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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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1 | (60) |
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The Lay of the Land: the Importance of Legal Research, Legal Authorities, and Research Media |
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3 | (21) |
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3 | (2) |
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The Importance of Legal Research |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (13) |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (11) |
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19 | (1) |
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19 | (3) |
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The Approach of This Book |
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22 | (2) |
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From Curiosity to Closure: Eight Cognitive Tasks |
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24 | (37) |
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24 | (1) |
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Client-Centered Curiosity |
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25 | (11) |
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Learn and React to Your Client's Situation |
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26 | (1) |
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Develop Research Terms and Research Issues |
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27 | (1) |
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Understanding Legal Language |
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27 | (2) |
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Generating Research Terms |
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29 | (3) |
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Using Dictionaries and Thesauri |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (3) |
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36 | (3) |
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List and Rank Potential Authorities |
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36 | (2) |
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38 | (1) |
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Consultation and Creativity |
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39 | (19) |
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Use Your Terms and Issues to Locate Pertinent Passages |
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40 | (14) |
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54 | (1) |
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Research Backwards and Forwards from Major Authorities |
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55 | (3) |
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58 | (3) |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (2) |
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Unit II Secondary Authorities |
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61 | (60) |
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62 | (1) |
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63 | (7) |
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63 | (4) |
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Why Are Encyclopedias Useful? |
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67 | (1) |
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How Do You Research in Encyclopedias? |
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67 | (2) |
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67 | (2) |
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69 | (1) |
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How Do You Cite Encyclopedias? |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (9) |
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70 | (1) |
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Why Are Treatises Useful? |
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71 | (1) |
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How Do You Research in Treatises? |
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71 | (6) |
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71 | (6) |
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77 | (1) |
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How Do You Cite Treatises? |
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77 | (2) |
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79 | (12) |
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What Is a Legal Periodical? |
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79 | (2) |
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Why Are Legal Periodical Articles Useful? |
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81 | (3) |
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How Do You Research in Legal Periodicals? |
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84 | (4) |
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Traditional periodicals research involving an index |
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84 | (2) |
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Periodicals in full-text key-word searching |
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86 | (2) |
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Citating periodical articles |
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88 | (1) |
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88 | (2) |
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How Do You Cite Legal Periodicals? |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (12) |
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What Are American Law Reports (A.L.R.) Annontations? |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (2) |
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How Do You Research in A.L.R.? |
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94 | (7) |
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94 | (7) |
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A.L.R. in LexisNexis and Westlaw |
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101 | (1) |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (14) |
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What Are the Restatements? |
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103 | (7) |
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Why Are Restatements Useful? |
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110 | (1) |
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How Do You Research in Restatements? |
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110 | (5) |
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110 | (2) |
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Cases referring to the Restatements in paper |
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112 | (3) |
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Restatements in Westlaw and LexisNexis |
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115 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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How Do You Cite Restatements? |
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116 | (1) |
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Additional Secondary Authorities and Strategy |
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117 | (4) |
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Additional Secondary Authorities |
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117 | (1) |
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Research Strategy for Secondary Authorities |
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118 | (3) |
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Choosing Among Secondary Authorities |
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118 | (2) |
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Deciding Whether to Cite Secondary Authorities |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (66) |
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122 | (1) |
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Reporters, Digests, and Their Alternatives |
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123 | (48) |
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123 | (8) |
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How Does a Case Come to Be Decided? |
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123 | (1) |
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How Are Court Systems Structured? |
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124 | (1) |
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What Does a Published Case Look Like? |
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124 | (7) |
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Why Would You Research Which Cases? |
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131 | (7) |
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The Common Law, Stare Decisis, and Precedent |
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131 | (1) |
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Mandatory versus Persuasive Precedent: Federalism, Jurisdiction, and Level of Court |
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132 | (1) |
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Federalism and Jurisdiction |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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History and Treatment of the Case |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (2) |
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137 | (1) |
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How Do You Research Cases? |
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138 | (27) |
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Cases through West digests and reporters |
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139 | (12) |
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151 | (6) |
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157 | (7) |
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Cases through court websites |
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164 | (1) |
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165 | (3) |
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168 | (2) |
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170 | (1) |
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171 | (16) |
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What Is a Case Citator, and Why Would You Use It? |
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171 | (2) |
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How Do You Use Case Citators? |
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173 | (11) |
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184 | (3) |
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187 | (78) |
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188 | (1) |
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189 | (36) |
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What Are Constitutions and Statutes? |
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189 | (10) |
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189 | (3) |
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192 | (6) |
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How Does Enacted Law Relate to Case Law? |
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198 | (1) |
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198 | (1) |
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Why Would You Research Constitutions and Statutes? |
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199 | (1) |
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How Do You Research Constitutions and Statutes? |
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200 | (21) |
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Statutes in annotated codes in paper |
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202 | (11) |
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Statutes in session laws in paper |
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213 | (2) |
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Statutes in commercial electronic services |
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215 | (4) |
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Statutes via public websites |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (1) |
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How Do you Cite Constitutions and Statutes? |
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222 | (1) |
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223 | (2) |
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Legislative Process Materials |
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225 | (40) |
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Introduction: The Legislative Process |
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225 | (3) |
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225 | (1) |
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226 | (2) |
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228 | (32) |
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What Are Legislative History Materials? |
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228 | (10) |
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Why Would You Research Legislative History Materials? |
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238 | (1) |
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How Do You Research Legislative History? |
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239 | (2) |
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Legislative history in statutory codes |
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241 | (2) |
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Legislative history in United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (U.S.C.C.A.N.) |
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243 | (2) |
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Compiled legislative histories |
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245 | (2) |
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Legislative history materials through LexisNexis Congressional and Congressional Information Service |
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247 | (9) |
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Legislative history through THOMAS |
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256 | (2) |
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258 | (1) |
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How Do You Cite Legislative Materials? |
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259 | (1) |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (4) |
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Unit V Administrative Materials |
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265 | (60) |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (24) |
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267 | (1) |
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Why Would You Research Regulations? |
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268 | (2) |
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How Do You Research Regulations? |
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270 | (19) |
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Regulations research in statutes |
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271 | (4) |
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Regulations in a regulatory code (Code of Federal Regulations) |
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275 | (5) |
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Regulations in an administrative register (Federal Register) |
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280 | (6) |
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Regulations in agency websites |
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286 | (1) |
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Regulations research in case law |
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286 | (3) |
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289 | (1) |
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How Do You Cite Regulations? |
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290 | (1) |
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291 | (17) |
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What Is an Agency Decision? |
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291 | (6) |
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Why Would You Research Agency Decisions? |
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297 | (1) |
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How Do You Research Agency Decisions? |
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297 | (10) |
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Agency decisions research in statutes and regulations |
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298 | (2) |
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Agency decisions in the agency's own compilation---reporter or database |
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300 | (1) |
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Updating and validating agency decisions |
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301 | (6) |
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307 | (1) |
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How Do You Cite Agency Decisions? |
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307 | (1) |
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308 | (17) |
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What Are Mini-Libraries, and Why Are They Useful? |
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308 | (1) |
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How Do You Research in Mini-Libraries? |
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309 | (13) |
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Administrative materials in paper looseleaf services |
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309 | (9) |
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Options for administrative materials research in electronic mini-libraries |
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318 | (4) |
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322 | (1) |
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How Do You Cite to Mini-Libraries? |
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322 | (3) |
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Unit VI Rules of Procedure and Legal Ethics |
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325 | (40) |
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326 | (1) |
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327 | (17) |
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What Are Rules of Procedure? |
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327 | (9) |
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Why Would You Research Rules of Procedure? |
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336 | (1) |
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How Do You Research Rules of Procedure? |
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336 | (4) |
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337 | (3) |
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340 | (3) |
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How Do You Cite Rules of Procedure? |
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343 | (1) |
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Rules of Professional Responsibility |
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344 | (21) |
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What Are Rules of Professional Responsibility? |
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344 | (6) |
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Why Would You Research Rules of Professional Responsibility? |
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350 | (1) |
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How Do You Research Rules of Professional Responsibility? |
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350 | (13) |
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352 | (11) |
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363 | (1) |
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How Do You Cite Rules of Professional Responsibility? |
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363 | (2) |
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365 | (14) |
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Developing an Integrated Research Strategy |
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367 | (12) |
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Introduction: The apARTment Problem |
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367 | (1) |
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368 | (8) |
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369 | (1) |
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369 | (2) |
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371 | (1) |
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Researching for apARTment |
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372 | (1) |
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372 | (3) |
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375 | (1) |
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376 | (3) |
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RESEARCH SITUATIONS AND PRACTICE SETS |
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379 | (92) |
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Research Situations for Unit I Eight Cognitive Tasks and Unit II Secondary Authorities |
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381 | (28) |
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Practice Set for Chapter 2 From Curiosity to Closure: Eight Cognitive Tasks |
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387 | (4) |
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Practice Set for Chapter 3 Encyclopedias |
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391 | (2) |
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Practice Set for Chapter 4 Treatises |
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393 | (4) |
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Practice Set for Chapter 5 Legal Periodicals |
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397 | (4) |
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Practice Set for Chapter 6 A.L.R. Annotations |
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401 | (4) |
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Practice Set for Chapter 7 Restatements |
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405 | (4) |
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Research Situation and Background Reading for Unit III Case Law and Unit IV Enacted Law (State Statutes) |
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409 | (26) |
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First Practice Set for Chapter 9 Paper Reporters and Digests |
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415 | (4) |
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Second Practice Set for Chapter 9 Electronic Research in Case Law |
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419 | (4) |
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Practice Set for Chapter 10 Case Citators |
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423 | (4) |
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First Practice Set for Chapter 11 State Paper Codes and Session Laws |
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427 | (4) |
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Second Practice Set for Chapter 11 Electronic Research in State Statutes |
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431 | (4) |
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Research Situations and Practice Sets for Unit IV Chapters 11 and 12 Enacted Law (Federal Statutes) |
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435 | (12) |
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Third Practice Set for Chapter 11 Federal Codes and Session Laws |
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439 | (4) |
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Practice Set for Chapter 12 Legislative Process Materials |
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443 | (4) |
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Research Situations and Practice Set for Unit V Chapters 13, 14, 15 Administrative Materials |
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447 | (10) |
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Practice Set for Unit V Administrative Materials |
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451 | (6) |
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Research Situation and Practice Set for Unit VI Chapter 16 Rules of Procedure |
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457 | (6) |
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Practice Set for Chapter 16 Rules of Procedure |
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459 | (4) |
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Research Situation and Practice Set for Unit VI Chapter 17 Rules of Professional Responsibility |
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463 | (8) |
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Practice Set for Chapter 17 Rules of Professional Responsibility |
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465 | (6) |
Index |
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