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1. The cited authority directly supports the proposition; other authorities also could have been cited but were not cited to avoid duplication






2. Result or disposition of the case






3. Statutes at Large






4. F.Supp






5. 1. number of the Code title 2. abbreviation for the United States Code 3. section symbol - followed by the number of the Code section; and 4. date of the Code volume in which the most recent version of the section can be found






6. Name of the appellant






7. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






8. Supplement volumes or pocket part supplements should be used






9. Secondary authority






10. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which agrees with the result reached by the majority but disagrees with the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one.






11. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






12. Published by the American Law Institute - it collects and distills the primary - general rules in a given legal topic area- what the rules are and sometime what the committee believes they ought to be. It also provides explanations of the rules and g






13. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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14. Brief summary of a legal rule discussed in the opinion; headnotes are numbered. key numbers are used in West publications






15. Advance sheet published weekly by the Bureau of National Affairs






16. Official case reporter for the U.S. Supreme Court






17. Case law






18. Statutory law






19. Summarize statute topics






20. American Digest System






21. L.Ed or L.Ed.2d

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22. 1. name of the act 2. abbreviation of Public Law and the public law number 3. volume number of the Statutes at Large 4. abbreviation for Statutes at Large 5. page number where the statutes begins; and 6. the year when the statute was passed as law.






23. Unofficial U.S. Supreme Court case reporter published by West






24. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






25. Persuasive legal authority that consists of law from other jurisdictions - legal encyclopedias - American Law Reports - restatements of law - dictionaries - treatises and periodicals






26. Arkansas - Kentucky - Missouri - Tennessee - Texas - and Indian Territories






27. Products of West Legal Studies






28. Summarized statute topics






29. A bill that has been adopted into a law but has been printed singly rather than as a part of a group of laws






30. Legal publisher noted for its extensive use of annotations.






31. Published by Lawyers Co-op






32. A single-volume text written by a legal scholar in a given topic area






33. Govern the form and procedure for appeals from the U.S. District Court to the Court of Appeals within the federal system






34. United States Reports






35. Legal dictionary - treatise - restatement of law - encyclopedia






36. 1. U.S. Constitutional provision and amendments 2. Federal statutes 3. Federal procedural rules 4. Federal cases (U.S. - F.3d - the F.Supp.) 5. State cases (official reporter - then regional reporter) 6. Federal administrative rules and regulations 7






37. Illinois - Indiana - Massachusetts - New York - and Ohio






38. Anew - from the beginning - the case is tried in the appellate court as if it had not been tried previously - and witness are allowed to testify.






39. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






40. A publication of law that is not specifically authorized or sanctioned by an official body but - rather - is compiled by a private publisher i.e. West Publishing Company (West) and Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company (Lawyers Co-op)






41. An explanatory note






42. Unofficial U.S. Supreme Court case reporter published by Lawyers Co-op

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43. What federal session laws are published in






44. Shepard's Citators






45. Often provide case citations upon which a definition is based. A couple of them are Black's Law _____ and Ballantine's Law _____.






46. A proposed legislative measure






47. Decennial Digest






48. 1. case name 2. case reporter in which the case is published (include volume number - abbreviation of case reporter - and page where case begins); 3. identity of court issuing the opinion 4. year in which the decision was issued; and 5. subsequent hi






49. The subsequent history of the cited case must be included in the citation






50. Alaska - Arizona - California - Colorado - Hawaii - Idaho - Kansas - Montana - Nevada - New Mexico - Oklahoma - Oregon - Utah - Washington - and Wyoming