I'm a comic researcher, seeking court records from 1947 in the United States related to Superman's copyright case. While there's a Wikipedia entry on this case, I couldn't locate the crucial court judgment in legal databases. I found records from approximately 30 years later that reference the 1947 case, but how can I access the original records?
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You have a case name and number: Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster v. National Comics Publications Inc. et al., No. 1099-1947 (N.Y.Sup.Ct. 1947).
That indicates that you should look for a New York Supreme Court (which is the general NY trial court) judgment. The case is not digitally archived and therefore not accessible at the case search - the system only goes back to 2003.
So you need to go to the physical archive itself, either to request the clerk to pull a copy of that exact case for a fee, or to inspect the case file during business hours - if the file can be located and still exists. The rules for retrieving such a judgment can be found at NYCourts.gov.
