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The State Law Library maintains two archives for the Minnesota Appellate Courts: our Opinions Archive and our Briefs Archive. These archives make it easy to search for Minnesota cases and appellate briefs. In this issue, we're highlighting some of the features of our archives.
Opinions Archive
The Opinions Archive contains Minnesota Supreme Court decisions from May 2, 1996 to the present and Minnesota Court of Appeals decisions from May 7, 1996 to the present. Unpublished Court of Appeals opinions are also included in the archive. New opinions are added each Monday (Court of Appeals) and Wednesday (Supreme Court).
There are a number of ways to search in the archive. If you have a case file number, you can enter that and retrieve all opinions for that case. If you don't have a file number, you can search by party names or by keyword. You can refine your results by selecting a court or by date.
A newer feature allows you to browse opinions by the date they were issued. You can find Supreme Court and Court of Appeals opinions for 2016 to present using the browse feature.
Briefs Archive
Our Briefs Archive is one of the most popular features on our website. We have long maintained an archive of briefs in print for published Minnesota cases, and we are now expanding our digital archive for easier access to this collection. Currently, the archive includes briefs for Minnesota Supreme Court cases resulting in an opinion, and published Minnesota Court of Appeals cases. The briefs archive coverage begins with volume 705 of the Northwestern Reporter 2d (2005). The Briefs Archive supports keyword searching and appellate court docket number searching.
The Technical Services Department is currently working on digitization projects involving older briefs. The library recently acquired a microfiche scanner and a book scanner that allows us to scan, redact, and upload briefs in our collection. If you are looking for a brief in a case that is not in our archive, contact our reference desk to see if we have the brief you need. We can add the brief to our archive, unless we are prevented from doing so by court rule.
 Law Day is right around the corner! This year's theme is "Your Vote, Your Voice, Our Democracy: The 19th Amendment at 100." August 18, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in the United States. To commemorate the occasion, the State Law Library will be hosting the traveling exhibit "100 Years after the 19th Amendment: Their Legacy, and Our Future" from May 1 to May 15. We will also have trivia, giveaways, and a CLE on May 1. We hope you will join us to celebrate Law Day 2020!
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