Finding the Law/ Court Systems
Westlaw - Federal
Lexis - Federal
Westlaw - State
Lexis - State
100
Official pronouncements of the law by the executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch.
What is a primary authority?
100
The federal law that prevents US Capitol police from using mounted horses.
What is 2 USCA Sec. 1980?
100
The federal statute that discusses inveiglement as a means of kidnapping.
What is 18 USCS Sec 1201: Kidnapping?
100
The Texas Statute that deals with sale of armadillos.
What is Texas Parks & Wildlife Code Sec. 63.103?
100
The Alabama law that criminalizes pretending to be a nun.
What is Alabama Code 13A-14-4- Pretending to be a member of the clergy?
200
The requirement that a plaintiff in a federal court case must allege actual or threatened injury.
What is standing?
200
The federal statute that prohibits the US flag from being used as a costume?
What is 4 USCA Sec. 8? Respect for Flag
200
The federal statute that makes it a crime to knowingly let your pig enter a fenced-in area on public land where it might destroy the grass?
What is 18 USCS Sec 1857?
200
The Iowa Statute that creates a felony for control of a gun by a convicted felon.
What is Iowa Code Annotated Section 724.26?
200
The South Carolina provision that prohibits work on Sunday.
What is Sec. 53-1-40?
300
The concept of following previous cases or precedents.
What is stare decisis?
300
The Federal Rule of Evidence addressing ways to prove character.
What is Federal Rule of Evidence, Rule 405?
300
The statute that makes it a federal crime to consult with a known pirate.
What is 18 U.S.C.S. ยง1657: Corruption of seamen and confederating with pirates?
300
The Delaware law that makes it a crime to sell cat hair.
What is Delaware Code Sec. 1325A?
300
The New York Penal Code that criminalizes congregating in public with two or more people while each wearing a mask which disguises your identity.
What is New York Penal Law Section 240.35 (4): Loitering?
400
The most widely used means to gain access to the U.S. Supreme Court from the lower courts of appeal.
What is a writ of certiorari?
400
The statute that requires the federal government to collect data about cotton in other countries.
What is 13 U.S.C.A. Sec 44: Foreign cotton statistics?
400
The Federal Rule of Evidence for preventing witnesses from being in the courtroom when they are not testifying.
What is Federal Rule of Evidence, Rule 615: Excluding Witnesses?
400
The effective date for when Alabama repealed its bear exploitation law?
What is April 21, 2015 - see Ala. Code 1975 Sec. 13A-12-5
400
The Wyoming statute and sanction for entering a sawmill while drunk.
What is Wyoming Statute Sec. 35-10-402 and what is a fine not exceeding $500 and imprisonment in the county jail for more not more than 1 year?
500
A law that affects only one person or a small group of persons, granting them some special benefit not afforded to the public at large.
What is a private law?
500
The statute and statutory penalty for treason.
What is 18 USCA Sec. 2381 and what is shall suffer death or be imprisoned not less than 5 years and fined not less than $10,000 and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States?
500
The Federal statute and sanction for issuing counterfeit weather warnings falsely representing that they are from the Weather Bureau.
What is 18 USCS Sec. 2074: False weather reports and what is a fine or imprisonment of not more than 90 days, or both?
500
The Texas Statute that became effective September 1 to address texting while driving.
What is Transportation Code Sec. 545-4251: Use of Portable Wireless Communication Device for Electronic Messaging?
500
The class felony designation imposed on a felon who is wearing body armor in Oregon.
What is a Class C felony? See Oregon Revised Statute 166.642: Felon in Possession of Body Armor
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