Terms
What is a dissenting opinion?
Legislative, Judicial, and Executive
What are the three branches of government?
Georgia's statutes arranged by topic
What is the Official Code of Georgia?
These types of sources are not binding but contain helpful information
What are secondary sources?
The supreme law of the land
What is the Constitution?
This signal means "above" and is a signal used to send a reader to a preceding entry in an index
What is supra?
This reporter contains judicial decisions from the federal district courts
What is the Federal Supplement?
Georgia's intermediate appellate court
What is the Georgia Court of Appeals?
Use this resource to define a certain term
What is a legal dictionary? What is Black's?
When four Supreme Court justices agree to grant cert
What is the Rule of Four?
The First Monday of October
What is the start of the Supreme Court's term?
While not statutes, these federal rules are set forth by administrative agencies and they correspond to the federal code
What is the Code of Federal Regulations?
The federal district court in Athens
What is the Federal District Court of Middle Georgia?
Use this resource to find out how a word or phrase has been used in a case
What is Words and Phrases?
Eleven numbered ones; one federal one; and one geographic one
What are the federal circuit courts?
The first step is to gather relevant facts/understand the legal problem, the second step is to generate search terms, the third step is to locate and search relevant sources, and the last step is to update
What is a legal research plan?
Federal issue and diversity of citizenship jurisdiction
What are the two ways to get into federal court?
Where Georgia Supreme Court cases are published
What are Georgia Reports?
A secondary source you may use to get examples and instructions on how to draft legal documents
What is a form book?
An electronic search method that uses symbols, word fragments and numbers rather than plain English
What is boolean searching?
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; these are most associated with immigration issues
What is a private law?
This official set contains the text of federal statutes, as passed, in chronological order, by session of Congress
What is the United States Statutes at Large
The name for Georgia's most authoritative practice manual on family law
What is McConaughey's Georgia Divorce, Alimony and Child Custody?
Highly authoritative legal opinions written by the chief legal advisor to the executive branch in the federal or a state government
What are attorney general opinions?
In Lexis use this connector to ensure that two search terms are in the same paragraph
What is /p?