Legal Research 2
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What are the two legal encyclopedias for CA?
Which is cited in legal opinions?
Who publishes each? -
Witkin's Summary of California Law (often cited in legal opinions)
California Jurisprudence - What are the official reporters for the three levels of Federal Courts?
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Supreme Court: United States Reports
Appeals Courts: Federal Reporter
Distric Courts: Federal Supplement -
What are the three unoffical Supreme Court Reporters?
Who publishes each? -
Supreme Court Reporter (West)
United States Supreme Court Lawyers' Edition (Lexis)
United States Law Week (Bureau of National Affairs) - What are the two general legal encyclopedias? Who publishes each?
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Corpus Juris Secundum (West)
American Jurisprudence 2d (West) - Name the four main types of Legal Periodicals.
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Academic Law Reviews
Commercial Journals
Bar Associations
Legal Newspapers -
What are the seven major periodical indexes?
How is each distinguished from the others? -
Jones-Chipman: early articles to 1937
Index to Legal Periodicals: articles since 1908
Current Law Index: recent articles since 1980
LegalTrac: has CLI and legal newspapers, presented online.
Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law: articles since 1958. Covers material not in CLI or ILP.
Current Index to Legal Periodicals: Weekly subject index of new articles
Index to Foregn Legal Periodicals: Articles dealing with International Law, Comparative Law, etc. - Who publishes the Restatements?
- American Law Institute
- What is the name of the citation index for the Restatements?
- Shephard's REstatment of the Law Citations
- Name the one specialty case reporter.
- American Law Reports
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What are the unofficial and official CA court reporters?
Who publishes the unofficial one? -
Unofficial: California Reporter (West)
Official SC: California Reports
Official Appelate: California Appellate Reports -
What are the regional reporters?
Name them. -
Regional reporters are state court reports, organized by region. They are:
Northeastern Reporter
Northwestern Reporter
Southeastern Reporter
Southwestern Reporter
Atlantic Reporter
Pacific Reporter
Southern Reporter -
What are the two Special Subject Reporters?
Who publishes each? -
Bankruptcy Reporter (West)
Federal Rules Decisions (West) -
What is a Digest?
Who publishes them? -
Index of references to reported court cases, organized by subject.
Published by West. -
What are the Federal Digests?
Why are there multiple ones? -
There are five because they were published at different times (and thus have different coverage over time):
Federal Digest (all through 1938)
Modern Federal Practice Digest (1939-1961)
Federal Practice Digest 2nd (1962-1974), 3rd (1975-4th), 4th (no dates) -
What are the three Digests published for specific courts?
Who publishes them? -
US Supreme Court Digest (West)
US Supreme COurt Digest, Lawyers' Edition (Lexis)
Bankruptcy Digest (West) - What is the West Key Number System?
- It is a subject classification scheme that indexes decisions that are reported in the National Reporter System by subject.
- What are the different types of Digests?
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Specific Court Digests
Federal Digests
National Digests
Regional Digests
State Digests
Specialty Topic Digests -
What is the most comprehensive Digest system?
How is it organized? -
The American Digest System
up until 1896: Century Digest
after that, every ten years as the Decennial Digest System. Each has a title like "Third Decennial" - What are the digests in the Regional Digest System?
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Atlantic Digest
North Western Digest
Pacific Digest
South Eastern Digest - What are the three states that don't have state digests?
- Nevada, Utah, and Delaware
- What are the three methods of researching Digests?
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Descriptive Word Method (Descriptive Word Index)
Analysis or Topic Method
Table of Cases Method - What is the only Digest not published by West, aside from specialty digests?
- U.S. Supreme Court Digest, Lawyers' Edition
- What is the only West-published digest that is not part of the West Key Number System?
- Century Digest
- What are the types of Shepard's Citators?
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State Citators
Regional Reporter Citators
Federal Citators
Topical Citators -
What is covered in non-topical Shephard's Citators?
Name each. -
State Citators (e.g. California Citations): Court Decisions, Constitutions, Statutes, and Court Rules
Regional Reporter Citators (e.g. Northwestern Citations): Court Decisions for corresponding regions.
United States Citations: Court Decisions, US Constitution, U.S. Code, and federal court rules.
Federal Citations: Two parts. Court cases for the Federal Reporter, and court cases for the federal supplement. - What is the basic process for how a bill becomes a law?
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Introduced
Referred to Committee
- Hearings
- Committee Reports
Reported to House/Senate
- Debates
Vote
If passed, repeat above for other House/Senate
Conference Committee
Sent to President, where it may be
- signed
- become law w/out signature
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What are the four publications for Federal Legislative History?
Who publishes each? -
Congressional Index (Congressional Clearing House)
CIS (Congressional Information Service)
GPO Monthly Catalog (GPO)
United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (West) - How are Federal and California Session Laws published?
- Chronologically, with a subject index.
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What are the publications for Federal Session Laws?
Who publishes each? -
Statutes at Large (official)
U.S. Code Congressional & Administrative News (West) -
What are the publications for CA Session Laws?
Who publishes each? -
Statutes and Amendments to the Codes (official)
West's and Deering's Advance Legislative Service (West and Deering) -
What are the publications for the Federal Code?
Who publishes each? -
United States Code (official - GPO)
United States Code Annotated (West)
United States Code Service (Lexis) -
What are the publications for the California Code?
Who publishes each? -
West's Annotated California Codes (West)
Deering's California Codes, Annotated (Lexis) -
What are the publications for Federal Administrative Law?
Who publishes each?
How do they tie together? -
Federal Register (official, chronological, daily)
Unified Agenda (official, biannual, collects all agency rulemaking activity)
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR, official, topical, annual)
GPOAccess.gov (official)
The Federal Register is a daily publication that lists CFR sections affected. -
What are the publications for CA Administrative Law?
Who publishes each?
How do they tie together? -
Barclay's Official California Code of Regulation (Barclay's)
California Regulatory Code Supplement (Barclay's)
California Regulatory Notice Register (official)
The Supplement updates Barclay's Official CA Code. The Register (Z Register) is a weekly update of proposed actions - What is the agency regulates Administrative Law in CA?
- Office of Administrative Law
- What publications are updates with Advance Sheets?
- Court Reporters
- What do you call a bill when it is finally signed into law?
- chaptered bill
- What agency maintains the CA legislative website?
- Office of the Legislative Counsel
- How are the California Codes updated?
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Annual Pocket Parts
Advance Legislative Service - What is the Advance Legislative Service for the USCA?
- The USCCAN United States Code Congressional Administrative News (West) reprints Federal session laws, thus serving as an ALS for the West version of the US Code (USCA.)
- USCCAN is split between two sets of books. What are they?
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1) Federal Session Laws
2) Selected Federal Legislative History - What is a CFR List of Sections Affected Table?
- Monthly publications that indexes sections of the CFR to pages in the Federal Register where those sections may have been affected by recent activity.
- Where is the OAL's mandate codified in statute?
- Administrative Procedures Act
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What are the analagous publications for Federal and CA Administrative law for the following?
- the topical publication
- the chronological publication
- regulation tracking -
Federal:
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Federal Register
- Unified Agenda
CA
- Barclay's Official California Code of Regulations
- California Regulatory Notice Register (Z Register)
- Rulemaking Calendar - What is the difference between California Reports and the California Reporter?
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California Reports: Official (goes back to 1959)
California Reporter: West (goes back to 1950)