Legal Research
The name of the process by which a legal researcher finds authorities that have cited the authority the researcher is working from.
What is KeyCiting (Westlaw) or Shepardizing (Lexis)?
The only parts of a full case citation that are underlined / italicized.
What are the parties’ names and subsequent history.
“We the People of the United States” is the opening to which section of the US Constitution?
What is The Preamble? (extra credit if you can sing The Preamble from SchoolHouse Rock)
Opinions issued from these courts are binding on a trial court in New Jersey on the interpretation of beneficiary under the NJ Charitable Immunity Act.
What are the NJ Supreme Court and the NJ Superior Court, Appellate Division.
Now, Ms. Vito, being an expert on general automotive knowledge, can you tell me... what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet, with a 327 cubic-inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor?
What is My Cousin Vinny?
This is how you know when your research is done.
What is when you research from several different approaches and you keep coming up with the same cases?
When a pinpoint page citation must be added to a citation (other than a citation to a statute or constitution).
What is every single time a citation is used?
The period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877 that is a significant period in civil rights laws.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
The word used to describe legal authorities that may be helpful to analyzing a particular issue but are not binding.
What is persuasive?
“Oh, sweetheart, you don’t need law school. Law school is for people who are boring and ugly and serious. And you, button, are none of those things.”
What is Legally Blonde?
The first and last steps you should take on any given legal research plan.
What is research secondary sources?
Id.
What is the appropriate short form of a citation to use when the immediately preceding citation is the same authority?
This is the kind of paper on which the original Constitution was written.
What is parchment?
The weight of an opinion from a federal district court in New Jersey interpreting New Jersey law on the issue of who is a “beneficiary” under the NJ Charitable Immunity Act.
What is persuasive?
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up, your father’s passing."
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
The number of hours of legal research that Memo #2 should take you.
What is “it depends”?
Table 1 of the Bluebook.
What is the section of the Bluebook that sets forth detailed citation rules for individual jurisdictions?
This is the number of rights that the First Amendment protects against government action.
What is six?
Congress shall make no law:
1.respecting an establishment of religion, or
2. prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
3. abridging the freedom of speech, or
4. of the press; or
5. the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
6. to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The weight of an opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit interpreting New Jersey law on the issue of who is a “beneficiary” under the NJ Charitable Immunity Act.
What is highly persuasive?
“We’re standing here in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, the birthplace of freedom, where the founding fathers authored the Declaration of Independence, and I don’t recall that glorious document saying anything about all straight men are created equal. I believe it says all men are created equal."
What is Philadelphia?
The number of authorities that should be used in Memo #2.
What is “it depends”?
A quotation of 50 words or more that when written in a memo or brief is formatted differently from regular text in that it is indented and justified on both the left and right and no quotation marks are used.
What is a block quote?
This signer of the Constitution who has been called the ten-dollar founding father without a father.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The weight of an unpublished case from the New Jersey Superior Court, Law Division, interpreting New Jersey law on the issue of who is a “beneficiary” under the NJ Charitable Immunity Act.
What is slightly persuasive?
“We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. Well, today you are the law. You are the law. Not some book... not the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer.”
What is The Verdict?