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Certified Legal Research

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






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






3. Extensive selected annotations that follows each reported case.






4. 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






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






6. U.S.






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






8. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






9. Published by Lawyers Co-op






10. Shepard's Citations is used






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






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






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






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






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






16. Result or disposition of the case






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






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

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






20. 1. full name of author; 2. the word "Annotation"; 3. title of annotation (underscored or in italics); 4. volume number of A.L.R. series 5. abbreviation for Annotated Law Reports 6. page number where the annotation begins; 7. year of publication






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






22. West key number system






23. Federal district courts across the country.






24. Iowa - Michigan - Minnesota - Nebraska - North Dakota - South Dakota - and Wisconsin






25. West publishes separate digests for nearly every state plus the District of Columbia - as well as digests tied to five of its seven regional case reporters.






26. American Digest System






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. The Statutes at Large.






31. Compiled by topic






32. Black's Law and Ballentine's Law






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






34. 88 C.J.S. Trial






35. Used to find annotations on a particular topic which covers A.L.R.3d and A.L.R.4th and the series comes in five parts. Can check the Historicdal Table at the back of A.L.R. Index to find ouit whether an A.L.R. series annotation has been superseded (r






36. Avery v. Exxon Co. - 397 U.S. 812 (1991).






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






38. F.Supp






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






40. 22 C.F.R.






41. Is the primary finding tool for statutory law - either state or federal.






42. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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43. Legal encyclopedia published by West






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






45. The digest for the current period.






46. How civil actions are handled - including rules that cover the complaint - summons - answer - discovery process - trial - and post-trial procedures






47. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






48. Fed. R. Evid. 401






49. Indexes






50. Into seven regions.