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






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






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






4. What federal session laws are codified and published in






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






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






7. Supra

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






9. 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






10. Shepard's Citators






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






12. 1. full name of author 2. designation of type of article (required only if written by student); 3. title of article (italicized or underscored) 4. volume number of law review 5. abbreviated name of law review 6. page number where article begins; and






13. 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.






14. Health Care Act - Pub. L. 92-117 - 83 Stat. 624 (1987).






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






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






17. 15 U.S.C. A 7 (1988).






18. A very brief opinion; a cursory opinion; an opinion so abbreviated that it is hardly an opinion at all






19. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






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






21. Result or disposition of the case






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






23. 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






24. Reported selectively






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. Govern the types of evidence that are admissible in criminal and civil trials and - in some situations - the manner in which the evidence can be presented during trial






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






32. Official publication






33. The court's explanatory comments - which can included the holding - the rationale for the holding - and dicta






34. A syllabus of the court






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






36. 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






37. L.Ed or L.Ed.2d

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






39. 88 C.J.S. Trial A 107 (1980).






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






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






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






43. 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






44. What federal session laws are published in






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






46. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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47. Presidential proclamations






48. The date upon which the decision was rendered






49. Iowa - Michigan - Minnesota - Nebraska - North Dakota - South Dakota - and Wisconsin






50. The process used to synthesize legal principles from all prior cases with similar facts and similar issues of law to arrive at a decision in a specific case






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