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1. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






2. Federal Reporter - Third Series (F.3d) - Federal Reporter - Second Series (F.2d) - Federal Reporter (F.) - Federal Cases (F. Cas.) - all unofficial and all published by West






3. 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.






4. Compiled by topic






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






6. When an official body authorizes and directs the collection and publication of law






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






8. Official publication






9. The Statutes at Large.






10. Published by West






11. 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.).






12. Shepard's Citations is used






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






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






15. United States Code (U.S.C.)






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






17. West key number system






18. 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






19. Pleadings - transcript of trial testimony - and exhibits






20. Indexes






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


22. 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.






23. Fed. R. Evid. 401






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






25. Devoted to a table of cases and a descriptive word index.






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






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






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






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






30. Official publication






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






32. 88 C.J.S. Trial






33. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.


34. For a particular reporter or a particular group of reporters.






35. Reported selectively in the Federal Supplement.






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






37. The Federal Reporter






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






39. The date upon which the decision was rendered






40. Are catalogued under topics and subtopics assigned to key numbers - using the TARP method. T - thing or subject matter involved in the case; A - Action (cause of action) or ground for defense to an action; R - Relief sought; P - parties - meaning the






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






42. Secondary authority






43. Products of West Legal Studies






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






45. 22 C.F.R.






46. United States Reports






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






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






49. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






50. Only those state appellate court cases which are significant (indicates a change in the law or a new trend in legal thinking).