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Authorised Law Reports

A research guide to understand and discover Authorised Law Reports for Australia, it's states and other jurisdictions.

United States Federal

Court

Title of Reporting Series

Abbreviation of Report Series

Unimelb Online Holdings

Unimelb Print Holdings

Example Citation
(AGLC4 style)

Supreme Court of the United States

United States Reports

US

HeinOnline
(UniMelb staff & student access)
vol 1 (1754) to current

Law Library of Congress
(open access) 
vol 1 (1754) - vol 542 (2003)

Supreme Court Bound Volumes 
(open access)
vol 502 (1991) to current

Not available in hard copy

Tinker v Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 US 503 (1969)

United States Court of Appeals*

Federal Reporter

F; F 2d; F 3d

Westlaw
(UniMelb staff & student access) 

1988-2008

1924-1988

1880-1924

SunTrust Bank v Houghton Mifflin Co, 263 F 3d 1257 (11th Cir, 2001)

United States District Courts*

Federal Supplement

F Supp

Westlaw 
(UniMelb staff & student access)

1988-2006

1932-1988

Abbott v Moore Business Forms Inc/em>, 439 F Supp 643 (D NH, 1977)

*Both these series are technically unofficial reports, but they have become widely accepted as defacto official reports of the intermediate appellate and federal district courts.