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Certified Legal Research

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1. Illinois - Indiana - Massachusetts - New York - and Ohio






2. 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)






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






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






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






6. Obiter dictum- comments of the court about minor issues or concerns other than the specific holding - rationale - and decision. Never cited as precedent






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






8. Official publication






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






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






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






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






13. The appellate court reviews the record for prejudicial legal errors committed in the trial court but gives great deference to the findings of fact; factual findings are generally reversed only when they are "arbitrary or capricious"






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






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. Primary authority






17. 15 U.S.C.






18. U.S.






19. Digest topic






20. Statutory Supplements






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






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






23. Secondary authority






24. Anew - from the beginning - the case is tried in the appellate court as if it had not been tried previously - and witness are allowed to testify.






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






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






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






28. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






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






30. Law that establishes and defines the basic rights and duties that govern a society. It consists of constitutions - legislative enactments - common law - and certain executive actions.






31. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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






33. United States Reports






34. 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






35. Products of West Legal Studies






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

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37. The digest for the current period.






38. Issued by a private - non-government publisher (primary law - secondary law - encyclopedia - or other).






39. U.S. Const. amend. XIV -






40. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






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






42. At the close of each legislative term.






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






44. Slip laws before they are published as session laws.






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






46. The court's explanatory comments - which can included the holding - the rationale for the holding - and dicta






47. 88 C.J.S. Trial






48. Case law






49. Shepard's Citations - statute edition






50. Fed. R. Evid. 401