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






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






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






4. Brief summary of facts of case - including its procedural posture






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






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


7. Published by West






8. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






9. Statutory law






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






11. 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 Can check the Historicdal Table at the back of A.L.R. Index to find ouit whether an A.L.R. series annotation has been superseded (r






12. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






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






14. The abbreviation for the agency typically is used in the case name (FCC - SEC - etc.).






15. Official publication






16. 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"






17. 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.






18. 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






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






20. Fed. R. Evid. 401






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






22. 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






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


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






25. A syllabus of the court






26. Federal Rules Decisions






27. Shepard's Citations - statute edition






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


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






30. Black's Law and Ballentine's Law






31. Federal district courts across the country.






32. Secondary authority






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






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






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






36. Omit initials in unless the initial is part of the widely recognzied name (B.J. Hollis Corp. becomes Hollis Corp. - but initials are retained for J.C. Penney Co.). Omit Ltd. - Inc. - and similar terms if the party's name also contains R.R. - Co. - Br






37. Govern the types of evidence that are admissible in criminal and civil trials and - in some situations - the manner in which the evidence can be presented during trial






38. Extensive selected annotations that follows each reported case.






39. Combined digest to access all federal courts.


40. 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)






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






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






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






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






45. Decennial Digest and uses the key number system.






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






47. Statutes at Large (Stat.)






48. Result or disposition of the case






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






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