Researching Constitutional Law

by Melone, Albert P.

• ISBN13: 9780673520869
• ISBN10: 0673520862
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-04-01
• Publisher: Scott Foresman & Co

Table of Contents

Conducting Legal Research	1	(41)
Introduction	1	(1)
Opinions of the United States Superme Court	1	(3)
United States Reports (U.S.)	2	(1)
United States Supreme Court Reports---Lawyers' Edition (L. Ed.)	3	(1)
Supreme Court Reporter (S. Ct.)	4	(1)
Briefs Filed with the U.S. Supreme Court	4	(2)
Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States: Constitutional Law	5	(1)
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs	5	(1)
Supreme Court of the United States Petitions and Briefs	6	(1)
Lexis	6	(1)
Lower Federal Court Reports	6	(2)
Federal Cases (Fed. Cas.)	6	(1)
Federal Reporter (F.), (F.2d)	7	(1)
Federal Supplement (F. Supp.)	7	(1)
State Court Reporters	8	(1)
American Law Reports (ALR)	9	(1)
Keeping Current	10	(3)
U.S. Law Week	11	(1)
U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin (S. Ct. Bull.)	12	(1)
West's Federal Case News	13	(1)
Legal Encyclopedias	13	(5)
The Guide to American Law: Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia	14	(1)
Enyclopedia of the American Judicial System	14	(1)
American Jurisprudence 2d (Am. Jur. 2d)	15	(1)
Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.)	16	(1)
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution	17	(1)
Codes	18	(2)
United States Code (U.S.C.)	19	(1)
United States Code Service (U.S.C.S.)	19	(1)
United States Code Annotated (U.S.C.A.)	20	(1)
Administrative Agency Reporting	20	(2)
Federal Register	21	(1)
Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)	21	(1)
Digests	22	(4)
American Digest System	22	(1)
Key Number System	22	(2)
Specialized Digests	24	(1)
Federal Practice Digest	24	(1)
U.S. Supreme Court Digest (West Publishing Company)	24	(1)
U.S. Supreme Court Reports Digest: Lawyers' Edition	24	(2)
Citators	26	(5)
Shepard's United States Citations: Cases	26	(4)
Shepard's United States Citations: Statutes	30	(1)
Legal Periodicals and Indexes	31	(5)
Index to Legal Periodicals	32	(1)
Subject and Author Index	32	(1)
Table of Cases Commented Upon	33	(1)
Table of Statutes Commented Upon	33	(1)
Book Review Index	33	(1)
Current Law Index	33	(1)
Legal Trac	34	(1)
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals	34	(1)
Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law	34	(1)
Criminal Justice Periodical Index	35	(1)
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin	35	(1)
Social Science Index	35	(1)
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature	35	(1)
The New York Times Index	35	(1)
Law Dictionaries	36	(1)
Computer Terminal Research-Aids	36	(1)
Legal Research Exercises	37	(2)
Legal Encyclopedias	37	(1)
Legal Codes	38	(1)
Digests	38	(1)
Citators	39	(1)
Legal Periodicals	39	(1)
Answers to Legal Exercises	39	(2)
Survey to Book Literature	41	(32)
Introduction	41	(1)
Expository Works	41	(4)
Historical Accounts of the Supreme Court	45	(6)
Judicial Review and Constitutional Interpretation	51	(4)
Judicial Biographies	55	(4)
Case Studies	59	(2)
Compliance and Impact Analysis	61	(3)
Judicial Process and Behavior	64	(9)
Writing and Documenting Research Papers	73	(31)
Introduction	73	(1)
Choosing a Topic	73	(1)
Using the Library	74	(1)
The Format for a Paper	75	(1)
Citations	75	(1)
What to Cite	75	(1)
Footnoting Form	76	(24)
Footnoting Books	77	(3)
Footnoting Journal and Magazine Articles	80	(1)
Footnoting Encyclopedias, Almanacs, and Other Works	81	(2)
Footnoting Legal Sources	83	(2)
Footnoting Government Documents	85	(3)
Later References to the Same Footnote or Endnote Source	88	(1)
Second References with Intervening Citations	88	(1)
Bibliography Form	89	(1)
Bibliography Entries for Books	89	(3)
Bibliography Entries for Journal and Magazine Articles	92	(1)
Bibliography Entries for Encyclopedias, Almanacs, and Other Works	93	(2)
Bibliography Entries for Legal Sources	95	(2)
Bibliography Entries for Government Documents	97	(3)
Scientific Reference Form	100	(4)
Why and How to Brief a Case	104	(11)
Introduction	104	(2)
Elements of a Brief	106	(6)
Model Brief	112	(3)
Summaries of Leading Supreme Court Decisions	115	(43)
Introduction	115	(1)
Summaries	116	(42)
Baker v. Carr	116	(1)
Barenblatt v. United States	116	(1)
Barron v. Baltimore	117	(1)
Bolling v. Sharpe	118	(1)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka I	118	(1)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka II	119	(1)
Buckley v. Valeo	120	(1)
Butchers' Benevolent Association v. Crescent City Livestock Landing and Slaughterhouse Co. (Slaughterhouse Cases)	120	(1)
Civil Rights Cases	121	(1)
Cooley v. Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia	122	(1)
Dennis v. United States	122	(1)
Ex Parte McCardle	123	(1)
Ex Parte Milligan	123	(1)
Fletcher v. Peck	124	(1)
Furman v. Georgia	125	(1)
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority	125	(1)
Gibbons v. Ogden	126	(1)
Gideon v. Wainwright	127	(1)
Gitlow v. New York	127	(1)
Griswold v. Connecticut	128	(1)
Hammer v. Dagenhart	128	(1)
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States	129	(1)
Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell	129	(1)
Hurtado v. California	130	(1)
Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha	131	(1)
Katz v. United States	131	(1)
Katzenbach v. McClung	132	(1)
Koremats v. United States	132	(1)
Lochner v. New York	133	(1)
Luther v. Borden	133	(1)
McCulloch v. Maryland	134	(1)
Mapp v. Ohio	134	(1)
Marbury v. Madison	135	(1)
Milliken v. Bradley	136	(1)
Miranda v. Arizona	136	(1)
Missouri v. Holland	137	(1)
Munn v. Illinois	137	(1)
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.	138	(1)
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan	139	(1)
New York Times Co. v. United States	139	(1)
Nixon v. Fitzgerald	140	(1)
Palko v. Connecticut	140	(1)
Plessy v. Ferguson	140	(1)
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co.	141	(1)
Powell v. Alabama	142	(1)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke	142	(1)
Reynolds v. Sims	143	(1)
Roe v. Wade	144	(1)
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States	145	(1)
Schenck v. United States	146	(1)
School District of Abington Township v. Schempp	146	(1)
Shelley v. Kraemer	147	(1)
Smith v. Allwright	148	(1)
Stuart v. Laird	148	(1)
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District	149	(1)
Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward	149	(1)
United States v. Butler	150	(1)
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.	151	(1)
United States v. Darby	151	(1)
United States v. E. C. Knight Co.	152	(1)
United States v. Nixon	153	(1)
United States v. United States District Court for Eastern District of Michigan	154	(1)
Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York	154	(1)
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish	155	(1)
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette	156	(1)
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer	156	(2)
Glossary of Terms and Phrases	158	(19)
Bibliography	177	(44)
The Judicial System	177	(4)
Jurisprudence	181	(2)
Constitutional Law---General	183	(1)
Constitutional History	184	(6)
Federalism	190	(3)
Congress	193	(3)
Presidency	196	(4)
Civil Rights and Liberties	200	(13)
Law and Society	213	(6)
Legal Profession	219	(2)
Index	221