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1. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






2. Supra

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3. Primary authority






4. Sometimes called adjective law - it prescribes the manner in which substantive laws must be enforced.






5. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






6. Extensive selected annotations






7. State and federal






8. Legal document that carries the most weight and embodies the government's authority to exist and serves as an outline for the exercise of governmental powers.






9. An explanatory note






10. Is used in legal memoranda and briefs to indicate the full citation for the case follows at a later point in the memorandum or brief






11. 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)






12. Summarize statute topics






13. American Digest System






14. Case reports - published by West - that divides the United States into seven geographical regions and reports the decisions of the highest appellate court of each state within that region.






15. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






16. U.S. Const. amend. XIV - A 1.






17. Explanation of the subject






18. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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19. Compilations of cases and historical matter dealing with various aspects of a code of statute - which contain short summaries of other cases - both for and against






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






21. The publication where rules and regulations of administrative agencies are codified






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






23. Typical case reporter






24. Decennial Digest






25. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






26. Secondary authority that is leading annotated law reporter published by Lawyers Co-op. Distinguishing feature not the cases that it reports - but the extensive editorial commentary that follows each reported case






27. Law that establishes and defines the basic rights and duties that govern a society. It consists of constitutions - legislative enactments - common law - and certain executive actions.






28. Ratio decidendi- court's reasoning or basis for it sholding and decision






29. An unofficial publication of law that uses the key number system to aid the researcher






30. When a federal case first decides a case. a single opinion of the court issued without headnotes and without indexing.






31. Secondary authority






32. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which disagrees with both the result and the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one






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






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






35. Statutory law






36. The cited authority states a proposition that is different from the proposition stated by the writer - but the proposition stated in the cited authority is sufficiently similar to lend support to the writer's proposition






37. A proposed legislative measure






38. Pleadings - transcript of trial testimony - and exhibits






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






40. Federal Cases






41. Connecticut - Delaware - D.C. (Court of Appeals) - Maine - Maryland - New Hampshire - New Jersey - Pennsylvania - Rhode Island - and Vermont






42. Presidential proclamations






43. As session laws






44. The cited authority presents helpful background information about the proposition






45. 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






46. Ballantine's Law Dictionary 41 (3rd ed. 1969).






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






48. Digests






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

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50. U.S.