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Legal Research

Subject : law
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1. Digests






2. Secondary authority






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






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






5. Federal Cases






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






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






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






9. How civil actions are handled - including rules that cover the complaint - summons - answer - discovery process - trial - and post-trial procedures






10. Reported selectively






11. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






12. 88 C.J.S. Trial A 107 (1980).






13. Summarize judicial opinions






14. (primary law - secondary law - encyclopedia - or other) issued by a private - non-government publisher.






15. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






16. The date upon which the decision was rendered






17. A proposed legislative measure






18. Statutory law






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






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






21. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






22. All slip laws enacted during a legislative session that are arranged in chronological order according to date of enactment






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






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






25. Freedom of Information Act - 46 U.S.C. A 89 (1973).






26. Name of the appellant






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

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28. Statutory law






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






30. U.S.






31. Headnotes in the American Digest System are cataloged in this manner: Thing - Action - Relief - Parties






32. Encyclopedias that are arranged alphabetically and contain narrative - expository information on a variety of legal topics. published by West and Lawyers Co-op






33. A prior case within a particular jurisdiction that has 1. facts and legal issues substantially similar to the facts of the case before the court and 2. it was decided by a majority decision of a higher court of that jurisdiction and 3. the case was r






34. S.Ct.






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






36. Decennial Digest






37. Encyclopedia






38. Official publication






39. Case law






40. If the same case is published in another case reporter - the volume and page number of that reporter is shown






41. F.Supp






42. 15 U.S.C. A 7 (1988).






43. Infra

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44. 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.






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






46. United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition






47. The three branches of government that make up each legal system- legislative - judicial and executive






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






49. 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






50. 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.