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Certified Legal Research

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1. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






2. The Statutes at Large.






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






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






5. F.Supp






6. 1. number of the Code title2. abbreviation for the United States Code 3. section symbol - followed by the number of the Code section; and4. date of the Code volume in which the most recent version of the section can be found






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. U.S.






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






13. Reported selectively in the Federal Supplement.






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






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






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






17. Products of West Legal Studies






18. (Dallas - Cranch - Wheaton - Peters - Howard - Black - and Wallace) - which were cited - for example - 1 Dall. 233.






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






20. A syllabus of the court






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






22. Alaska - Arizona - California - Colorado - Hawaii - Idaho - Kansas - Montana - Nevada - New Mexico - Oklahoma - Oregon - Utah - Washington - and Wyoming






23. To indicate that the full citation for the case was given previously.

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24. At the close of each legislative term.






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

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26. 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






27. 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






28. Mandatory legal authority that consists of constitutions - statutes - case law - rules of procedure - rules of evidence - administrative rules - court rules - executive orders






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






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






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






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






33. Black's Law and Ballentine's Law






34. Digest topic






35. The subsequent history of the cited case must be included in the citation






36. 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.






37. Case law






38. Compiled chronologically






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






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






41. 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)






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






43. Secondary authority






44. United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition






45. Year the Court began using official reporters and its current numbering system






46. 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






47. Digests






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






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






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