Law 11 Administrative Law and Codes

American Law Reports o American Law Reports (ALR) is a series of articles on the approaches different courts have taken to a legal issue. o There’s also ALR Federal, focusing on federal law. o Provides a broad, multi-jurisdictional perspective on a legal issue. 2

Citation o Rule of The Bluebook Diane Schmauder Kane, Annotation, Construction and Application of Learned-Intermediary Doctrine, 57 A.L.R.5 th (1998). 3

ALR o Includes: o Key Number System o Table of Cited statutes and cases o References to secondary sources, including law reviews, treatises, encyclopedias o Annotations o Gives a discussion of all previously reported cases on a particular topic 4

How to Use ALRs o Index o Arranged by subject o Digest o Classified into topics arranged alphabetically. o Under each topic are headnotes from cases reported in the entire A.L.R. family o Electronic Format o Available on Westlaw and Lexis o Shepard’s Citations o Contains references to Annotations citing to cases and references to cases citing to Annotations 5

Updating ALRs o A.L.R.3d, 4 th, 5 th Federal o Annual cumulative pocket supplement o A.L.R. 2d. o Later Case Service provides digests of cases and relates them directly to the relevant sections of the A.L.R.2d Annotations o Updated with annual pocket supplements o A.L.R. o A.L.R. Blue Book of Supplemental Decisions o Annotation History Table – shows if supplemented or superceded o Located in back of each volume of the ALR Index o Shepard’s Citations for Annotations o Key Cite and Auto-Cite 6

Administrative Law and Codes o Regulations, rules and adjudications of federal administrative bodies o Federal Register o Publishes any administrative rule or regulation that has general applicability and legal effect o Published in chronological order o Prior to 1936 o Published daily 7

Code of Federal Regulations o Code of Federal Regulations o Codifies rules and regulations first published in the Federal Register o Organized by Title, subdivided by Chapters, Subchapters, Parts and Sections o Citation: 42 C.F.R. § TitleSection

Other Sources of Federal Regulations o Electronic Research o LexisNexis o Westlaw o Internet: 9

Finding Federal Regulations o Federal Register Index o CFR Index and Finding Aids o Also includes Parallel Table of Authorities and Rules o Updating Regulations o LSA: List of CFR Sections Affected o Available online: ex.html ex.html o CFR Parts Affected o Shepard’s Code of Federal Regulations Citations 10