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Legal Research

Subject : law
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1. Typical case reporter






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






3. Result or disposition of the case






4. An unofficial publication of law that is known for its extensive use of annotations






5. U.S.






6. Infra

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7. 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






8. Anew on the record - the appellate court must base its decision on the record (no new testimony can be received) but may reach an independent factual finding if the facts from the trial court are 'clearly erroneous' based on the record as a whole






9. Reported selectively






10. Compiled chronologically






11. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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






13. 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.






14. Summarize judicial opinions






15. 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






16. Primary authority






17. Published by Lawyers Co-op






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






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






20. As session laws






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






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






23. Supra

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






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






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






27. The publication where rules and regulations of administrative agencies are codified






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






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






30. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






31. Advance sheet published by Commerce Clearing House






32. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






33. 88 C.J.S. Trial A 107 (1980).






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






35. Official publication






36. Iowa - Michigan - Minnesota - Nebraska - North Dakota - South Dakota - and Wisconsin






37. 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.






38. A proposed legislative measure






39. Arkansas - Kentucky - Missouri - Tennessee - Texas - and Indian Territories






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






41. Statutory law






42. 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






43. Virginia Koerselman - Comment - Worker's Compensation - 15 Creighton L. Rev. 415 (1981).






44. Statutes at Large






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






46. An index






47. The West key number system






48. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






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






50. What federal session laws are codified and published in