Downloadable Opinions Courtesy of the U.S. Courts of Appeals

Last November I described how to search for opinions that address circuit splits using LexisNexis, Westlaw, and Google Scholar. While the commercial vendors offer powerful search features and many other bells and whistles that make conducting legal research much easier than it used to be, there is a lag time between the date on which an opinion is released and the date on which it appears on Lexis/Westlaw/Google. 

If time is of the essence or you just don't like to wait, each circuit offers a menu of options to help you stay on top of the latest decisions:

1st Circuit

• Recent Opinions: RSS Feed
• Search Opinions

2d Circuit

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• Recent Summary Orders: RSS Feed
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• Day Calendar Notice: RSS Feed
• Search Opinions and Summary Orders

3d Circuit

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• Recent Precedential Opinions (Last 30 Days)
• Recent Nonprecedential Opinions (Last 30 Days)
• Opinions Archives (Villanova University Law School)
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4th Circuit

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• Daily Opinions
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5th Circuit

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• All Opinions Detail Feed: RSS Feed
• Published Opinions Detail Feed: RSS Feed
•  Opinion Page

6th Circuit

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7th Circuit

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8th Circuit

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• "One Stop Search"

9th Circuit

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• Cases of Interest: RSS Feed
• Published Opinions
• Memoranda (Unpublished Opinions)

10th Circuit

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11th Circuit

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• Search Published Opinions
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• Monthly Published Opinion Log

D.C. Circuit

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Comments

[Joe Miller]

Why did you leave out the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit?
Its main website is
http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/
And its opinions page is
http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/search/report.html