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Certified Legal Research

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1. Contain a general commentary on or explanation of the subject.






2. WESTLAW - West Publishing Company; and LEXIS - Mead Data Corporation.






3. 88 C.J.S. Trial






4. The Federal Reporter






5. Is the primary finding tool for statutory law - either state or federal.






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






7. Anew on the record - the appellate court must base its decision on the record (no new testimony can be received) but may reach an independent factual finding if the facts from the trial court are "clearly erroneous" based on the record as a whole






8. Use index to find statute section; read the statutory section; and check supplements for status.






9. Is an official publication that includes all laws enacted by Congress.






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






11. United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition






12. Consists of articles and various amendments






13. Official publication






14. A publication of law that is not specifically authorized or sanctioned by an official body but - rather - is compiled by a private publisher i.e. West Publishing Company (West) and Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company (Lawyers Co-op)






15. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






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






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






18. The Statutes at Large.






19. Supplemented by the A.L.R.2d Later Case Service - which is kept current with a semi-annual supplement pamphlet.






20. Supplemented by the A.L.R. Blue Book of Supplemental Decisions - which is kept current with a semi-annual supplement pamphlet.






21. U.S.






22. L. Ed or L. Ed. 2d

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23. Case law - or judicial opinion - that articulates common law principles






24. Ratio decidendi- court's reasoning or basis for its holding and decision






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






26. Official publication






27. Used to find annotations on a particular topic which covers A.L.R.3d and A.L.R.4th and the series comes in five parts. Can check the Historicdal Table at the back of A.L.R. Index to find ouit whether an A.L.R. series annotation has been superseded (r






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






29. United States Code (U.S.C.)






30. Federal Rules Decisions






31. Supplemented by an individual - cumulative pocket part found at the back of each volume in the series.






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






33. Only those state appellate court cases which are significant (indicates a change in the law or a new trend in legal thinking).






34. Compiled by topic






35. To indicate that the full citation for the case was given previously.

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36. Sometimes called a hornbook - is a single-volume text written by a legal scholar in a given topic area






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






38. U.S. Const. art. IV -






39. For a particular reporter or a particular group of reporters.






40. 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.






41. Devoted to a table of cases and a descriptive word index.






42. 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






43. There are 3 case reporters for the U.S. Supreme Court - United States Reports (U.S.) Official - Supreme Court Reporter (S.Ct.) Unofficial - United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition (L.Ed. or L.Ed.2d) Unofficial






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






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






46. Opinion of the entire court (all judges who heard the case) - as opposed to an opinion written by a specific judge






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






48. West key number system






49. The cited authority presents helpful background information about the proposition






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