Authority
The materials produced by government bodies in their law-making capacity.
What is primary authority?
A federal unpublished opinion can be cited to in federal courts if written after this date
What is January 1, 2007?
This is the first form of a statute after a bill becomes law
What is a Public Law?
What are the restatements?
CFR stands for these three words
What is Code of Federal Regulations?
A court is likely to do this when the considering a question from another jurisdiction, where no mandatory authority exists
What is certify the question?
The name of the official set of books that publishes cases from the U.S. Supreme Court.
What is the United States Reports?
Statutes at large are arranged in this order
What is chronological by class of congress
This type of legal secondary sources is the best choice for seeking in-depth treatment of a narrow subject matter
What is a treatise?
This reporter collects opinions from the federal district courts
What is the Federal Supplement, or F. Supp?
Courts of the same level apply this type of stare decisis
What is horizontal stare decisis?
The keynumber system arranges cases by
What is subject or topic?
The best way to find controlling cases to interpret an ambiguous statute
What are notes of/to decision?
This secondary source is the only type that occasionally becomes binding law
What are sample jury instructions?
A reference to a particular page on which a quotation appears.
What is a pincite?
A three-judge panel can overrule another three-judge panel when one of these events occurs
intervening supreme court decision, or potentially a statute or amendment
This state's name was spelled wrong in the US Constitution
What is "Pensylvania?"
Statutes in the US code are broken into 54 ____ which are arranged by _____.
What are titles and subject?
The most famous legal dictionary is _____, currently edited by ______.
What is Black's Law Dictionary, edited by Bryan Garner.
Two citations to the same case are called
What are parallel citations?
When a state court chooses, as a matter of policy, to follow federal courts' decisions on the mirrored or analog federal constitutional amendment, this is called
What is lockstep?
Courts occasionally turn to this type of material when seeking the meaning of an ambiguous law
What is legislative history?
After passing both chambers of congress, a bill is
What is an enrolled bill?
This type of legislative history is typically the most persuasive
What are conference reports?
Judge Posner likened the Bluebook to this terrible disease?
What is cancer?