Pritzker Legal Research Center: LGBTQI+ Clinic Research Guide: Sources of Law

Statutes

The best way to find relevant primary law is to review a secondary source (such as an ALR article, treatise, or nonprofit publications) that will include specific citations. Searching for statutes and regulations can be tricky because often relevant subsections appear in different chapters of the statutes and regulations. In addition to keyword searching, be sure to check the popular name table, tables of contents, indexes, and related section suggestions. To find a popular name table in Westlaw, type "popular name table" in the search bar but don't run the search. It should suggest both the United States Code Annotated Popular Name Table as well as popular name tables for individual states.

Federal

U.S. Constitution - Amendment 14 - Equal Protection
Lexis
Americans with Disabilities Act
Westlaw
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (as amended)
Westlaw. Title VII is codified at 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.
Civil Rights Law – Protection of Rights: Housing Discrimination
Lexis. 50 state statutory survey.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is codified in 29 U.S.C. § 794.
Chapter 7 Federal, State and Local Nondiscrimination Laws
West Study Aids. Ch. 7 from Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and the Law in a Nutshell

State

CHLP’s Find the Laws in Your State
Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP). Select your state from the map for HIV criminalization laws and policies.
IL Human Rights Act
Westlaw. 775 I.L.C.S. 5

Executive Orders

Federal

Federal Register Search
Select "Presidential Document" then "Executive Order" before running your search.
GovInfo Search of U.S. Presidential Executive Orders
Add your search terms but keep the syntax to limit to executive orders from the Compilation of Presidential Documents in the search: cpdcategory:"executive orders". GovInfo supports use of the asterisk (*) as a wildcard operator, i.e. to look for variations of root words. See their help guide on "Search Operators" for the correct syntax and examples: https://www.govinfo.gov/help/search-operators

State

State Executive Orders Search
Westlaw
State Executive Orders
Lexis. Link loads the content search for all state jurisdictions for the following search: heading(executive order) or cite(exec! order or e.o. or eo). To be thorough you'll need to use the "Search Within" feature to search within the different content types from which the executive orders in Lexis are pulling from, i.e. Administrative Materials, Statutes and Legislation.

Cases

Administrative Law (Agency Decisions & Guidance)

Title IX Legal Manual.
U.S. Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Division Title IX Legal Manual.
IL Dept. of Human Rights
The Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR) administers the Illinois Human Rights Act. The IL Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in Illinois with respect to employment, financial credit, public accommodations, housing and sexual harassment, as well as sexual harassment in education.