Legal Citation Self-Quiz
For the next three questions, use the following assumption:
Assume one judicial decision quotes another judicial decision and offers as the citation: 428 N.Y. 236, 237 (1966). |
For the next
three questions, use the following assumption:
Assume one judicial decision quotes another judicial decision and offers as the citation: 428 N.Y. 236, 237 (1966). On what page number does the decision begin? |
On what page
number is the pinpoint cite?
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In which volume
is the decision reported?
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Susan, an
attorney who specializes in the federal Constitution, wishes to review
Marbury v. Madison, a judicial decision issued by the Supreme Court of
the United States. In which bound volume will she be able to find the
text of the decision?
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Now Susan
is concerned with finding the text to decisions that have cited Marbury
v. Madison. She is specifically concerned with finding decisions from
the United States Courts of Appeals. Susan has a list of case names and
knows they are from the United States Courts of Appeals. She also know
that she can find the proper citations if she looks in the proper table
of cases in the reporter that contains decisions from the United States
Courts of Appeals. In which reporter should she look?
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Susan is also
concerned with certain decisions from the United States District Courts.
She has a list of both case names and citations, but one column of all
of the case citations has been smudged so that all she sees is the name
of the case, the volume and page numbers of the citations. In which reporter
will she find the decisions she seeks?
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While working
on a high-profile case concerning the federal Clean Air Act, Amanda comes
across citations to regulations passed by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency. Wishing to review the final, codified regulations,
Amanda goes to her local law library but forgets in which publication
the regulations are contained. As the law librarian, to which publication
would you refer Amanda?
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Finding the
regulation most pertinent to her case, Amanda wants to review the original
draft of the regulation, as well as the comments the agency received in
response to their notice of proposed rulemaking. Again, as the law librarian,
in which publication would you advise Amanda continue this next leg of
her research?
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