A ____ will sometimes refer to legislative history to determine the legislature's intended meaning of a term or phrase used in a law or when or how the law applies.
The two most-used commercial, fee-based commercial legal services are Westlaw and LexisNexis. Because they are fee-based and are provided on a contractual basis, they are considered to be more ___ than free resources.
"_____ authority" is the term that refers to legal research sources that summarize, compile, explain comment on, interpret, or in some other way address the law.
Legal ____ publish in-depth articles on current legal issues, recently emerging areas of the law, or very specific legal topics. Examples of this type of secondary authority include law reviews, bar association journals, other commercial journals that focus on specific areas of the law, and legal newspapers.
Some of the limitations of non-fee-based, or ___ legal resources, is that they may contain information that is not accurate or not up to date.
Best practices for keeping electronic research ____ include: 1) keep the scope and objective of your research in mind, 2) do not aimlessly click through the results of websites, 3) keep notes, 4) use the browser history when needed, 5) bookmark useful sites, and 6) never rely solely on non-fee-based resources.
Secondary authority can be used as ____ authority, but it is not binding authority.
The _____ rule of statutory construction provides that if the meaning of a statute is clear on its face, there is no room for interpretation and a court will not apply any of the canons of construction.
The process of consulting a Shepard's source or electronic service such as Shepard's or Keycite in order to determine the current validity of an authority is called ______.
Statutory ______ directly follow a statute section in an annotated publication of the statute. They are references to various sources of information related to that section of the statute, such as the history of the statute section, official comments, cross-references to other related statutes, references to secondary sources, and notes of court decisions that have discussed the statute.
The canon of construction known as "intended ____" provides that statutes are to be interpreted in such a way that furthers the intended legislative remedy.
The two main _____ obligations to keep in mind when doing legal research are Rule 1.1 of the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct (adopted by most states) requiring that a client be provided competent representation and Rule 1.3 (adopted by most states) requiring that a client must be represented with diligence and promptness.
A case is "on ___" when it is a case that governs or guides the resolution of an issue in a client's case.
Decisions of the Indiana ___ Courts are reported in the regional reporter called North Eastern Reporter.
Newly enacted laws are communicated to the public by the US Government Printing Office and are referred to as ________.