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What is a digest
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it breaks down into topics cases and judicial decisions
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What are two national encyclopedias?
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AMJUR and CJS
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How do you update your research? ONline? print?
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online through Shepards and Key Cite and on print through pocket parts
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two reasons to use secondary sources?
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to get more information on a topic. They lead you to primary sources. Legal periodicals lead you to underdeveloped sections of law
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secondary source that provides summaries of cases to provide an overview of a subject?
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ALR- they analyze specific issues and provide cases that discuss it.
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UNiform Commercial code and Model Penal Code are two examples of what?
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Uniform laws Model Acts
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What is the national reporter series?
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its a pubication that divides the states into 7 different regions. Ohio is in the northeastern reporter. It reports state court decision for the particular states in the region.
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What is the publication that is a chronological listing of all statutes passed within a congressional session?
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U.S. Statutes at large
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Federal organization of courts?
district court is the equivalent of a trial court, an intermediate ourt or a court of last resort? |
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals District Court. The district court is equivalent of the trial court. |
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what is the publication that is chronological listing of all judicial decisions?
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case reporter
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Official Publisher of codes?
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USC updated every 6 years
contains only the text of the law |
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Unofficial Publisher of codes?
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USCA- West
USCS-lexis contains both the law and other research references |
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What is a pinpoint citation?
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also caled a pincite. contains not only the page that the citations starts in but the specific pg. number being cited to.
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What is the Congrsessional record?
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permanent edition: is edited
the loose leaf edition/daily edition: records senate and house of representatives decisions. Provides insight into the discussions of statutes. It has an H or and S in front of the page number. |
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what happens if you need to research eminent domain for your client? where do you go first?
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I would go to American Jursiprudence then Ohio Jurisprudence to see what they say about Eminent domain in general and then look to see what statutes it refers to and go find them. I could find statutes in USCA or USCS
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