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Legal Research

Subject : law
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1. United States Reports (U.S.) - Supreme Court Reporter (S.Ct.) - United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition (L.Ed. or L.Ed.2d)






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






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






4. Shepard's Citations is used






5. Federal Cases






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






7. 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.






8. Explanation of the subject






9. Result or disposition of the case






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






11. How civil actions are handled - including rules that cover the complaint - summons - answer - discovery process - trial - and post-trial procedures






12. Shepard's Citations - statute edition






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






14. 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)






15. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






16. Rule of law for which the case is cited as precedent; it is the legal effect of the facts of the case






17. 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






18. 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






19. Federal Rules Decisions






20. Advance sheet published by Commerce Clearing House






21. Statutory law






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






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






24. Published by Lawyers Co-op






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






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






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






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






29. S.Ct.






30. What federal session laws are codified and published in






31. Supplement volumes or pocket part supplements should be used






32. Typical case reporter






33. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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34. An index






35. Decennial Digest






36. A single-volume text written by a legal scholar in a given topic area






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






38. Case law






39. Digests






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






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






42. 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






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






44. Precedent






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






46. 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






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






48. 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'






49. 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






50. Unofficial U.S. Supreme Court case reporter published by West