Finding the Law/ Legal Basics
VAMS and RSMO contain this type of legal material.
What are the Missouri Statutes?
This online legal service pulls information from Pacer.
What is Bloomberg Law?
It can be used update or verify the validity of case.
What is shepardizing or keyciting?
Legal sources that are persuasive only and need not be followed by courts of law.
What are secondary sources?
What you must do to a case name in a citation.
What is italicize or underline?
The constitution has 3 main bodies of government, legislative, executive, and judicial.
What is the separation of powers?
The name of the official set of books that publishes cases from the U.S. Supreme Court.
What is the United States Reports?
These help implement statutes, by giving guidance to the public and the agency.
What is a rule or regulation?
A secondary source you may use to find how a word or phrase has been used in a case.
What is Words and Phrases?
A.L.R.4th
What is the abbreviation for American Law Reports, 4th Series?
This publication contains key numbers and topics.
What is the digest?
The 54 categories of our federal statutes.
What are titles?
Saint Louis University Law School is located in this federal circuit.
What is the 8th circuit?
Law school publications; publications of bar and other associations; specialized publications for those in the legal profession who share similar interests; and legal newspapers and newsletters
What are legal periodicals?
A reference to a particular page on which a quotation appears.
What is a pinpoint or jump cite?
Administrative bodies have three main powers/duties.
What are rule making, adjudication, and enforcement?
This type of publication contains the text of a statute, legislative history, and references to cases, regulations, law reviews, and other secondary sources.
What is an unofficial code?
A search method that uses symbols, word fragments, and numbers rather than plain English.
What is boolean searching?
A secondary source you may use to get examples and instructions on how draft an agreement or legal document.
What is form book?
Two citations to the same case.
What are parallel citations?
Cases, statutes, constitutions, treaties, and administrative regulations.
What are primary sources of law?
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?
The University of Illinois is in this federal circuit.
What is the 7th Circuit?
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?
The best-known citation system.
What is the Bluebook ?