Federal Judiciary
9th Circuit
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Potpourri
100

There are a total of  94 of these in the federal judiciary

What are district courts?

100

When it opened  in 1905, it was dubbed the “most beautiful building in the West”

What is the Browning Courthouse or San Francisco Post Office and Courthouse?

100

This is one of the most important legal databases outside Lexis and Westlaw. On it, you can find current and superseded editions of the U.S. Code and CFR, law reviews, classic legal treatises, U.S. Congressional materials, and more.

What is HeinOnline?

100

The name & number of the volume that follows Fed 3rd volume 999

What is Fed 4th Vol 1?

100

This event happens every Wednesday and Sunday in San Francisco's Civic Center plaza

What is the Farmers Market? (or Heart of the City Farmers Market)

200

This is the youngest circuit in the Federal Judiciary, established on Oct. 1, 1982.

What is the Federal Circuit? (or U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit).

200

A now ubiquitous technology that was still very new in 1905 when the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse first opened in San Francisco.

What is the light bulb?

200

This online resource includes Video Game Law in a Nutshell.

What is West Academic?

200

The onus is on you – "Onus probandi" literally means this.

What is Burden of Proof?

200

This famous fiction writer's subject matter is well informed by the fact that he began his career as an attorney.

Who is John Grisham?

300

In 1988 the Judicial Conference of the United States approved this service as a new way of opening information to the public.

What is PACER?

300

This 9th Circuit state has more glaciers than any other state.

What is Washington State?

300

This is the daily newsletter produced by the librarians of the 9th Circuit.

What is New & Noteworthy? (or N & N?)

300

After a decision, a party may seek to have the panel or the court rehear a case through this process.

What is en banc?

300

This useful piece of camping equipment was said to have been invented by Robert Louis Stevenson in his twenties.

What is the sleeping bag?

400

This 1789 Act Established the Federal Court system.

What is the Judiciary Act?

400

This 9th Circuit state is the only one where Daylight Savings Time is wholly unobserved.

What is Hawai'i?

400

This "library" allows you to borrow an ebook version of the Ninth Circuit Criminal Handbook.

What is LexisNexis Digital Library?

400

The United States Code which regulates Daylight Saving Time is found in this section.

What is 15 U.S.C. § 260a?

400

This San Francisco nonprofit hosts the Wayback Machine, a tool for viewing website content as it appeared at a point in the past.

What is the Internet Archive?

500

In 1971, Congress established this role in order to help alleviate chief judges' increasing administrative responsibilities.

What is the Circuit Executive?

500

This author's books The Tropic of Cancer and the The Tropic of Capricorn were at the center of the 9th Circuit case U.S. v. Two Obscene Books

Who is Henry Miller?

500

This rule helps you determine when it is time to ask for help from a reference librarian.

What is the 10 minute rule?

500

The 1917 law under which Edward Snowden was charged in 2013 isn't called the Spying Act but this act

What is the Espionage Act?

500

 The race held in San Francisco each year on the 3rd Sunday in May and now recognized as the longest consecutively run foot race in the world.

What is Bay to Breakers?