Secondary Authorities
C.J.S. and Am.Jur. are examples of this type of secondary authority.
What are legal encyclopedias?
This is the name of the citator service for Lexis.
What is Shepard's?
Virginia cases are published in this regional reporter.
What is the South Eastern Reporter?
Virginia's statutes are found in this publication.
What is Virginia Code Annotated?
Put these in order of authority:
Regulations, Constitution, Statutes, Roe v. Wade
What is Constitution, Statutes, Regulations, Roe?
These legal periodicals are edited by law students.
What are law reviews?
On Lexis, this symbol indicates a case may no longer be good law.
What is a stop sign?
What is the difference in a Boolean search that contains a /s versus a /p.
What is one will look in the same sentence the other will look in the same paragraph?
This source is known as the "supreme law of the land."
What is the Constitution?
Where can you find an newly enacted law.
What is congress.gov, Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg, govinfo.gov?
A.L.R. is an abbreviation for this resource.
What is American Law Reports?
What does this docket number tell you?
1:23-cv-00097-MR
What is year filed, civil case, and judges initials.
When a case is binding on a jurisdiction it is said to be?
What is a mandatory authority?
Federal statutes are enacted by this body.
What is Congress?
What do the numbers in this case tell you?
557 U.S. 110
What is the volume for the reporter and the page number the case starts on?
What are series of treatises that articulate the principles or rules for a specific area of law?
What is a Restatement?
This kind of searching uses terms and connectors such as AND, NOT, and OR.
What is Boolean searching?
These are the three courts in federal system.
What are the District Courts, Circuit Courts, and Supreme Court?
Session laws are published in this order.
What is chronologically?
This symbol in Boolean searching is used to replace only 1 letter.
What is an asterisk?
This organization drafts and publishes Restatements of the Law.
What is the American Law Institute?
These editorial enhancements on Westlaw organize cases by topic.
What are Key Numbers?
This is the official reporter for U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
What is U.S. Reports?
This resource helps you find a statute by its commonly used name.
What is Popular Names Table?
After enactment, laws are first published in pamphlets or single sheets known as these.
What are slip laws?