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1. Summarize judicial opinions






2. Published by West






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






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






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






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






7. An explanatory note






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






9. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






10. Selected decisions






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






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






13. Precedent






14. A syllabus of the court






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






16. Supplement volumes or pocket part supplements should be used






17. 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.






18. 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






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






20. A proposed legislative measure






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






22. Slip opinions collected and published periodically






23. U.S. Const. amend. XIV - A 1.






24. Compiled chronologically






25. Mandatory legal authority that consists of constitutions - statutes - case law - rules of procedure - rules of evidence - administrative rules - court rules - executive orders






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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.






30. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






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






32. Decennial Digest






33. 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






34. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






35. 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






36. Published by Lawyers Co-op






37. Presidential proclamations






38. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






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






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






41. 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






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






43. Explanation of the subject






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






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






46. Federal Cases






47. Primary authority






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






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






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