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1. Selected decisions






2. American Digest System






3. When an official body authorizes and directs the collection and publication of law






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






6. What federal session laws are published in






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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






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






13. 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






14. Name of the appellant






15. 1. full name of author; 2. the word 'Annotation'; 3. title of annotation (underscored or in italics); 4. volume number of A.L.R. series 5. abbreviation for Annotated Law Reports 6. page number where the annotation begins; 7. year of publication






16. Often provide case citations upon which a definition is based. A couple of them are Black's Law _____ and Ballantine's Law _____.






17. Products of West Legal Studies






18. Statutes at Large






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






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






21. L.Ed or L.Ed.2d

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22. Extensive selected annotations






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






24. 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






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






26. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






27. 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






28. Govern the way in which a defendant is charged - tried - and sentenced for a federal crime






29. The entire court participates rather than the permissible quorum. This does not mean that the entire court agrees on the outcome - however.






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






31. Unofficial U.S. Supreme Court case reporter published by West






32. A syllabus of the court






33. Case law






34. Presidential proclamations






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

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36. Congressional Record will provide the most direct access to the text of the statute






37. Arkansas - Kentucky - Missouri - Tennessee - Texas - and Indian Territories






38. What federal session laws are codified and published in






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






40. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which agrees with the result reached by the majority but disagrees with the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one.






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






42. A proposed legislative measure






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






44. 88 C.J.S. Trial A 107 (1980).






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






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






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






48. Encyclopedia






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






50. 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