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1. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






2. Statutory Supplements






3. Statutory law






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






5. A syllabus of the court






6. Digests






7. 1. number of the Code title2. abbreviation for the United States Code 3. section symbol - followed by the number of the Code section; and4. date of the Code volume in which the most recent version of the section can be found






8. Persuasive legal authority that consists of law from other jurisdictions - legal encyclopedias - American Law Reports - restatements of law - dictionaries - treatises and periodicals






9. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.


10. 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






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






12. Legal publisher noted for its extensive use of annotations.






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






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






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






16. Reported selectively in the Federal Supplement.






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






18. West publishes separate digests for nearly every state plus the District of Columbia - as well as digests tied to five of its seven regional case reporters.






19. Shepard's Citations is used






20. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






21. Statutory law






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






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






24. U.S. Const. art. IV -






25. Federal Rules Decisions






26. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which disagrees with both the result and the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one






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






28. Use digest to find case references; read the case in the reporter; and shepardize to determine status.






29. Published by West






30. At the close of each legislative term.






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






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






33. Extensive selected annotations that follows each reported case.






34. Primary authority






35. The court's ruling or disposition of the case (whether affirmed - reversed - remanded - or dismissed)






36. Indexes






37. A continuing digest series that collects headnote summaries from all federal and state courts (combined) during consecutive ten-year periods.






38. Pleadings - transcript of trial testimony - and exhibits






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






40. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which agrees with the result reached by the majority but disagrees with the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one.






41. 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.






42. 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.).






43. 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






44. Official publication






45. 1. volume number of encyclopedia 2. abbreviated name of encyclopedia 3. title of article (underscored or in italics) 4. section symbol and section number within the article; 5. specific page within section; and 6. date of publication






46. Digest topic






47. 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.






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






49. Black's Law and Ballentine's Law






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