Legal Research Exercises
Following The Bluebook
7th Edition
West Group
Corrections for 2002/2003
Student's Manual
Compiled by:
Nancy Johnson and Susan Phillips,
Angie Esparza, Assistant for Professor A. Michael Beaird
UALR Bowen School of Law

Assignment Four, Exercise A, page 42
Q. 7 New Question: Now you will use the subject approach. Look in the Descriptive Word Index volumes (either at the beginning or the end of the set). Using the descriptive word approach, find a 1983 New Jersey Superior Court, Chancery Division case dealing with the certificate of title in conjunction with the sale of an automobile. To what topic and key number are you referred?

Assignment Four, Exercise A, page 42
Q. 8 New Question: Look up the topic and key number and list the full citation in correct form of one of the two listed 1983 New Jersey Superior Court, Chancery Division cases.

Assignment Four, Exercise A, page 44
Q.13 The year of the case should be 1981 rather than 1984.

Assignment Four, Exercise B, page 47
Q. 9 & 10 The questions should read-What is the most recent volume of P.3d that the pocket part covers?

Assignment Five, Exercise D, page 70
Q. 10 The question should read-What is the cite of the Alabama decision that cited it?

Assignment Nine, Exercises A,B,C,D
Q. 1 The note should read: In the Bluebook, use Rule 12 and Table 1.

Assignment Ten, Exercise D, page 133
Q. 5 The question should read-On what pages in the hearing can you find Levitt's testimony?

Assignment Thirteen, Exercise B, page 156
Q. 7 The question should read - Examine the legislative history in 1988 U.S.C.C.A.N from Question 5.

Assignment Fourteen, Exercise A, p. 162
Q. 6 Provide the complete citation to a 1998 article on Haitian Refugees that appeared in the Harvard Human Rights Journal.

Assignment Fourteen, Exercise A, p. 162
Q. 7 The name of the case is Cotran v. Rollins Hudig Hall International, Inc.

Assignment Fourteen, Exercise B, p. 164
Q. 6 Provide the complete citation to a 1999 article on international tribunal for law of the sea that appeared in the International & Comparative Law Quarterly.

Assignment Fourteen, Exercise C, p. 166
Q. 6 Provide the citation to a 1996 article on Hispanic Americans that appeared in the American University Law Review.

Assignment Fourteen, Exercise C, p. 166
Q. 7 The name of the case is Life Insurance Co. v. Johnson.

Assignment Seventeen, page 184
Q. 12 New question in same database. Retrieve an article on the Sacajawea Hotel becoming an assisted living center for seniors. State the title of one article.