Legal Research

Question 1

List the two types of legal sources

Answer 1

Primary and Secondary sources.

Question 2

Define Primary sources

Answer 2

Primary sources are official sources that create the law: court decisions, legislation, and regulations that form the basis of legal doctrine.

Question 3

Primary Sources can be broken down into what two sub categories

Answer 3

Binding and Persuasive authority.

Question 4

Define Secondary Sources

Answer 4

Works which are not themselves the law, but which discuss or analyze legal doctrine.

Question 5

Define what each citation means: Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015).

Answer 5

“576” is the volume number,
“644” the page number, and
“U.S.” the abbreviation for the United States Reports (the official source for opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court).

Question 6

Define a Boolean search

Answer 6

Boolean searches allow you to combine words and phrases using the words AND, OR, NOT (known as Boolean operators) to limit, broaden, or define your search.

Question 7

American Jurisprudence 2d and Corpus Juris Secundum are examples of what type of legal resource?

Answer 7

Legal Encyclopedias

Question 8

Jurisdictional Encyclopedias are state specific legal encyclopedia?

Answer 8

True

Question 9

ALR (a case annotator) stands for which resource?

Answer 9

American Law Reports