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






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






3. Summarized statute topics






4. Reviews the record for errors of law and reaches its own factual finding.






5. Opinion of the entire court (all judges who heard the case) - as opposed to an opinion written by a specific judge






6. The cited authority directly supports the proposition; other authorities also could have been cited but were not cited to avoid duplication






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






8. 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'






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






10. Digests






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






12. Is used in the first 50 volumes of the United States Reports plus all unofficial reporters of Supreme Court decisions






13. Statutory law






14. F.Supp






15. A very brief opinion; a cursory opinion; an opinion so abbreviated that it is hardly an opinion at all






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






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






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






19. When a federal case first decides a case. a single opinion of the court issued without headnotes and without indexing.






20. Case reports - published by West - that divides the United States into seven geographical regions and reports the decisions of the highest appellate court of each state within that region.






21. A syllabus of the court






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






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






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






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






26. Precedent






27. 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)






28. 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






29. Official case reporter for the U.S. Supreme Court






30. A proposed legislative measure






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






32. Extensive selected annotations






33. As session laws






34. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






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






36. Secondary authority






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






38. An unofficial publication of law that is known for its extensive use of annotations






39. Summarize statute topics






40. An index






41. Ballantine's Law Dictionary 41 (3rd ed. 1969).






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






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






44. U.S. Const. art. IV - A 2 - cl. 3.






45. Pleadings - transcript of trial testimony - and exhibits






46. 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






47. Reported selectively






48. At the close of each legislative term






49. Compiled chronologically






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