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






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. 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.






4. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






5. Compiled chronologically






6. Is a finding tool ONLY - usually compiled by the publisher of the case reporter to which it relates. NEVER cite as legal authority for any purpose.






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






8. U.S. Const. amend. XIV -






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






10. Congressional Record will provide the most direct access to the text of the statute






11. Statutes at Large (Stat.)






12. Official publication






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






14. Official publication






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






16. West key number system






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






18. Official publication






19. Statutory Supplements






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






21. 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






22. The digest for each ten-year period.






23. Omit initials in unless the initial is part of the widely recognzied name (B.J. Hollis Corp. becomes Hollis Corp. - but initials are retained for J.C. Penney Co.). Omit Ltd. - Inc. - and similar terms if the party's name also contains R.R. - Co. - Br






24. Digest topic






25. 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.






26. Indexes






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






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






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






30. Result or disposition of the case






31. Georgia - North Carolina - South Carolina - Virginia - and West Virginia






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






33. Fed. R. Crim. P. 42






34. Is used in legal memoranda and briefs to indicate the full citation for the case follows at a later point in the memorandum or brief






35. Shepard's Citations is used






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






37. The Federal Reporter






38. 88 C.J.S. Trial






39. Identified as "United States" in the case name (do not abbreviate as U.S. or as U.S.A.)






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






41. Compiled by topic






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






43. 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






44. The court's ruling or disposition of the case (whether affirmed - reversed - remanded - or dismissed)






45. Is the same case published in more than one case reporter and should not be used when citing to U.S. Supreme Court cases; cite to U.S. Reports ONLY - for state cases must be cited if they exist.






46. 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






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






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






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






50. The Statutes at Large.