Reference Question of the Week

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More on Reporting Unreported Decisions

Question: A confused 1L asked about how to find and KeyCite an unpublished case from the SDNY. He knew the names of the parties but didn't know what it means to be unpublished, and was especially confused once he located the case since it has a U.S.P.Q. cite. Answer: With...

Is This Appeal Binding or Not

Question: Where can I find decisions of the Massachusetts Appellate Division? Are they binding on the Superior Court? Where can I get an authoritative statement that the Superior Court is not bound by Mass. App. Div. cases? Answer: As you all know, a party to a lawsuit who...

Why Not Check the Catalog

Question: Student had a cite to: Comptroller, Federal Protection and Preservation of Wild and Scenic Rivers Is Slow and Costly (1978) from the GAO. Answer: This GAO report is too old to be on the web, but we have some GAO reports in microfiche so we went to the Catalog of U.S....

Law Reviews of the Future

Question: A student working on a source collection was unable to locate volume 85 of the Indiana Law Journal which was alleged to contain two documents referenced by the author of the article the journal was editing. Answer: Wypyski, Legal Periodicals in English , indicates that...
 
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