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Hodge Podge
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What's that Called?
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All Kinds of Stuff
100
Of a resource library, a law library, a reference library or a source library the one that's dedicated to the legal resource material.
What is the resource library?
100
Digest
What is the topical index to case reporters?
100
Online searching using connectors between key words
What is Boolean search?
100
The entity or person for whom a memorandum of law is written
Who is the requesting attorney?
100
The supreme law of the land
What is the Constitution
200
Of treatises, code books, case reporters or encyclopedias, the one where cases are presented in full.
What are case reporters?
200
Statutory Law
What is law made by legislative?
200
A short summary of a reported case
What is a case brief?
200
What the acronym IRAC stands for
What is Issue, Reasoning, Application and Conclusion?
200
In the facts section of your case brief, you should only include this
What is facts relevant to the decision?
300
The proper name of the parties, the volume and year, and the court name of a published case
What is a citation?
300
The court’s answer to the issue presented and the action taken
What is the holding?
300
Cause of Action
What is the basis upon which a lawsuit may be brought?
300
All federal laws begin with this
What is a bill?
400
The official reporter of U.S. Supreme Court opinions
What is the United States Reports?
400
Of a case reporter, a code book, a restatement of law, a state constitutions, the one that is an example of a secondary source
What is a Restatement of Law?
400
The part of a case brief written in IRAC format that includes the law cited by the court
What is the rules?
400
Judicial History
What is the part of a reported case that discusses how the case traveled through the courts?
400
This can be cited as evidence of what the legislature meant to accomplish in passing a bill
What is the legislative history?
500
Case law from another state
What is persuasive authority?
500
The seven reporters that cover the case law of a number of states
What are the Regional Reporters?
500
The part of the case brief that contains the court’s rationale for its ultimate resolution
What is the analysis?
500
Judicial History
What is the part of a reported case that discusses how the case traveled through the courts?
500
Updates to a printed code publication are found in this
What are pocket parts?