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Legal Research

Subject : law
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1. Unofficial U.S. Supreme Court case reporter published by Lawyers Co-op

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2. Decennial Digest






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






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






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






6. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






7. United States Reports






8. Legal document that carries the most weight and embodies the government's authority to exist and serves as an outline for the exercise of governmental powers.






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






10. Summarize statute topics






11. Result or disposition of the case






12. The three branches of government that make up each legal system- legislative - judicial and executive






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






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






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






16. Federal Cases






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






18. Encyclopedia






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






20. 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'






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






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






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






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






25. 88 C.J.S. Trial A 107 (1980).






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






27. Selected decisions






28. Infra

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29. 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.






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. Name of the appellant






32. Precedent






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






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






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






36. 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






37. Products of West Legal Studies






38. Presidential proclamations






39. Extensive selected annotations






40. 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






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






42. Supra

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43. Typical case reporter






44. Statutes at Large






45. Federal Rules Decisions






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






47. Published by West






48. What federal session laws are published in






49. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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50. S.Ct.