Cases
Atlanta is located within this federal appeals court's jurisdiction.
What is the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit?
The branch of government where regulations come from.
What is the Executive Branch?
Because they are not actual law, secondary sources are always this kind of authority.
What is persuasive authority?
O.C.G.A. ยง 1-3-1 is a citation to this publication.
What is the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Georgia's statutory code)?
The volumes where cases are published.
What are reporters?
Tool used to locate a statute by searching for topics alphabetically.
What is the index?
This official publication contains proposed and final regulations of federal administrative agencies in chronological order.
What is the Federal Register?
AmJur, CJS, and Ga. Jur. are all examples of this kind of source which has broad, shallow coverage of many legal research topics.
What is a Legal Encyclopedia?
42 U.S.C. 1983 is a citation to this publication.
What is the United States Code?
Feature available in Westlaw that organizes cases with the same or similar legal issues in any jurisdiction in the United States.
What are Topic and Key Numbers?
This type of code provides references to both primary and secondary sources in addition to the text of the statutes.
What is an annotated code?
Legislation that defines the scope of an agency's mission and empowers it to perform its functions.
What is enabling legislation or an enabling act?
(will also accept "What is the authority note?")
This source contains articles called "annotations" that provide summaries of cases from a variety of jurisdictions.
What is "American Law Reports"?
90 FR 18943 is a citation to this publication.
What is the Federal Register?
Names of the citators for Westlaw and Lexis.
What are KeyCite and Shepard's?
When a federal statute becomes law, it is first published individually in this form.
What is a slip law or public law?
This official publication contains the codified regulations of the federal administrative agencies.
What is the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)?
This source is typically published in a scholarly journal and focuses on narrow issues of law.
What is a law review article?
550 U.S. 618 is a citation to this kind of source.
What is a Supreme Court case?
Georgia cases are included in this West case regional reporter.
What is the South Eastern Reporter?
Statutory codes are organized by topic and this is the name for the broadest, top-level of this organization.
What are titles?
The note that tells where a regulation was first published in the Federal Register.
What is the source note?
Corbin on Contracts is an example of this kind of scholarly book focused on one legal topic and written by an expert in the field.
What is a treatise?
56 A.L.R. Fed. 895 (1982) is a citation to this source.
What is an American Law Report?