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1. S. Ct.






2. Georgia - North Carolina - South Carolina - Virginia - and West Virginia






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






9. The digest for the current period.






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






11. 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






12. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






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






14. Holding of a case which guides the decisions in future cases involving similar facts and similar legal issues






15. 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.






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

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17. The date upon which the decision was rendered






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






19. 88 C.J.S. Trial






20. 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.






21. Annotated law reporter and is the secondary legal authority published by Lawyers Co-op.






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






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






24. 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)






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






26. Statutory law






27. 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.






28. Official publication






29. Type of law consisting of legislative enactments called statutes at federal level and ordinances at state levels.






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






31. U.S. Const. amend. XIV -






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






33. Which reports only federal cases and is supplemented by an individual - cumulative pocket found at the back of each volume.






34. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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






36. Slip opinions compiled in two different sets of advance sheets: (1) United States Law Week (U.S.L.W) - published weekly by the Bureau of National Affairs and (2) United States Supreme Court Bulletin - published by Commerce Clearing House.






37. The Federal Reporter






38. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






39. 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






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






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






42. United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition






43. While indexes summarize statute topics






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






45. 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.






46. Both state and federal.






47. United States Reports






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






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






50. 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