Government Resources

The California Courts of Appeal are divided into six appellate districts, based on geography. Some of the appellate districts are further divided into Divisions.

Find published and unpublished opinions of the California Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeal.

The official website of the California Judicial Branch. Find courts, search cases, find forms and rules, read opinions, and view oral arguments of the California Supreme Court.

The California Official Reports website is intended to provide public access to California´s precedential appellate decisions.

California has 58 trial courts, one in each county. In trial (superior) courts, a judge and sometimes a jury hears witnesses' testimony and other evidence and decides cases by applying the relevant law to the relevant facts. The California courts serve the state's population of more than 39 million people.

As the state's highest court, its decisions are binding on all other California state courts.

FindLaw maintains a searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1760. It also has information about the U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, and state codes and caselaw. It also provides access to decisions from state supreme courts and state appellate courts.

The Guide to Law Online is an annotated collection of links to free online legal materials and pertinent resources in the Library of Congress catalog.

Justia provides free access to federal and state court decisions, codes, and regulations as well as recent dockets and selected case filings from the US federal district and appellate courts.

The Commission on Judicial Performance, established in 1960, is the independent state agency responsible for investigating complaints of judicial misconduct and judicial incapacity and for disciplining judges, pursuant to article VI, section 18 of the California Constitution.

Westlaw is an online legal research database that provides access to case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources. You will need to log in with your Warrior ID to access this database.