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VictimLaw

Information on victims rights and protections including Constitutional provisions, statutes, court rules, administrative code provisions, case summaries, and attorney general opinions. Includes overviews of the justice system and a glossary.

Access level: Freely available to the public

Violation Tracker

Violation Tracker contains information from official sources on more than 600,000 cases in which companies and large non-profits paid monetary penalties for regulatory violations and other forms of misconduct. Those entities include subsidiaries linked to more than 3,000 parent companies and smaller firms without parents. The parents are both publicly traded and privately held and are both U.S.-headquartered corporations and foreign firms with U.S. operations.

It covers banking, consumer protection, false claims, environmental, wage and hour, safety, discrimination, price-fixing, and other cases resolved by federal regulatory agencies and all parts of the Justice Department since 2000—plus cases from state attorneys general and selected state and local regulatory agencies. They have 628,000 civil and criminal cases from more than 450 agencies with total penalties of $1 trillion. They also cover selected types of class action lawsuits.

Access level: Freely available to the public

Vital Statistics on American Politics

Provides summary data on political behavior such as voter turnout, election results, public opinion, media trends, campaign financing and more. Some charts provide data from the 1790s, but most focus on the 1940s to 2012. Data can be downloaded.

Access level: John Jay