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1. U.S.






2. Case law






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






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






5. Summarized statute topics






6. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






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






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






9. Name of the appellant






10. At the close of each legislative term






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






12. Shepard's Citations is used






13. 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.






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






15. Supra

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16. United States Reports






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






18. Shepard's Citators






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. Virginia Koerselman - Comment - Worker's Compensation - 15 Creighton L. Rev. 415 (1981).






28. 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'






29. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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






31. Brief summary of a legal rule discussed in the opinion; headnotes are numbered. key numbers are used in West publications






32. Typical case reporter






33. Seven






34. 88 C.J.S. Trial A 107 (1980).






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






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






37. Avery v. Exxon Co. - 397 U.S. 812 (1991).






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






39. What federal session laws are published in






40. Published by Lawyers Co-op






41. Extensive selected annotations






42. Opinion issued by the majority of the judges of the appellate court; the holding of this opinion may be cited as precedent if all other criteria are met. There is only one in a case






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






44. Statutes at Large






45. Shepard's Citations - statute edition






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






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






48. 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






49. Primary authority






50. Encyclopedia







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