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1. 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.






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






3. Used to indicate that the full citation appears immediately above - meaning that no other citations intervene between the full citation and the short form id.






4. 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.).






5. Statutory Supplements






6. 1. the title (chapter) number 2. abbreviation for the Code of Federal Regulation 3. section number symbol and the section number; and 4. year of publication






7. The three branches of government that make up each legal system- legislative - judicial and executive






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






9. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






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






11. Alaska - Arizona - California - Colorado - Hawaii - Idaho - Kansas - Montana - Nevada - New Mexico - Oklahoma - Oregon - Utah - Washington - and Wyoming






12. The digest for each ten-year period.






13. Secondary authority that is leading annotated law reporter published by Lawyers Co-op. Distinguishing feature not the cases that it reports - but the extensive editorial commentary that follows each reported case - Restatements of Law Published by th






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






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






16. Is issued when a federal case first decides a case. This is a single opinion of the court issued without headnotes and without indexing.






17. Digests






18. Unofficial U.S. Supreme Court case reporter published by Lawyers Co-op


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






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






21. The date upon which the decision was rendered






22. Official publication






23. United States Supreme Court Digest (West) and United States Supreme Court Digest - Lawyers' Edition (Lawyers Co-op)






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






25. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






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






27. Case law






28. 88 C.J.S. Trial






29. A proposed legislative measure






30. 1. case name 2. case reporter in which the case is published (include volume number - abbreviation of case reporter - and page where case begins); 3. identity of court issuing the opinion 4. year in which the decision was issued; and 5. subsequent hi






31. Is used in legal memoranda and briefs to indicate the full citation for the case follows at a later point in the memorandum or brief






32. While indexes summarize statute topics






33. Statutory law






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






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






36. Iowa - Michigan - Minnesota - Nebraska - North Dakota - South Dakota - and Wisconsin






37. Fed. R. Crim. P. 42






38. 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






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






40. Consists of articles and various amendments






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






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






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






44. The Federal Reporter






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






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






47. Pleadings - transcript of trial testimony - and exhibits






48. Decennial Digest and uses the key number system.






49. U.S. Const. amend. XIV -






50. A reference to a legal authority - such as a constitution - statute - case - administrative rule - or other authority.