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Subject : law
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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






4. F.Supp






5. As session laws






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






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






8. Presidential proclamations






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






10. Products of West Legal Studies






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






12. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which agrees with the result reached by the majority but disagrees with the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one.






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






14. Unofficial U.S. Supreme Court case reporter published by Lawyers Co-op

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15. 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.






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






17. The Federal Reporter






18. Decennial Digest






19. What federal session laws are published in






20. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






21. Shepard's Citations - statute edition






22. 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






23. Summarize judicial opinions






24. 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)






25. 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






26. The date upon which the decision was rendered






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






28. Decisions concerning federal rules of procedure






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






30. Statutory law






31. Summarized statute topics






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






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






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






35. Statutory law






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






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






38. L.Ed or L.Ed.2d

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39. 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






40. U.S. Const. amend. XIV - A 1.






41. 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






42. Shepard's Citators






43. A proposed legislative measure






44. 1. the title (chapter) number 2. abbreviation for the Code of Federal Regulation 3. section number symbol and the section number; and 4. year of publication






45. Statutes at Large






46. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






47. 22 C.F.R. A 145.6 (1992)






48. Pleadings - transcript of trial testimony - and exhibits






49. Selected decisions






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