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45 Cards in this Set
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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What are the two general legal encyclopedias? Who publishes each?
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Corpus Juris Secundum (West)
American Jurisprudence 2d (West) |
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Name the four main types of Legal Periodicals.
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Academic Law Reviews
Commercial Journals Bar Associations Legal Newspapers |
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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. |
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Who publishes the Restatements?
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American Law Institute
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What is the name of the citation index for the Restatements?
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Shephard's REstatment of the Law Citations
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Name the one specialty case reporter.
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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 |
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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 |
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What are the two Special Subject Reporters?
Who publishes each? |
Bankruptcy Reporter (West)
Federal Rules Decisions (West) |
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What is a Digest?
Who publishes them? |
Index of references to reported court cases, organized by subject.
Published by West. |
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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) |
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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) |
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What is the West Key Number System?
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It is a subject classification scheme that indexes decisions that are reported in the National Reporter System by subject.
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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 |
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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" |
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What are the digests in the Regional Digest System?
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Atlantic Digest
North Western Digest Pacific Digest South Eastern Digest |
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What are the three states that don't have state digests?
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Nevada, Utah, and Delaware
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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 |
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What is the only Digest not published by West, aside from specialty digests?
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U.S. Supreme Court Digest, Lawyers' Edition
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What is the only West-published digest that is not part of the West Key Number System?
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Century Digest
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What are the types of Shepard's Citators?
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State Citators
Regional Reporter Citators Federal Citators Topical Citators |
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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. |
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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 - vetoed, in which case it can be passed anyway w/ 2/3 vote. |
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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) |
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How are Federal and California Session Laws published?
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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What are the publications for the California Code?
Who publishes each? |
West's Annotated California Codes (West)
Deering's California Codes, Annotated (Lexis) |
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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. |
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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 |
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What is the agency regulates Administrative Law in CA?
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Office of Administrative Law
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What publications are updates with Advance Sheets?
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Court Reporters
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What do you call a bill when it is finally signed into law?
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chaptered bill
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What agency maintains the CA legislative website?
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Office of the Legislative Counsel
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How are the California Codes updated?
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Annual Pocket Parts
Advance Legislative Service |
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What is the Advance Legislative Service for the USCA?
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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.)
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USCCAN is split between two sets of books. What are they?
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1) Federal Session Laws
2) Selected Federal Legislative History |
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What is a CFR List of Sections Affected Table?
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Monthly publications that indexes sections of the CFR to pages in the Federal Register where those sections may have been affected by recent activity.
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Where is the OAL's mandate codified in statute?
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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 |
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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) |