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Certified Legal Research

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






2. A prior case within a particular jurisdiction that has 1. facts and legal issues substantially similar to the facts of the case before the court and 2. it was decided by a majority decision of a higher court of that jurisdiction and 3. the case was r






3. Legal document that carries the most weight and embodies the government's authority to exist and serves as an outline for the exercise of governmental powers.






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






5. Into seven regions.






6. 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






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






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






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






10. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which disagrees with both the result and the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one






11. 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.






12. Shepard's Citations - statute edition






13. Federal Rules Decisions






14. Compiled by topic






15. Statutory law






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






17. Shepard's Citations is used






18. Combined digest to access all federal courts.


19. 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)






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






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






22. U.S. Const. art. IV -






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






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






25. Used to indicate that the full citation appears immediately above - meaning that no other citations intervene between the full citation and the short form id.






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






27. Contain a general commentary on or explanation of the subject.






28. 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.






29. Official publication






30. The cited authority presents helpful background information about the proposition






31. Rule of law for which the case is cited as precedent; it is the legal effect of the facts of the case






32. Fed. R. Crim. P. 42






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






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






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






36. A syllabus of the court






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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






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


42. 1. volume number of encyclopedia 2. abbreviated name of encyclopedia 3. title of article (underscored or in italics) 4. section symbol and section number within the article; 5. specific page within section; and 6. date of publication






43. Primary authority






44. 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"






45. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






46. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






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






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






49. American Digest System






50. Virginia Koerselman - Comment - Worker's Compensation - 15 Creighton L. Rev. 415 (1981).