1)types: primary secondary helpers 2)library books 3)internet ny courts website tanbook citation...
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1)Types:
Primary
Secondary
Helpers
2)Library
Books
3) Internet
NY Courts Website
Tanbook
Citation Services
4)Computer Assisted Legal Research
Resources for Legal Research
Constitutions
Constitutions
Federal
New York
Constitutional Law
Case Law
Courts’ interpretation of the constitution)P
RIM
AR
Y
Statutes
Federal
United States Code
United States Code Annotated
United States Code Service
PR
IMA
RY
Rules and Regulations
Federal
Code of Federal Regulations
New York
New York Code, Rules and RegulationsP
RIM
AR
Y
Federal Cases
Supreme Court
United States Reports
Supreme Court Reporter
Lawyers’ Edition
1st Series
2d SeriesPR
IMA
RY
New York Cases
Appellate Division
Appellate Division Reports
1st series
2d series
3d SeriesPR
IMA
RY
New York Cases
Appellate Term & Trial Courts
Miscellaneous Reports
1st series
2d series
3d SeriesPR
IMA
RY
Secondary Sources of Law
These are not the law
(The law is found in primary)
They explain the law
They come from
Legal Writers/Commentators
Lawyers
Professors
Secondary Sources of Law
A.Encyclopedias
American Jurisprudence
New York Jurisprudence
Corpus Juris SecundumSE
CO
ND
AR
Y
New York Digests
New York Cases are published in New York Reports (NY, NY2d, NY3d)
This is the official reporter
New York Cases are also published in New York Supplement (NYS)
Published by West
This is unofficial
But it contains more than just the case….
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LP
ER
S
New York Digests
The West editors take a case and adds headnotes
Headnotes are a summary of a legal point made in the case
There can be one to many headnotes per case
it depends on how many legal points there are in a particular case
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LP
ER
S
New York Digests
What do they do with all those headnotes?
Each headnote gets a keynumber based on similar rules
They organize them into topics and publish them in Digests
Use them to find similar casesHE
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Books in Our Library
Federal
US Reports & Lawyers Edition
US Supreme Court Digests
Code of Federal Regulations
US Code & US Code Service
Books in Our Library
New York
McKinney’s Consolidated Laws of New York Annotated
New York Supplement
New York Digests