CFR Annotations and Research Guide (12/11)
CFR Annotations and Research Guide
Customers have long requested that we add annotations to our Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) source at lexis.com®. We are happy to report that you will begin to see those annotations this month! The annotations, when complete, will include hundreds of thousands of case notes that are based on the headnotes written by our case-law editors and a new research guide that has references to secondary source materials useful to practitioners in their legal research. Annotations from 2011 will be added first, and we will work our way back to cases from 1964. We will also be adding prospective notes as they become available.
The new case notes will cover case law from both federal courts and the highest state courts. With over 200 different courts covered, you will see notes from U.S. Tax Courts, the Court of International Trade, the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, every U.S. Court of Appeals and the district courts under them, and many more. Every federal court covered in our “Federal Court Cases, combined” database at lexis.com that existed since 1964 will be included in our coverage.
Regarding agency decisions, we will keep the “Notes to Decisions: Court and Administrative Decisions Significantly Discussing Section” area that currently exists. While it does not include full notes, this section lists citations to relevant decisions, including many agency decisions. In the short term you may notice some duplication between the Notes to Decisions section and the new casenotes. Once all of the notes are loaded, we will remove from the Notes to Decisions section any citation already included in the full casenotes. At that time the heading to this section will be updated to indicate that it includes only citations to administrative decisions.
We have also added a new research guide that has references to secondary source materials useful to practitioners in their legal research. The research guide will begin with references to key analytical titles including Collier on Bankruptcy®, Chisum on Patents, Moore’s Federal Practice® and others, building over the next year to include the same robust collection of materials referenced in the USCS.
Secondary sources in the research guide will start with the following ten analytical publications:
• ALR® (American Law Reports)
• Bender's Federal Practice Forms®
• Chisum on Patents
• Collier on Bankruptcy®
• Corporate Governance: Law and Practice
• Federal Income Taxation of Corporations Filing Consolidated Returns
• Gilson on Trademarks®
• Moore's Federal Practice®
• Nimmer on Copyright®
• Weinstein's Federal Evidence™
Over the course of the next year we will add the following secondary sources to further enhance the research guide:
• Administrative Law
• Am Jur® 2d
• Antitrust Counseling and Litigation Techniques®
• Antitrust Laws and Trade Regulation
• Banking Law
• Bender's Federal Income Taxation of Retirement Plans®
• Benedict on Admiralty®
• Business Crime
• Civil Rights Actions
• Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law
• Collier Bankruptcy Manual
• Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide
• Collier Forms Manual
• Computer Law
• Criminal Defense Techniques
• Debtor-Creditor Law
• Energy Law & Transactions
• Environmental Law Practice Guide
• Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure
• Goods in Transit
• Government Contracts: Law, Administration & Procedures
• Grad, Treatise on Environmental Law
• Homeland Security Deskbook
• Immigration Law and Practice
• Jayson & Longstreth, Handling Federal Tort Claims
• Kinter’s Federal Antitrust Law
• L Ed 2d (U.S. Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers' Edition 2d Annotations)
• Labor and Employment Law
• Larson’s Employment Discrimination
• Law of Advertising
• Liability of Corporate Officers and Directors
• Milgrim on Licensing
• Milgrim on Trade Secrets®
• National Labor Relations Act: Law and Practice
• Products Liability
• Rabkin & Johnson, Current Legal Forms
• Rabkin & Johnson, Federal Income, Gift and Estate Taxation
• Rapp, Education Law
• Regulation of Investment Companies
• Rhoades & Langer, U.S. International Taxation & Tax Treaties
• Securities Law Techniques
• Tax Controversies
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