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1. 15 U.S.C. A 7 (1988).






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






3. Federal Cases






4. Decennial Digest






5. Supplement volumes or pocket part supplements should be used






6. 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






7. Restatement (of law)






8. 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.






9. Advance sheet published weekly by the Bureau of National Affairs






10. Federal Rules Decisions






11. Published by Lawyers Co-op






12. Arkansas - Kentucky - Missouri - Tennessee - Texas - and Indian Territories






13. 1. volume number of encyclopedia 2. abbreviated name of encyclopedia 3. title of article (underscored or in italics) 4. section symbol and section number within the article; 5. specific page within section; and 6. date of publication






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






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






16. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






17. Seven






18. As session laws






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






20. Primary authority






21. Shepard's Citations is used






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






23. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






24. Name of the appellant






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






26. L.Ed or L.Ed.2d

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27. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






28. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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29. 1. volume number of Fed. Reg. 2. abbreviation for Federal Register 3. page number where administrative rule begins; and 4. year of publication






30. What federal session laws are codified and published in






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






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






33. 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






34. F.Supp






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






36. Opinion issued by the majority of the judges of the appellate court; the holding of this opinion may be cited as precedent if all other criteria are met. There is only one in a case






37. 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






38. American Digest System






39. 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






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






41. United States Reports






42. Reported selectively






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






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






45. Health Care Act - Pub. L. 92-117 - 83 Stat. 624 (1987).






46. Precedent






47. 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.






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






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






50. Products of West Legal Studies