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Legal Research

Subject : law
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1. Federal Rules Decisions






2. 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.






3. The Federal Reporter






4. Name of the appellant






5. Products of West Legal Studies






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






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






8. 88 C.J.S. Trial A 107 (1980).






9. What federal session laws are published in






10. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






11. Presidential proclamations






12. 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






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






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






15. But they are required for home state cases when parallel citations exist






16. 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






17. Precedent






18. Pleadings - transcript of trial testimony - and exhibits






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






20. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






21. Typical case reporter






22. 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






23. Govern the types of evidence that are admissible in criminal and civil trials and - in some situations - the manner in which the evidence can be presented during trial






24. W. Weitz - Nocturnal Crimes - 20 Brooklyn L. Rev. 180 (1992).






25. Is used in the first 50 volumes of the United States Reports plus all unofficial reporters of Supreme Court decisions






26. 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






27. Statutes at Large






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






29. Extensive selected annotations






30. The West key number system






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






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






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






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






36. As session laws






37. S.Ct.






38. Summarized statute topics






39. Explanation of the subject






40. Supplement volumes or pocket part supplements should be used






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






42. Statutory law






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






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






45. 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






46. United States Reports






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






48. 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)






49. 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.






50. Headnotes in the American Digest System are cataloged in this manner: Thing - Action - Relief - Parties