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Subject : law
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1. Govern the way in which a defendant is charged - tried - and sentenced for a federal crime






2. Legal encyclopedia published by West






3. Alaska - Arizona - California - Colorado - Hawaii - Idaho - Kansas - Montana - Nevada - New Mexico - Oklahoma - Oregon - Utah - Washington - and Wyoming






4. United States Reports






5. What federal session laws are codified and published in






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






7. Ritches Jr. v. Li - 665 F. Supp. 139 (E.D.Pa. 1991).






8. 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.






9. Published by Lawyers Co-op






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






11. Infra

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12. Advance sheet published by Commerce Clearing House






13. Seven






14. Encyclopedia






15. 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






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






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






18. Decennial Digest






19. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which agrees with the result reached by the majority but disagrees with the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one.






20. 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






21. United States Reports






22. Secondary authority that is leading annotated law reporter published by Lawyers Co-op. Distinguishing feature not the cases that it reports - but the extensive editorial commentary that follows each reported case






23. 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'






24. Products of West Legal Studies






25. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






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






27. 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






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






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






30. 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






31. A prior case within a particular jurisdiction that has 1. facts and legal issues substantially similar to the facts of the case before the court and 2. it was decided by a majority decision of a higher court of that jurisdiction and 3. the case was r






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






33. Digest topic






34. 1. full name of author; 2. the word 'Annotation'; 3. title of annotation (underscored or in italics); 4. volume number of A.L.R. series 5. abbreviation for Annotated Law Reports 6. page number where the annotation begins; 7. year of publication






35. 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






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






37. Primary authority






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






39. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






40. Supplement volumes or pocket part supplements should be used






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






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






43. Caption - date of decision - parallel citations - headnote or syllabus - statement of facts - opinion - holding - rationale - dicta - decision






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






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






46. S.Ct.






47. Summarized statute topics






48. 1. the title (chapter) number 2. abbreviation for the Code of Federal Regulation 3. section number symbol and the section number; and 4. year of publication






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






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