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Certified Legal Research

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






2. Fed. R. App. P. 2.






3. Brief summary of a legal rule discussed in the opinion; headnotes are numbered. key numbers are used in West publications






4. Digests






5. Result or disposition of the case






6. Govern the way in which a defendant is charged - tried - and sentenced for a federal crime






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






8. Both state and federal.






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






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






11. Obiter dictum- comments of the court about minor issues or concerns other than the specific holding - rationale - and decision. Never cited as precedent






12. Is a finding tool ONLY - usually compiled by the publisher of the case reporter to which it relates. NEVER cite as legal authority for any purpose.






13. Regardless of how it may have been shown in the lower courts.






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






15. The rules and regulations of federal administrative agencies are cited either to the Code of Federal Regulations (arranged by topic and cited as C.F.R.) or to the Federal Register (arranged chronologically and cited as Fed. Reg.).






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






17. U.S. Const. amend. XIV -






18. Extensive selected annotations that follows each reported case.






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






20. S. Ct.






21. When an official body authorizes and directs the collection and publication of law






22. When Internal Revenue Service is a party - the term Commissioner is used to identify it (meaning Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service); never use the abbreviation IRS.






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






24. Court's explanation; includes the holding - rationale - and dicta






25. The appellate court reviews the record for prejudicial legal errors committed in the trial court but gives great deference to the findings of fact; factual findings are generally reversed only when they are "arbitrary or capricious"






26. Shepard's Citations - statute edition






27. L. Ed or L. Ed. 2d

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






29. Official publication






30. Opinion issued by the majority of the judges of the appellate court; the holding of this opinion may be cited as precedent if all other criteria are met. There is only one in a case






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






38. 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.






39. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






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






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






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






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






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






45. Federal Cases






46. 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).






47. If the same case is published in another case reporter - the volume and page number of that reporter is shown






48. Statutes at Large






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






50. Reported selectively in the Federal Supplement.