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Legal Research

Subject : law
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1. Reported selectively






2. 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






3. 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






4. 15 U.S.C. A 7 (1988).






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






6. Freedom of Information Act - 46 U.S.C. A 89 (1973).






7. American Digest System






8. Compiled by topic






9. As session laws






10. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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






12. Encyclopedia






13. Illinois - Indiana - Massachusetts - New York - and Ohio






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






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






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






17. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






18. 1. full name of author 2. designation of type of article (required only if written by student); 3. title of article (italicized or underscored) 4. volume number of law review 5. abbreviated name of law review 6. page number where article begins; and






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






20. Supplement volumes or pocket part supplements should be used






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






22. Extensive selected annotations






23. 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)






24. S.Ct.






25. Restatement (of law)






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






27. Summarize judicial opinions






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






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






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






31. U.S. Const. amend. XIV - A 1.






32. Federal Cases






33. 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






34. Products of West Legal Studies






35. 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






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






37. The court's explanatory comments - which can included the holding - the rationale for the holding - and dicta






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






39. Decennial Digest






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






41. Primary authority






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






43. 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






44. The entire court participates rather than the permissible quorum. This does not mean that the entire court agrees on the outcome - however.






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. A proposed legislative measure






50. L.Ed or L.Ed.2d

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