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1. United States Reports
correct legal encyclopedia citation
West Publishing Company (West)
_____________ is an official publication
Pacific Reporter (P. or P.2d)
2. Court's explanation; includes the holding - rationale - and dicta
annotations
the principles stated in opinions of judges - to be followed in future cases - are called
opinion
legal dictionaries
3. An index
opinion
dicta
The primary finding tool for statutory law - either state or federal - is...
U.S. Law Week
4. Virginia Koerselman - Comment - Worker's Compensation - 15 Creighton L. Rev. 415 (1981).
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company (Lawyers Co-op)
incorrect legal dictionary citation
correct law review citation
Digests summarize judicial decisions - while indexes...
5. Compilations of cases and historical matter dealing with various aspects of a code of statute - which contain short summaries of other cases - both for and against
annotations
when a case has been affirmed - reversed or modified on appeal
TARP method
cf.
6. Georgia - North Carolina - South Carolina - Virginia - and West Virginia
procedural law
South Eastern Reporter (S.E. or S.E.2d)
precedent
Southern Reporter (So. or So.2d)
7. What federal session laws are published in
United States Reports is cited as
statement of facts
Statutes at Large (Stat.)
components of a standard case citation
8. Shepard's Citations - statute edition
_____________ is an official publication
common law
To determine whether a particular statute has been ruled unconstitutional by a court - one may use...
United States Law Week (U.S.L.W)
9. Is used in the first 50 volumes of the United States Reports plus all unofficial reporters of Supreme Court decisions
West Publishing Company (West)
star paging
components of Statutes at Large citation
legal encyclopedias
10. 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.
secondary authority
components of Statutes at Large citation
session laws
slip opinion
11. Shepard's Citators
If a researcher wants to check the current status of a case - he or she should use...
C.J.S uses...
headnote or syllabus
Before 1924 - cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court were combined in
12. 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
To determine whether a particular statute has been ruled unconstitutional by a court - one may use...
sequence of citations
Statutes at Large is
United States Courts of Appeals case reporters
13. Statutes that are collected into a statutory code that are arranged by topic
Digests summarize judicial decisions - while indexes...
Atlantic Reporter (A. or A.2d)
components of and A.L.R. citation
codified
14. Presidential proclamations
Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.)
_______________ are published in the Statutes at Large.
correct citation of a Constitutional article
If a researcher wants to check the current status of a case - he or she should use...
15. Brief summary of facts of case - including its procedural posture
dicta
correct legal encyclopedia citation
statement of facts
The Federal Supplement contains only ________________ of federal district courts across the country.
16. The publication where rules and regulations of administrative agencies are codified
Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)
Digests summarize judicial decisions - while indexes...
In a petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court - the _______________ appears first in the case caption - regardless of how the caption may have been shown in the lower courts.
memorandum opinion
17. Statutes at Large
Federal session laws may be found in...
United States Code Service (U.S.C.S.)
rules of procedure - local court rules - executive orders - administrative regulations: all represent...
codified
18. The court's explanatory comments - which can included the holding - the rationale for the holding - and dicta
correct citation of United States Code
court opinion
An unofficial publication is any publication
components of a Code of Federal Regulations citation
19. Digests
The Federal Register - The Code of Federal Regulations - The United States Code are...
North Western Reporter (N.W. or N.W.2d)
_______ are compilations of case law for a particular reporter or a particular group of reporters.
stare decisis
20. All slip laws enacted during a legislative session that are arranged in chronological order according to date of enactment
majority opinion
sequence of citations
session laws
common law
21. Often provide case citations upon which a definition is based. A couple of them are Black's Law _____ and Ballantine's Law _____.
key number system
official publication of law
legal dictionaries
bill
22. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op
legal encyclopedias
decision
American Jurisprudence - Second Series (Am. Jur. 2d)
Until 1932 - cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court were combined in...
23. Pleadings - transcript of trial testimony - and exhibits
Southern Reporter (So. or So.2d)
The record of a court case includes
restatements of law
components of Statutes at Large citation
24. 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
components of a standard case citation
An unofficial publication is any publication
cf.
rationale
25. Products of West Legal Studies
sequence of citations
components of a Federal Register citation
The National Reporter System and the American Digest System are...
parallel citation
26. Typical case reporter
These represent secondary authority
en banc
The _______________ contains either a separate section or a separate volume devoted to a table of cases and a descriptive word index.
correct Federal Register citation
27. Unofficial U.S. Supreme Court case reporter published by Lawyers Co-op
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28. United States Reports
de novo
The official reporter of the U. S. Supreme Court is...
statutory law
reporter of Supreme Court decisions that contains summaries of the briefs of counsel
29. Ratio decidendi- court's reasoning or basis for it sholding and decision
legal dictionaries
Lawyers-Cooperative Publishing Co.
rationale
components of and A.L.R. citation
30. Statutory law
a secondary authority which is not the law itself but is - rather - a persuasive presentation by legal scholars of what the law is or what it should be in a particular topic are
Federal rules and procedures are...
components of United States Code citation
legal encyclopedias
31. 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
correct citation of Statutes at Large
stare decisis
incorrect case citation
per curiam opinion
32. United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition
Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.)
West Publishing Company (West)
reporter of Supreme Court decisions that contains summaries of the briefs of counsel
United States Code Annotated (U.S.C.A.)
33. Reviews the record for errors of law and reaches its own factual finding.
When an appellate court reviews a case de novo on record - it...
decision
slip opinion
incorrect case citation
34. United States Reports (U.S.) - Supreme Court Reporter (S.Ct.) - United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition (L.Ed. or L.Ed.2d)
opinion
United States Reports is cited as
caption
U.S. Supreme court case reporters
35. Summarized statute topics
Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.)
indexes typically
An annotation is
star paging
36. A syllabus of the court
_______________ are published in the Statutes at Large.
Federal Rules of Evidence
U.S. Reports contains
Statutes are published as session laws...
37. Legal encyclopedia published by West
United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition
correct citation of a Constitutional article
Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.)
Shepard's Citations
38. S.Ct.
Supreme Court Reporter is cited as
parallel citation
the reporter in which federal trial court opinions are contained
digests typically
39. Summarize judicial opinions
digests typically
Statutes are published as slip laws before they are published...
United States Reports
The Federal Supplement contains only ________________ of federal district courts across the country.
40. 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.
the signal infra
de novo
incorrect citation of a law review article
constitutional law
41. Official case reporter for the U.S. Supreme Court
United States Code Annotated (U.S.C.A.)
United States Reports
U.S. Supreme court case reporters
incorrect citation of a law review article
42. Anew on the record - the appellate court must base its decision on the record (no new testimony can be received) but may reach an independent factual finding if the facts from the trial court are 'clearly erroneous' based on the record as a whole
see generally
de novo on record
incorrect case citation
Federal rules and procedures are...
43. How civil actions are handled - including rules that cover the complaint - summons - answer - discovery process - trial - and post-trial procedures
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
the principles stated in opinions of judges - to be followed in future cases - are called
South Western Reporter (S.W. or S.W.2d)
Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
44. Alaska - Arizona - California - Colorado - Hawaii - Idaho - Kansas - Montana - Nevada - New Mexico - Oklahoma - Oregon - Utah - Washington - and Wyoming
components of a legal encyclopedia citation
Pacific Reporter (P. or P.2d)
West Publishing Company (West)
North Eastern Reporter (N.E. or N.E.2d)
45. Obiter dictum- comments of the court about minor issues or concerns other than the specific holding - rationale - and decision. Never cited as precedent
dicta
The American Digest System indexes and classifies all case law - both...
Federal rules and procedures are...
American Law Reports
46. Connecticut - Delaware - D.C. (Court of Appeals) - Maine - Maryland - New Hampshire - New Jersey - Pennsylvania - Rhode Island - and Vermont
Atlantic Reporter (A. or A.2d)
slip law
_____________ is an official publication
_______ are compilations of case law for a particular reporter or a particular group of reporters.
47. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).
correct law review citation
correct Federal Register citation
United States Code Annotated (U.S.C.A.)
West Publishing Company (West)
48. Congressional Record will provide the most direct access to the text of the statute
secondary authority
en banc
if a researcher knows the date when a federal statute was adopted the
A decision of an administrative agency is classified as...
49. 15 U.S.C. A 7 (1988).
To determine whether a particular statute has been ruled unconstitutional by a court - one may use...
correct citation of United States Code
Southern Reporter (So. or So.2d)
restatement of law - encyclopedia - law review article - treatise: all represent...
50. 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'
The official reporter of the U. S. Supreme Court is...
on the record
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company (Lawyers Co-op)
contra
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