Resources

Links to Legal & Education Sites of Interest

California Law:

California Code of Regulations

Judicial Council Forms

Law Reviews

Legislative information

  This site allows a search of bills by bill number, keyword or author and permits daily update requests.

Local Rules of Court

  You can go to the sites for individual Superior Courts by starting here:
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/trialcourts/
Most of these sites have the local rules on line.

Rules of Court

Rules of Professional Conduct

Search cases decided in the last 60 days

  Cases You can search cases decided in the last 60 days at
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/

Searchable codes

  Codes Searchable codes are found at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html

Community College:

California Community College Chancellor's Office

Education Law Organization:

Association of California School Administrators

California Association of School Psychologists

California Association of Supervisors of Child Welfare and Attendance

California Coalition for Adequate School Housing

California School Board Assn. Education Legal Alliance

California School Boards Assn

Community College League of California

Council of School Attorneys

National Clearinghouse for Education Facilities

School Services of California

Facilities and Construction Organization:

American Society of Appraisers

California Council of the American Institute of Architects

Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors of California

Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors of California

The Appraisal Institute

Federal Law:

9th Circuit Cases

C.F.R.

Supreme Court

  From 1893.

U.S. Code

General Education Law:

California Ed Law Report

Charter Schools

  This is a link to the Charter Schools Development Center of the Institute for Education Reform. The site provides the text for all charter school laws and many other useful tools for a charter school attorney.

Education Codes and Cases

  This site includes links to 20 U.S.C. (education), IDEA, 34 CFR (education), recent federal decisions on education, the California Education Code, etc

Education Legislation

  This is the Association of California School Administrators site, which tracks legislation of importance and has links to several other legislative sites. The page linked provides a list and summary of bills of interest to schools.

HG Education Law

LRP/Education Administration Online

National School Boards Association

Government Agencies:

American Bar Association

  The site includes a legal resources guide, as well as general info about the ABA.

Cal Dept of Education

California Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors

California Department of General Services

  Division of the State Architect.

California Department of Insurance

California Department of Pesticide Regulation

  This is the California Department of Pesticide Regulation School IPM ("Integrated Pest Management Program")

California Environmental Resources Evaluation System

California State Contractors State License Board

CDE's School District Organization Handbook

Department of Toxic Substances Control

Division of State Architect

Equal Employment Opportunities Commission

Federal Dept of Education

  This site permits access to hundreds of resources, like FREE (federal resources for education), ERIC digests, parent publications, EROD directory (education resources online directory - state and technical assistance directories).

Office of Planning and Research - State Clearinghouse

Office of Public School Construction

State Bar

  The site includes the Rules of Professional Conduct, member records, section information, etc.

Superior Courts

Misc. Reference Tools:

Four11

  This is a white pages directory of the entire country. For a business directory, try http://yp.gte.com

Legal Ethics information

  This site is most useful from the "Site Index" portion, where it is easy to reference links to relevant ethics information, such as on-line California ethics decisions.

Martindale-Hubbell

Public School Directory

  Just like our school phone directories, but easier to use.

Recruiting Teachers

  A new site to help school districts find qualified teachers.

SEC Filings and info

  This is the EDGAR database of corporate information, including SEC filings of most companies.

Webster's Dictionary On-Line

Municipal Law:

City Web Sites

  This sites has links to California cities on the web.

League of California Cities

  The site contains links to city sites, legislative info, meeting info, etc.

Municipal Codes

  The Seattle Public Library puts the codes for many of California. s cities on-line. For another source of municipal codes, try http://www.municode.com/
or http://www.amlegal.com/alpeg004.htm

Other Circuit Courts:

Central District of CA

Eastern District of CA

Legislative info

  This site permits review of house and senate votes, bill texts, the congressional record and scheduling.

Search Engines/Starting Points:

Findlaw

Law Research Engine

Law Runner

Lawcrawler

Special Education Law:

Cal. Dept. of Ed. Special Education information

  This site has a nice "laws and regulations" section.

Federal Resource Center for Special Ed

  This good site has links to information about each disability defined under the IDEA, definitions and technical assistance links and information.

Learning Disabilities Online

  This site contains in depth information on many types of learning disabilities. Experts, resource lists, FAQ's, etc.

Special Education Settlement Packet

The Special Ed Advocate

  For a similar site, see http://www.copaa.net/ the site for the Council of Concerned Parent Attorneys and Advocates.

University Legal Sites:

Cornell University

Emory University

Georgetown University

Stetson University

Villanova University

Washburn University


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