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Legal Research

Subject : law
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1. Products of West Legal Studies






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






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






4. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






5. Illinois - Indiana - Massachusetts - New York - and Ohio






6. 1. number of the Code title 2. abbreviation for the United States Code 3. section symbol - followed by the number of the Code section; and 4. date of the Code volume in which the most recent version of the section can be found






7. 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.






8. Primary authority






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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






18. 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.






19. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






20. But they are required for home state cases when parallel citations exist






21. Extensive selected annotations






22. The West key number system






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






24. An explanatory note






25. 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






26. Georgia - North Carolina - South Carolina - Virginia - and West Virginia






27. An index






28. Slip opinions collected and published periodically






29. 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.






30. Rule of law for which the case is cited as precedent; it is the legal effect of the facts of the case






31. A proposed legislative measure






32. Summarized statute topics






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






34. 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.






35. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






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






37. Shepard's Citations is used






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






39. Shepard's Citators






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






41. 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.






42. 15 U.S.C. A 7 (1988).






43. Restatement (of law)






44. Name of the appellant






45. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






46. 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






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






48. Encyclopedia






49. Typical case reporter






50. United States Reports