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






2. Fed. R. Evid. 401






3. 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






4. The Statutes at Large.






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






6. Reviews the record for errors of law and reaches its own factual finding.






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






8. 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.






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






10. Statutory Supplements






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






12. West key number system






13. Federal district courts across the country.






14. Published by West






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






16. Products of West Legal Studies






17. A system where every topic and subtopic is assigned its own key number






18. 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






19. Digests






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






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






22. Shepard's Citations - statute edition






23. 1. full name of author 2. designation of type of article (required only if written by student); 3. title of article (italicized or underscored) 4. volume number of law review 5. abbreviated name of law review 6. page number where article begins; and






24. U.S. Const. art. IV -






25. Extensive selected annotations that follows each reported case.






26. An unofficial publication of law that is known for its extensive use of annotations






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






28. 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.






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






30. Compiled chronologically






31. 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.






32. Combined digest to access all federal courts.

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33. At the close of each legislative term.






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






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






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






37. 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






38. Official publication






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






40. Statutes at Large






41. Official publication






42. The digest for each ten-year period.






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






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






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






46. The digest for the current period.






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






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






49. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






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