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The Oyez Project: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database<http://oyez.nwu.edu>. Established by Jerry Goldman, maintained by Tony Becker, Northwestern University. Visited February 11, 2001.

The Oyez Project is primarily an archive of material related to the United States Supreme Court, its justices, and its decisions. In order to take full advantage of its offerings, one needs to have both RealPlayer and QuickTime loaded, the latter for the virtual tour of the Court and the former to hear oral arguments. 1

There are five major categories—"Cases," "Justices," "Virtual Tour of the Court," "About Oyez," and "Greatest Hits" (this last a multimedia CD)—and it is relatively easy to navigate around the site. The results of my three visits, however, were a little disappointing in some instances. 2

The "Cases" category, which I imagine would be a major draw for most users, has several subfields—"On This Date in Supreme Court History," "Search by Title," "Search by Citation," "Search by Subjects," and "Search Oyez Database for a Specific Date." Using the citation category is relatively straightforward, while in the title search one has a choice of "all" of these words or "any" of these words. Once Oyez has identified the case, it ships you into FindLaw, and in the individual cases there are hotlinks to all cited cases. In addition, where tapes of the oral arguments are available, they can be played on a RealPlayer program, and one can also get the transcripts of the oral argument, either with or without the sound track. . . .

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