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1. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






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






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






4. Slip opinions collected and published periodically






5. Legal encyclopedia published by West






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Law that establishes and defines the basic rights and duties that govern a society. It consists of constitutions - legislative enactments - common law - and certain executive actions.






14. Statutory law






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






16. 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






17. 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)






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






19. 1. U.S. Constitutional provision and amendments 2. Federal statutes 3. Federal procedural rules 4. Federal cases (U.S. - F.3d - the F.Supp.) 5. State cases (official reporter - then regional reporter) 6. Federal administrative rules and regulations 7






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






21. 15 U.S.C. A 7 (1988).






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






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






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






25. Secondary authority






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






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






28. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






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






30. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






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






32. 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






33. Primary authority






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






35. 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






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






37. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






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






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






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






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






42. 88 C.J.S. Trial A 107 (1980).






43. 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.






44. Anew - from the beginning - the case is tried in the appellate court as if it had not been tried previously - and witness are allowed to testify.






45. Case law






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






47. Selected decisions






48. Shepard's Citations - statute edition






49. The Federal Reporter






50. 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







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