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Legal Research Exam #1 Chapters 1-3 1. The preliminary process of gathering the facts includes:  Gathering all the relevant facts, organizing the facts, Weighing the facts, identifying the key facts 2. The United States Code Annotated is the official code of the laws of the United States.  False 3. Laws passed by Congress is commonly referred to as statutory law rather than by common law.  True 4. As used in the test, enacted law includes:  Regulations adopted by administrative bodies, Statutes, Ordinances. 5. The highest legal authority in a jurisdiction is the:  Constitution 6. Laws passed by local governing bodies, such as a city council, are usually referred to as:  Ordinances 7. The doctrine of stare decisis lower courts to follow the decision of a higher court in a jurisdiction in cases involving similar issues and facts  True 8. Personal jurisdiction is the extent of a court’s authority to hear and resolve specific disputes.  False 9. The law that applies to the issue(s) raised in a client’s case may be:  An ordinance, A constitutional provision, A statute, A regulation 10. A constitution is not an example of enacted law.  False 11. Most state laws are initially published in pamphlets, similar to the federal slip laws.  True 12. The commonly used approach to legal analysis involves three steps.  False 13. Examples of primary authority are:  Ordinances, Court Opinions 14. The United States Code Annotated:  Has general index, Is updated with pocket parts. 15. Decisions of the highest court in a state are examples of common law.  True 16. The conclusion step of the analytical process presents the application of the law to the facts of the client’s case  False 17. Which of the following are parts of step 3 of the IRAC process?  Identification of the elements of the rule of law 18. In regard to subject matter jurisdiction, the basic types of courts are courts of:  Limited jurisdiction, General jurisdiction 19. Annotations often include cross-references to other statutes.  True

20. Statutory annotations usually include:  A history section, Official comments on the section, Research references, Notes to decisions 21. The scope section includes the short title and what is specifically covered in the statute.  False 22. One of the objects of legal analysis is to identify the issue raised by the facts of the client’s case.  True 23. Identification of the law governing the dispute is the first step of the analytical process.  False 24. A properly stated issue requires the inclusion of the key facts and the background facts.  False 25. The United States District Courts are the main trial courts in the federal system.  True 26. Step 4 of the analytical process may include:  A discussion of how a court may rule on the issue, Identification of additional fact that may be necessary, identification of related issues or concerns, Identification of further research that may be necessary. 27. Federal administrative law is published in the:  Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations 28. The object of legal analysis and legal research is to determine:  The legal issue raised by the facts, What law governs the legal issue, How the law applies to the facts, What legal remedy is available 29. A court of appeals may:  Review the record of the trial court. 30. Usually, court rules are separated into the following division(s)  Civil procedure, Criminal procedure Legal Research Exam 2 Chapters 4-6 1. Which of the following is not mentioned in the text as a reason for reading and analyzing court opinions?  To locate additional primary and secondary authority 2. A legal Encyclopedia provides a summary, critique, and analysis of the law.  False 3. Secondary authority is a source that a court may rely on that is not the law.  True 4. The body of a court opinion includes:  Facts of the case, Prior proceedings, The court’s reasoning 5. ALR annotations include:  The text of leading state and federal court opinions, An analysis of specific issues raised in leading opinions, Research references 6. Most treatises are available on Westlaw and LexisNexis for free.  False

7. Law reviews usually include:  Notes and comments, Book Reviews 8. Treatises may consist of a single volume or multiple volumes.  True 9. Most treatises have which of the following features?  A narrative presentation of a subject matter, A table of cases. 10. Common law may be created when a court decision makes new law.  True 11. Court decisions available through court Web sites are referred to as parallel citations.  False 12. Beginning with Restatement Second, cumulative appendix volumes have been added.  False 13. The decisions of the United States Supreme Court are published in the following set(s):  Supreme Court Reporter, United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers’ Edition, United States Reports. 14. Which of the following is a legal encyclopedia?  American Jurisprudence Second 15. To obtain an in-depth analysis and critique of a specific legal topic, a researcher should refer to:  A legal periodical 16. The Index of Legal Periodicals and the Current Law index are available on Westlaw and LexisNexis.  True 17. Commercial publications, such as the journal of taxation, are considered on of the categories of legal periodicals.  True 18. Both Corpus Juris Secundum and American Jurisprudence Second are available on Westlaw and LexisNexis.  False 19. Most court opinions are published in:  Advance sheets. 20. To locate a standardized definition or statement of the law and reasons in support of the definition or statement, a researcher should refer to:  Restatements of the Law 21. Unpublished court opinions in the United States, both federal and state, are published in West Group.  True 22. This is currently a Restatement for security law.  True 23. To locate specific ALR annotations, you may consult the:  ALR Digest, Annotation History Table, Table of Laws and Rules Cited. 24. To locate a specific topic in Restatements of the Law, a researcher should consult the:  Alphabetical Index, Table of Contents, Appendix Volume 25. Common law is often referred to as:

 Case Law, Judge-made Law 26. Case law is far larger in volume than either constitutional or statutory law.  True 27. A law review article usually provides an analysis and critique of a legal topic that is less in- depth than a treatise.  False 28. Uniform laws may be located through the use of:  Uniform Laws Annotated, Master Edition, Reference from another source, such as a court opinion. 29. Most court opinions have at least one dissenting opinion.  False 30. Corpus Juris Secundum and American Jurisprudence Second differ in that:  None of the above Legal Research Exam 4 Chapters 9 & 10 1. When looking for a case law, many sites require that you know the name or citation of the case and do not allow Boolean searching.  True 2. When you are searching for statutory law, most non-fee-based Web sites include the annotations.  False 3. CD-ROMs:  Have a disadvantage in that the material is only as current as the update. 4. The addresses of Web sites are referred to as URLs.  True 5. In Westlaw, if the search query is “bank & robber,” the search is a Terms and Connectors search.  True 6. You may update a LexisNexis search through the use of LexisNexis’s Shepard’s Citation Service.  True 7. A basic step for determining the search terms for computerized legal research is (are) as follow:  State the issue you are researching as specifically as possible in the context of the facts. 8. In LexisNexis search where the search query is “bank & robber,” the search will retrive all documents that contain both terms.  True 9. The databases of LOIS and VersusLaw are less extensive that Westlaw and LexisNexis.  True 10. Some of the most comprehensive site that provide general access to legal research sites and allow you to locate relates sites based on key words are the following:  FindLaw & LawCrawler

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