legal research, how to find and understand the law 14th (2007)

[...]... Summaries How to Use the Law Library to Find a State Statute or Amendment Passed Within the Past Year 109 How to Find Federal Regulations 124 How to Find State Regulations in the Law Library 128 How to Shepardize Federal Statutes 168 How to Shepardize State Statutes 168 How to Find Federal Cases When the Citation Is Unknown 172 How to Find U.S Supreme Court Cases When the Citation... detail on finding state regulations online and in the law library I want to find an ordinance passed by a particular city or county (local laws) Your best bet for finding city and county ordinances is FindLaw Go to the FindLaw link for state laws (www findlaw.com/casecode/) Scroll down to the list of U.S State Laws and click the relevant state The next web page should provide available city and county... out, while the novice too easily ­ ecomes convinced b that the whole thing is hopeless ­ ortunately, this book— F and many law librarians—are there to help the strug­ ling g legal researcher How to Find (and Feel at Home in) a Law Library Before you can do legal research, you need access to good research tools The best tools are still found primarily in law libraries, although sometimes legal research... online and in the law library I want to find a federal statute (law enacted by Congress and signed by the president) The most direct route is to use the FindLaw website (www findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/), which permits you to search federal laws (organized in the U.S Codes) by title, section, or keyword You can also use the Google search engine When using Google, provide the literal name or number of the. .. enactments— statutes and rules and ends with court decisions that interpret them You too should usually deal with the statu­ tory material first and the cases second We show you how to research statutes in Chapter 6 However, some important areas of the law are developed primarily in the courts the law of torts (personal in­uries) j is a good example If you have a tort problem and the background resource... yourself; or • You may want to know what the law itself says because you are trying to answer a specific legal question If you are searching for the law for the first reason, your research will be self-limiting—that is, you will search for the appropriate law source, find the law source and read the law source, period In Chapters 6 and 9, we provide examples of how to find statutes and cases online If you... way to deal with any feelings of intimi­ ation d is to recall your early experiences with the public library ­Remember how the strangeness of all the book shelves, the catalog and the reference desk rather quickly gave way to an easy familiarity with how they all fit together? Your e ­ xperience with law libraries will similarly pass from fear to mastery in a very short time Helping you understand the. .. learning legal research techniques, you may just want to find specific items such as statutes, cases, regulations or plain-English overviews of legal topics Here are some quick tips on using the Internet to find and read these and other law- related materials Each quick tip section contains a cross-reference to the part of this book that handles the particular task in more detail I want to use Google and other... Special Tools and Resources Unique to Your State This book focuses on the legal research resource tools that are common to the 50 states and are found in the great majority of law libraries We also discuss some of the r ­ esources particular to the more populous states There are, however, a number of special state-specific tools and resources that we don’t mention So in addition to using the major legal research... federal agencies) The FindLaw website is a good place to start FindLaw provides a searching system for the federal code of regulations (www.findlaw.com/casecode/cfr.html) See Chapter 6 for more detail on finding federal regulations online and in the law library I want to find a state regulation (rules issued by state agencies) You’ll find many state regs by using FindLaw (www.findlaw com/casecode/state.html) . 180 Summaries How to Use the Law Library to Find a State Statute or Amendment Passed Within the Past Year 109 How to Find Federal Regulations 124 How to Find State Regulations in the Law Library 128 How. (local laws). Your best bet for finding city and county ordinances is FindLaw. Go to the FindLaw link for state laws (www. findlaw.com/casecode/). Scroll down to the list of U.S. State Laws and. Up -to- Date 156 The Newest Cases 157 Publishing Cases on the Internet 158 9 Finding Cases Interpreting Case Citations 162 How to Find Cases in the Law Library 164 How to Find State Cases on the