UCI Law Library

Federal and California Cases

Court	Federal	California
Supreme Court	Supreme Court Reporter (S. Ct.) KF101 and online from Lexis and West. United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers’ Edition (L. Ed.) KF101 and online from Lexis and West. United States Reports. (U.S.) KF101 and online from Hein, Lexis, West, and others. Also see the Supreme Court website for recent slip opinions.	California Reports KFC44 .C3 and online from Lexis and West West's California Reporter KFC45 .W4 and online from Lexis and West California has no state-published official reporter; the official reporter, California Reports, is published on a contract basis by LexisNexis.
Courts of Appeals	West's Federal Reporter KF105 .F4 and online from Lexis and West.	California Appellate Reports KFC48 .A212 and online from Lexis and West West's California Reporter KFC45 .W4 and online from Lexis and West California has no state-published official reporter; the official reporter, California Appellate Reports, is published on a contract basis by LexisNexis.
Trial courts	West's Federal Supplement KF120 .F4 and online from Lexis and West.	Westlaw - CA-Trialorders Official - unauthenticated, online availability varies court-by-court.

Remember specialty reporters, e.g.:

Federal Appendix: West’s reporter for “unreported” opinions, since 2001
West’s Bankruptcy Reporter
United States Tax Court Reports - in print HJ 10 H26312 or online ustaxcourt.gov

Lexis-Nexis began publishing the Official Reports, with "official" headnotes, in 2003. Only official headnotes appear in print. Westlaw has official headnotes through June, 2003. The official digest is not online.
A note about depublished opinions in California: California’s Supreme Court has had the power to depublish Courts of Appeal decisions since 1971. These decisions still bind the parties involved, but cannot be used as precedent. Henke’s California Law Guide § 6.02[3].
Appeals in "limited civil" cases (where $25,000 or less is at issue) and misdemeanors are heard by the appellate divisions of the superior court. See Henke's California Law Guide § 6.01[3]. West's California Reporter, California Appellate Reports Supplement, and other commercial reporters publish opinions from these cases.