, and medical database with over 12,000 sources and full-text materials. Both English and non-English language newspapers, various disciplinary journals, magazines, news blogs, and other publications are available.
NexisUni is a database that can be accessed through the Research Center by current students.
Has selected state cases. See "Look up a Legal Case" on the bottom of the search page. Search using party name or index #.
Federal: Civil, Criminal & Administrative
PACER : Public Access to Court Electronic Records
PACER allows you to search for federal court records including case dockets in all district, bankruptcy, and appellate courts. Many documents from PACER are available through RECAP for free. You should install the RECAP Chrome Extension while using PACER to contribute to the RECAP archive. PACER logins are available by appointment for the J School community to use in the research center or remotely.
RECAP: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/
*This is a secure login. Please sign up for an appointment here: https://journalism-cuny.libcal.com/reserve/secureloginRC
**This resource is only for the J-School students/staff/faculty. Visitors do not have access: even when on campus
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a data gathering, data research, and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University. The data provided is collected from the federal government, mostly under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and is made available to the public. When off campus you will need to log in using the credentials on the Secure Logins page.