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- 5. This kind of authority will give you a summary of the law and citations to primary authority
- 6. The number of federal circuits
- 8. The official reporter for decisions from the New York Court of Appeals
- 10. This reporter contains state court decisions from several states
- 11. Cite this reporter when citing United States Supreme Court decisions
- 14. To point the reader to a specific page that relates to the cited materials, use a ---- cite, otherwise known as a pinpoint citation
- 16. These are the updates which can be found in the book version of codes or encyclopedia
- 19. When the United States Supreme Court agrees to hear a case it grants this
- 20. Two citators to the same case are -------- citations
- 22. This secondary source is written by scholars in the field and may be cited as persuasive secondary authority
- 23. This an electronic service provides electronic access to legal periodicals in PDF format
- 24. This is the federal annotated code
- 26. The ------ history of the case refers to all of the opinions issued in conjunction with a single piece of litigation
- 27. This unofficial reporter contains decisions of the New York Court of Appeals
- 29. The name of the New York annotated code
- 31. Cases and statutes are ------- authority
- 32. You can update and validate your research results by using this tool either on Lexis Advance or WestlawNext
- 34. This specialized version of Google's search engine allows you to search for legal documents and legal periodicals
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- 1. The trial level court in the federal system is called the federal -------- court
- 2. The West Key Number System is not a secondary source, it is a ------- tool
- 3. This Table in the Bluebook will show you how to abbreviate words in case names
- 4. Summaries of points of law from cases which can be found on Lexis Advance or WestlawNext
- 5. This court is binding authority on federal district courts in New York
- 7. "American --- Reports"
- 8. These summaries of cases appear after the statute in the annotated code
- 9. The unofficial reporter for New York is called the New York ----------
- 12. When parallel cites are required, this citation comes first
- 13. This short form should never be used when citing to primary authority
- 15. This citator can be found on WestlawNext
- 17. When a later decision by the same court explicitly repudiates its earlier decision, the earlier decision is ---------
- 18. This reporter contains decisions from the federal circuit court of appeals
- 21. Use this table when you know the name of a statute but you do not know its citation
- 25. This is the proper way to abbreviate a federal circuit court
- 28. This citator can be found on Lexis Advance
- 30. Use this short for when citing to the immediately preceding authority
- 33. This abbreviation signifies that the source is an encyclopedia