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Certified Legal Research

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1. 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






2. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






3. Remark - note - or commentary intended to illustrate or explain.






4. 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.






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






6. While indexes summarize statute topics






7. When state government is a party - such as the plaintiff in a criminal case - it is identified in the case name simply as "State" (State v. Jones).






8. 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






9. United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition






10. Federal Reporter - Third Series (F.3d) - Federal Reporter - Second Series (F.2d) - Federal Reporter (F.) - Federal Cases (F. Cas.) - all unofficial and all published by West






11. Year the Court began using official reporters and its current numbering system






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






13. Identified as "United States" in the case name (do not abbreviate as U.S. or as U.S.A.)






14. Both legal and nonlegal - may proide persuasive authority in a given case and should not be overlooked as a research source.






15. Extensive selected annotations that follows each reported case.






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






17. Supplement volumes or pocket part supplements should be used






18. United States Reports






19. Legal encyclopedia published by West






20. The Federal Reporter






21. Which reports only federal cases and is supplemented by an individual - cumulative pocket found at the back of each volume.






22. Is used to check the current status of a case


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






24. Slip opinions collected and published periodically in a softbound or looseleaf format (in advance of the next bound volume of the case reporter series).






25. Official publication






26. S. Ct.






27. Both state and federal.






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






29. A secondary authority which is not the law itself but is - rather - a persuasive presentation by legal scholars of what the law is or what it should be in a particular topic






30. USOC - also known as the Blue Book - is universally accepted authority on legal citations - which is published jointly by the law reviews of Columbia - Harvard - the University of Pennsylvania - and Yale Law Schools.






31. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






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






33. Anew - from the beginning - the case is tried in the appellate court as if it had not been tried previously - and witness are allowed to testify.






34. Official publication






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






36. 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)






37. Fed. R. Evid. 401






38. To indicate the full citation for the case follows at a later point in the memorandum or brief.


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






40. 1. full name of author; 2. the word "Annotation"; 3. title of annotation (underscored or in italics); 4. volume number of A.L.R. series 5. abbreviation for Annotated Law Reports 6. page number where the annotation begins; 7. year of publication






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






42. Researcher checks red advance sheets first (most recent); yellow paperback; and finally - the bound volume(s).


43. Fed. R. Crim. P. 42






44. Consists of articles and various amendments






45. 1. volume number of Fed. Reg.2. abbreviation for Federal Register 3. page number where administrative rule begins; and 4. year of publication






46. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






47. 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.






48. Statutory Supplements






49. Surnames are used for individual parties (Watson v. Jones).






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