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Legal Research

Subject : law
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1. Presidential proclamations






2. Summarized statute topics






3. L.Ed or L.Ed.2d

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4. American Digest System






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






6. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






7. 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






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






9. Published by Lawyers Co-op






10. Secondary authority






11. Encyclopedia






12. Headnotes in the American Digest System are cataloged in this manner: Thing - Action - Relief - Parties






13. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






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






15. State and federal






16. 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.






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






18. Federal Supplement (F. Supp.) - Federal Reporter - Second Series (F.2d) - Federal Reporter (F.) - Federal Cases (F. Cas.) - all unofficial and all published by West






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






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






21. Summarize judicial opinions






22. A syllabus of the court






23. Caption - date of decision - parallel citations - headnote or syllabus - statement of facts - opinion - holding - rationale - dicta - decision






24. 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






25. 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






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






27. Shepard's Citations - statute edition






28. Summarize statute topics






29. Slip opinions collected and published periodically






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






31. What federal session laws are published in






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






33. At the close of each legislative term






34. Products of West Legal Studies






35. Shepard's Citations is used






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






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






38. An index






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






40. Federal Cases






41. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






42. Selected decisions






43. The Federal Reporter






44. Official publication






45. Explanation of the subject






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






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






48. 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






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






50. 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