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Legal Research

Subject : law
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1. Explanation of the subject






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






3. Presidential proclamations






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






5. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






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






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






8. Federal Rules Decisions






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






10. Result or disposition of the case






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






12. Published by West






13. Opinion of the entire court (all judges who heard the case) - as opposed to an opinion written by a specific judge






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






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






16. Obiter dictum- comments of the court about minor issues or concerns other than the specific holding - rationale - and decision. Never cited as precedent






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






18. 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






19. Decennial Digest






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






21. W. Weitz - Nocturnal Crimes - 20 Brooklyn L. Rev. 180 (1992).






22. 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






23. U.S.






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






25. The court's ruling or disposition of the case (whether affirmed - reversed - remanded - or dismissed)






26. U.S. Const. art. IV - A 2 - cl. 3.






27. 15 U.S.C. A 7 (1988).






28. Case law - or judicial opinion - that articulates common law principles






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






30. 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






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






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






33. Supra

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34. Advance sheet published by Commerce Clearing House






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






36. 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






37. 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.






38. Statutes at Large






39. 22 C.F.R. A 145.6 (1992)






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






41. Precedent






42. Compiled chronologically






43. Federal Reporter - Third Series (F.3d) - Federal Reporter - Second Series (F.2d) - Federal Reporter (F.) - Federal Cases (F. Cas.) - all unofficial and all published by West






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






46. 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






47. Summarized statute topics






48. State and federal






49. F.Supp






50. Summarize judicial opinions