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1. U.S.






2. Black's Law and Ballentine's Law






3. The Statutes at Large.






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


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






6. 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






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






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






9. While indexes summarize statute topics






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






11. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.


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


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






14. A bill that has been adopted into a law but has been printed singly rather than as a part of a group of laws






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






16. Official publication






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






18. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






19. To indicate that the full citation for the case was given previously.


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






21. The cited authority states a proposition that is different from the proposition stated by the writer - but the proposition stated in the cited authority is sufficiently similar to lend support to the writer's proposition






22. 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






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






24. 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






25. Published by West






26. 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.






27. A syllabus of the court






28. The cited authority contradicts the proposition stated in the memorandum






29. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






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






31. John Willis - Annotation - Industrial Noise: Promoting an Unsafe Work Enviroment - 76 A.L.R. Fed. 489 (1986).






32. Federal Rules Decisions






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






34. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






35. The process used to synthesize legal principles from all prior cases with similar facts and similar issues of law to arrive at a decision in a specific case






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






37. Caption - date of decision - parallel citations - headnote or syllabus - statement of facts - opinion - holding - rationale - dicta - decision






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






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






40. Avery v. Exxon Co. - 397 U.S. 812 (1991).






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






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






43. Legal encyclopedia published by West






44. Statutory Supplements






45. There are 3 case reporters for the U.S. Supreme Court - United States Reports (U.S.) Official - Supreme Court Reporter (S.Ct.) Unofficial - United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition (L.Ed. or L.Ed.2d) Unofficial






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






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






48. The method used to determine whether a case still is good law is to check the citation in the appropriate set of Shepard's Citations.






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


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