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Case Law
Regulations
Statutes
Secondary Sources
I Feel LUCKY!
100
Editorial Abstracts/brief summaries of the rules of law or significant facts in a case. They preface each case in the West Reporters and on Westlaw.
What are headnotes?
100
The Federal Register and The Code of Federal Regulations are both available back to the very first issue of each in this source.
What is Hein Online?
100
These two annotated editions of the United States Code follow the exact citation pattern as the U.S. Code, and publish laws much sooner than the U.S. Government.
What are the USCA and the USCS?
100
A word that sounds like an agreement between two countries, but is really an in-depth treatment of a single legal subject.
What is a treatise?
100
Of the following categories of law, the one that does not exist: - Primary-mandatory authority - Primary-persuasive authority - Secondary-mandatory authority - Secondary- persuasive authority
What is secondary-mandatory authority?
200
_________ _________ are free to decide the precedential weight of unpublished decisions, but they may not prohibit their citation.
What are the Federal Courts?
200
The name of the source where agency regulations are published chronologically, in proposed form, and again in final form.
What is the Federal Register?
200
The generic name for a statute set that provides references to sources of information that interpret, explain, and otherwise pertain to laws enacted by a legislative body.
What is an annotated code?
200
A type of treatise comprised of a single volume providing law students with a clear and straightforward statement of the law on a single topic.
What is a Hornbook? OR What is a Nutshell?
200
On of the first steps for researching a legal topic you're unfamiliar with. If neglected, you will likely be UNABLE to find materials on point, whether searching online or in print resources.
What is defining your legal issue OR generating search terms?
300
The method of case law research that lets you quickly and efficiently build from a known case on point to find more cases directly related is called ______________
What is The One Good Case Research Method
300
The popular name for the case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court and caused the furor over the state of the publication/availability of federal regulations.
What is "The Hot Oil Case"?
300
Interpretation of: P.L. 108-425
What is the 425th public law passed by the 108th Congress?
300
An electronic database that specializes in older law review articles and provides the articles in PDF format.
What is Hein Online?
300
An attorney who presents primary legal authority to a court without having used a citator to update and verify the validity of the authority could be accused of this serious offense.
What is legal malpractice?
400
Two different and distinct types of legal research tools to find cites to cases
What is: - Using an annotated code - Entering search terms in Westlaw, Lexis, or other online case law databases - Using secondary sources (ALRs, legal encyclopedias, law reviews, treatises) - Using citators (Shepard's, Keycite) to find subsequent cases that discuss your case
400
This is how statutes and regulations are related.
What is Statutes enable/provide the authority for agencies to promulgate Regulations?
400
Federal laws (public laws) are printed in this official government publication, in chronological order.
What is Statutes at Large?
400
This is how ALRs differ from law review articles:
What is: - ALRs are objective? OR - ALRs have a table of jurisdictions?
400
Your goal in most legal research will be to locate _________, _________ _________.
What is primary, mandatory authority?