Basics
Statutes, regulations, court opinions, constitutions, and treaties.
What are primary sources?
You need these to create these.
What are statutes?
Every regulation must have a statute authorizing the agency to create/promulgate regulations/rules.
This the first printed bound version.
What is the Statutes at Large?
The Statutes at Large (Stat.) contain all the public and private laws passed by the House and the Senate. The laws are arranged in chronilogical order. This is prior to codification in the 54 titles in the US Code.
This tells your client and you when they can be held accountable.
What is the effective date?
These are passed by elected officials.
What are statutes?
8th circuit
What is federal court circuit contains Missouri?
Investigate, rulemaking, and adjudiction.
What are the powers each agency has?
PL 101- 23.
What is the Public Law citation?
This tells you the last time changes were made.
What is the history line?
Shepardizing, Keycite, Alerts, Key number & topic, core terms.
What are effective and efficient, methods/ways to find other cases related to yours?
And, or, but not
What are terms and connectors?
Terms & Connectors, or boolean searching gives you more control over results.
What is the Federal Register?
The federal register is published every day, excluding holidays, weekends, and when the government is not is session.
The Federal Register is how the goverment notifies the public of rules/regulations.
United States Code
What is the codified version of the federal statutes?T
There are 54 titles in the US Code. It is published once every 6 years and has yearly supplements.
This tells you how up to date a statute/regulation is.
What is the "Current" line?
Law360, Newsletters, List Serves, Alerts.
What are current awareness tools/services?
54
What is the number of titles in the US Code?
This tells the last time a regulation was published in the Federal Register.
What is the source note?
Commonly mistaken as being part of a legislative history.
What is the Presidential signing statement?
Using these will help you save time and money.
What are alert?
Congress.gov, HeinOnline, Bloomberg Law, Govinfo.gov.
What are (some) sources of the United States Code?
These mataerials explain, analyze primary sources.
What are secondary sources?
This tells the reader where the ablility to create regulations/rules.
What is the Authority note?
This gives the "extras", a more complete history line, references to law reviews, cases, and other information.
What is annotated code or commerical publishers version of the code?
It is 2024, you have a 1989 appeals case these statutes, court rules, and jury instructions apply.
What is 1989?
Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose.
What is the CRAAP test?