Legal
Research Class Notes
On
Thursday we will review, and on Friday we will go over student questions. Submit questions to McDade before that.
The
exam will be 60% like the quiz questions from class. 40% will be an essay that will take 20-25
minutes. It will have a legal research
problem like the ones we’ve been doing.
The essay will ask us what steps we would take to solve the problem.
Assignment
5 is due next Friday.
No redoes
on Assignment 3!
Uniform
laws – National Conference of Commissioners
This
includes stuff like the Model Penal Code and the UCC. They can be adopted by different jurisdictions,
but they are only law insofar as
How
can we check if other states have adopted uniform laws? You can check the Uniform Laws Annotated,
which has all the uniform laws. Then you
would have to check state codes in order to see if and how states have adopted
these laws.
Quizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!
What
does the Federal Register contain?
It has executive orders, regulations, proposed regulations, notices of
hearings and presidential proclamations.
What’s
the different between the Federal Supplement and the Pacific Reporter? The Pacific Reporter is regional, while the
Federal Supplement is a federal reporter.
Where
can you find a statute or regulation online besides Lexis or Westlaw? You can look at GPO Access.
Bluebook
stuff
You
aren’t allowed to use the Bluebook on the exam.
You must memorize the stuff in it!
Bluebooking
exercise!
1. 43 U.S.C. § 89
(2000).
2. 21 C.F.R. §
201.2 (2003).
3.
4.
5. 68 Fed. Reg.
47,221 (
6. Koppenal v.
Nepera, Inc., 74 F.Supp.2d 409 (S.D.N.Y. 1999).
What
you put in the parentheses is the most complicated thing there is.
First
name first when you put a name! This ain’t
undergrad anymore!
If
you cite to a federal reporter, you need to put the federal court that tried
the case in the parentheses.
No
comma before the left parenthesis!