Primary or secondary?
Statutes/Rules/Regs
Mandatory or persuasive?
Find the error/s?
Potpourri
100

California Jurisprudence

What is secondary? California Jurisprudence is a legal encyclopedia.

100

If you are citing the United States Code, do you refer to it as U.S.C., U.S.C.A. or U.S.C.S.?

U.S.C. is the official cite.  

U.S.C.A. is the annotated (unofficial) code found on Westlaw.  U.S.C.S. is the annotated (unofficial) code on Lexis.


100

A Northern District of California case on another Northern District of California case on a federal issue. 

Persuasive

100

Id. p. 130.

Id. at 130.

100

Name the official reporter for Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decisions?

Federal Reporter (F. F.2d F.3d F.4th)

200

Federal regulations

What is primary?

200

What information is needed when you cite a statute for the first time?

Title number, code name, section; or Code subject-matter name, section

200

A Supreme Court of California decision on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal on a question of California law.

Mandatory.

200

Plaintiff argued that ". . . the doctrine of collateral estoppel does not apply here."

Quotations never begin with an ellipsis.

200

Draft the court/date parenthetical for a case by the Eastern District of New York in 2016.  

(E.D.N.Y. 2016).

300

ALR

What is secondary?

Similar to a legal encyclopedia, ALR features a more narrow range of topics than a legal encyclopedia.

300

What is the Bluebook citation for Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?

Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6).

300

The California Rules of Court in California state court.

Mandatory

300

Calif. Code Civ §110 (West 2004).

Cal. Civ. Code § 110.  

300

Name the three instances when the word "court" is capitalized.

1. When naming any court in full
2. When referring the U.S. Supreme Court
3. In a document when referring to the court that will receive the document.

400

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

What is primary?

400

When should you consider looking at legislative history?

When the controlling statute is unclear on its face or as applied to your facts.

400

The United States Supreme Court on a California Superior Court on an issue of California law.

What is persuasive?

400

Smith v. Smith, 100 F. Supp. 2d 522 (2011).

Missing the name of the court in the parenthetical.  

400

Name the reporter where federal district court decisions are published?

Federal Supplement (F. Supp.  F. Supp. 2d F. Supp. 3d, F. Supp. 4th)

500

Federal Reporter

What is primary? Decisions by the United States Courts of Appeals are published in the Federal Reporter.

500

Where are federal regulations published?

Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)

500

What determines whether you should cite binding or non-binding authority?

Your purpose for citing a case often determines the best authority - either binding or non-binding - to cite.

500

Dogg v. Bite, 123 Cal. 4th 22, 25 (S.D. Cal. 2010).

Either the reporter is incorrect, or the court/date parenthetical is incorrect.  California Supreme Court decisions are reported in California Reports.  S.D. Cal. refers to the federal district court in the Southern District. 

500

Name five states located in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

California, Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Arizona.