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Legal Research

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






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






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






4. Ratio decidendi- court's reasoning or basis for it sholding and decision






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






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






7. Legal dictionary - treatise - restatement of law - encyclopedia






8. Decennial Digest






9. Statutes that are collected into a statutory code that are arranged by topic






10. If the same case is published in another case reporter - the volume and page number of that reporter is shown






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






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. At the close of each legislative term






14. Obiter dictum- comments of the court about minor issues or concerns other than the specific holding - rationale - and decision. Never cited as precedent






15. Case law - or judicial opinion - that articulates common law principles






16. Statutes at Large






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






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. Advance sheet published weekly by the Bureau of National Affairs






20. Compiled chronologically






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






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






23. Legal publisher noted for its extensive use of annotations.






24. Reported selectively






25. Supplement volumes or pocket part supplements should be used






26. Presidential proclamations






27. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






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






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






30. Often provide case citations upon which a definition is based. A couple of them are Black's Law _____ and Ballantine's Law _____.






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

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32. Summarize judicial opinions






33. Statutes at Large






34. 1. case name 2. case reporter in which the case is published (include volume number - abbreviation of case reporter - and page where case begins); 3. identity of court issuing the opinion 4. year in which the decision was issued; and 5. subsequent hi






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






36. Published by Lawyers Co-op






37. Published by the American Law Institute - it collects and distills the primary - general rules in a given legal topic area- what the rules are and sometime what the committee believes they ought to be. It also provides explanations of the rules and g






38. Slip opinions collected and published periodically






39. The Federal Reporter






40. Result or disposition of the case






41. A single-volume text written by a legal scholar in a given topic area






42. Published by West






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






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






45. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






46. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






47. Statutory law






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






49. Secondary authority






50. 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