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Subject : law
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1. Case law - or judicial opinion - that articulates common law principles






2. The appellate court reviews the record for prejudicial legal errors committed in the trial court but gives great deference to the findings of fact; factual findings are generally reversed only when they are 'arbitrary or capricious'






3. A system where every topic and subtopic is assigned its own key number






4. 1. volume number of Fed. Reg. 2. abbreviation for Federal Register 3. page number where administrative rule begins; and 4. year of publication






5. F.Supp






6. Court's explanation; includes the holding - rationale - and dicta






7. Products of West Legal Studies






8. Within the federal system - the chronologically published rules and regulations of administrative agencies






9. Reviews the record for errors of law and reaches its own factual finding.






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






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






12. Encyclopedia






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






14. 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






15. Federal Rules Decisions






16. A syllabus of the court






17. Is used in the first 50 volumes of the United States Reports plus all unofficial reporters of Supreme Court decisions






18. United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition






19. Case law






20. But they are required for home state cases when parallel citations exist






21. 1. volume number of encyclopedia 2. abbreviated name of encyclopedia 3. title of article (underscored or in italics) 4. section symbol and section number within the article; 5. specific page within section; and 6. date of publication






22. Type of law consisting of legislative enactments called statutes at federal level and ordinances at state levels.






23. Federal Supplement (F. Supp.) - Federal Reporter - Second Series (F.2d) - Federal Reporter (F.) - Federal Cases (F. Cas.) - all unofficial and all published by West






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






25. Published by Lawyers Co-op






26. Brief summary of facts of case - including its procedural posture






27. Identifies the court issuing the opinion - the parties - and the docket number assigned to the case






28. United States Reports (U.S.) - Supreme Court Reporter (S.Ct.) - United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition (L.Ed. or L.Ed.2d)






29. An index






30. Advance sheet published by Commerce Clearing House






31. Statutory law






32. Name of the appellant






33. Official publication






34. 1. the title (chapter) number 2. abbreviation for the Code of Federal Regulation 3. section number symbol and the section number; and 4. year of publication






35. Selected decisions






36. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






37. Ritches Jr. v. Li - 665 F. Supp. 139 (E.D.Pa. 1991).






38. Caption - date of decision - parallel citations - headnote or syllabus - statement of facts - opinion - holding - rationale - dicta - decision






39. A proposed legislative measure






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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






44. Statutes that are collected into a statutory code that are arranged by topic






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






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






47. As session laws






48. Summarize statute topics






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






50. John Willis - Annotation - Industrial Noise: Promoting an Unsafe Work Enviroment - 76 A.L.R. Fed. 489 (1986).