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






2. The West key number system






3. Summarized statute topics






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






5. American Digest System






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






10. United States Reports






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






12. Case law






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






14. The cited authority contradicts the proposition stated in the memorandum






15. 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






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






17. A syllabus of the court






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






19. 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






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






21. Products of West Legal Studies






22. The date upon which the decision was rendered






23. Primary authority






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






25. 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.






26. Statutes at Large






27. An explanatory note






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

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29. Statutory law






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






31. Compiled chronologically






32. Compiled by topic






33. Seven






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






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






36. Secondary authority that is leading annotated law reporter published by Lawyers Co-op. Distinguishing feature not the cases that it reports - but the extensive editorial commentary that follows each reported case






37. Shepard's Citators






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






39. Infra

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






41. United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition






42. 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.






43. Name of the appellant






44. L.Ed or L.Ed.2d

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45. Restatement (of law)






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






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






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






49. F.Supp






50. An index