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






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






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






4. 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)






5. Identifies the court issuing the opinion - the parties - and the docket number assigned to the case






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






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






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






9. Supplemented by the A.L.R. Blue Book of Supplemental Decisions - which is kept current with a semi-annual supplement pamphlet.






10. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






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






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






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






14. Indicates that the full citation appears later in the memorandum - brief - or other work.






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






16. Indexes






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






18. WESTLAW - West Publishing Company; and LEXIS - Mead Data Corporation.






19. West key number system






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. At the close of each legislative term.






28. Digest topic






29. The publication where rules and regulations of administrative agencies are codified






30. Encyclopedias that are arranged alphabetically and contain narrative - expository information on a variety of legal topics. published by West and Lawyers Co-op






31. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






32. Statutes that are collected into a statutory code that are arranged by topic






33. Anew on the record - the appellate court must base its decision on the record (no new testimony can be received) but may reach an independent factual finding if the facts from the trial court are "clearly erroneous" based on the record as a whole






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






35. 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






36. Legal dictionary - treatise - restatement of law - encyclopedia






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






38. 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






39. 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






40. Alaska - Arizona - California - Colorado - Hawaii - Idaho - Kansas - Montana - Nevada - New Mexico - Oklahoma - Oregon - Utah - Washington - and Wyoming






41. Secondary authority that is leading annotated law reporter published by Lawyers Co-op. Distinguishing feature not the cases that it reports - but the extensive editorial commentary that follows each reported case - Restatements of Law Published by th






42. Primary authority






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






44. Reported selectively in the Federal Supplement.






45. A very brief opinion; a cursory opinion; an opinion so abbreviated that it is hardly an opinion at all






46. The subsequent history of the cited case must be included in the citation






47. Fed. R. Crim. P. 42






48. Federal Cases






49. Products of West Legal Studies






50. Secondary authority