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• Bankruptcy decisions published in major reports of U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts
• Collier Bankruptcy Cases (MB)
• Bankruptcy Reporter (West)
• Bankruptcy Court Decisions (LRP)
• Bankruptcy Law Reporter (CCH)
• American Bankruptcy Reports
• Bankruptcy provisions from U.S. Code Titles 11, 18, and 28
• General Orders in Bankruptcy
• Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, including local and appellate panel rules

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• Collier Bankruptcy Cases
• Bankruptcy Reporter
• Bankruptcy Court Decisions
• Bankruptcy Law Reporter
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

A citations service covering every reported bankruptcy decision of the federal courts, bankruptcy provisions of the U.S. Code, General Orders in Bankruptcy, and Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure. Provides all the citations information a bankruptcy specialist needs: the right "slice" of citations to caselaw, statutes and regulations. Special features of Shepard's Bankruptcy Citations not offered in any other Shepard's citator include a breakdown of citing sources (search results) by bankruptcy court (in addition to circuit breakdowns) and the name of the judge who authored the opinion. These features are of particular use to bankruptcy practitioners.

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• Annotations as published in A.L.R. (3d, 4th and 5th Series), A.L.R. Fed. and L.E.2d
• Federal and state cases can also be Shepardized. For cases, the search results will be limited to annotation citations.

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Search results for cases will only include citations to annotations.

A citations service designed for use with A.L.R., A.L.R. Fed. and L.E.2d annotations. Annotations are surveys of the law, including past developments, current law and probable future trends. They are used by many attorneys because annotations can "jump-start" legal research projects by providing quick access to leading cases. By Shepardizing an annotation, the researcher can see at a glance where that annotation has been cited in judicial decisions from all state and federal jurisdictions, as well as in subsequent annotations. This can quickly provide valuable information that would be missed if only the cases themselves are Shepardized. Citations for Annotations also allows the researcher to Shepardize federal and state court decisions to see whether a particular decision has been covered in an annotation. This information collects in one convenient place the annotation citing references that are included in numerous other Shepard's products.

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• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) (all titles)
• Presidential Proclamations
• Executive Orders
• Reorganization Plans

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

CFR contains all regulations of federal agencies. Federal regulation is so all-pervasive that CFR provisions are frequently at issue in litigation. Just as one would Shepardize a statute to verify its status as precedent and to obtain citations for cases that have cited the statute, researchers need to know whether a CFR provision has been held invalid or unconstitutional, and how a CFR provision has been interpreted by the courts. Shepard's unique date identification system shows the year of the CFR provision being cited or the date of decision if the court doesn't cite a specific edition. This saves research time because CFR is frequently amended and the date identifiers allow a researcher to quickly locate cases dealing with the provision being Shepardized. Code of Federal Regulations Citations also covers regulations promulgated by the President: Presidential Proclamations, Executive Orders and Reorganization Plans. Coverage of these Presidential materials is unique. Some titles of CFR can be Shepardized in a specialized citator, e.g., Title 26 in Federal Tax Citator, but Code of Federal Regulations Citations is the only publication where all of CFR can be Shepardized.

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• American Bar Association's Standards for Criminal Justice (first, second and third editions)
• ABA Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

ABA committees have promulgated Standards for the administration of criminal justice. Courts frequently look to these Standards for guidance and construe them in the course of deciding criminal appeals. Knowing how courts have interpreted the Standards can be vital to criminal defense attorneys and to prosecutors. Citations coverage of the ABA Standards can be found only in Criminal Justice Citations. In addition, this citator contains citations to the ABA Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions. This coverage is also unique.

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• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) reporters
• Employment Practices Decisions
• Fair Employment Practice Cases
• Federal Equal Opportunity Reporter
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Cases
• Cross references for United States Supreme Court and lower federal court opinions
• Employment law provisions of the U.S. Code and CFR

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• Employment law sources
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

This four-volume citator is a subset of Labor Law Citations and includes citations coverage of employment law and civil rights. Employment Law Citations also offers extensive citations coverage of EEOC decisions that is not included in Labor Law Citations.

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• Includes divisions for the two leading environmental law case reporting services, ERC and ELR

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations
• Environment Reporter Cases (ERC), published by BNA
• Environmental Law Reporter (ELR), published by the Environmental Law Institute
• Environmental law reviews

Provides the citations information an environmental law specialist needs: the right "slice" of citations to caselaw, statutes and regulations. Allows researcher to Shepardize cases using ERC and ELR citations, and to get ERC and ELR citations as search results. Because many specialists have these services more readily available than large reporter sets like F. Supp. or F.3d, and because ERC and ELR publish some decisions that are not reported elsewhere, Environmental Law Citations saves time and provides information unavailable in any other service.

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• Energy law decisions and orders of federal courts and regulatory bodies, including Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (and its predecessor agency, Federal Power Commission), Department of Energy, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Includes divisions for specialized energy law reporters, including Oil and Gas Reporter and Public Utilities Reports-Energy Cases
• Also covers energy law provisions of U.S. Code and CFR

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Plus specialized energy law sources, including:

• CCH Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reports
• Energy Management Court Decisions
• CCH Department of Energy Decisions and Orders
• Oil and Gas Reporter

Provides the citations information an energy law specialist needs: the right "slice" of caselaw, administrative decisions and order, statutes and regulations. Coverage of most administrative and specialized materials is unique. (FERC and FPC materials also appear in U.S. Administrative Citations.)

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• Federal court decisions, including U.S. Supreme Court and all lower federal courts
• U.S. Code
• federal court rules
• CFR

Companion citator to Shepard's Federal product line (United States, Federal and Federal Statute Citations), which do not include law review citations because of the size of these sets. Particularly in large or complex litigation and in appellate work, especially dealing with emerging or changing bodies of law, attorneys want to see academic commentary in addition to caselaw. Selected Law Reviews provides easy access to this material. The citator is also a valuable resource for law professors, students and others engaged in academic research and writing.

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• Occupational Safety and Health Cases (BNA)
• Occupational Safety and Health Decisions (CCH)
• OSAHRC Reports
• Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts involving workplace safety and health
• Job safety and health provisions in the U.S. Code and CFR

• Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• Occupational safety and health law services
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Provides the citations information an OSHA specialist needs: the right "slice" of citations to caselaw, statutes and regulations. Coverage of specialized occupational safety and health materials is found only in Federal Occupational Safety and Health Citations.

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• Civil Procedure
• Criminal Procedure
• Evidence
• Appellate Procedure

Also covers "local" rules of U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals and U.S. District Court, including many sets of rules governing specialized federal courts and subject areas.

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Litigation is often won or lost based on a court's interpretation of a rule: Is certain evidence admissible? Was a critical pleading timely filed? Coverage is not unique (also included in Federal Statute Citations) but this smaller set offers an affordable, easy-to-use add-on for firms and libraries that serve heavy-duty federal litigators.

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• Tax decisions published in major reports of U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts
• American Federal Tax Reports
• United States Tax Cases
• United States Tax Court Reports
• Board of Tax Appeals
• Tax Court Memorandum Decisions
• Internal Revenue Code (U.S. Code Title 26)
• IRC Regulations (Title 26, CFR), including Proposed and Temporary Regulations
• IRS Cumulative Bulletin
• IRS Private Letter Rulings
• IRS Revenue Procedures
• IRS Revenue Rulings
• IRS Rulings, Procedures, and Recommendations
• IRS Technical Advice Memoranda
• IRS Treasury Decisions
• IRS Uniform Issue List Numbers

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• American Federal Tax Reports
• United States Tax Cases
• United States Tax Court Reports
• Tax Court Memorandum Decisions
• IRS Cumulative Bulletin
• IRS Private Letter Rulings
• IRS Revenue Procedures
• IRS Revenue Rulings
• IRS Technical Advice Memoranda
• IRS Treasury Decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Provides all the citations information a federal tax specialist needs: the right "slice" of citations to caselaw, statutes, regulations and other IRS publications. Shepard's provides all citations to over 30 IRS sources, including Private Letter Rulings, Technical Advice Memoranda and Treasury Decisions. These sources are not available in any other Shepard's citator. All federal tax sources receive enhanced editorial analysis by Shepard's. For example, sections of the Internal Revenue Code are assigned unique editorial letters to indicate whether the government or taxpayer prevailed in a given tax case. Search results include every major tax reporter.

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• Immigration and Nationality Decisions
• Interim Decisions
• Immigration Law and Procedure Reporter
• Immigration Case Reporter
• Immigration and naturalization decisions as published in major reports of the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts
• Also covers Immigration and Nationality law provisions of U.S. Code and CFR

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Immigration and Nationality Decisions
• Interim Decisions
• Administrative decisions under immigration and nationality laws
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Provides the citations information an immigration specialist needs: the right "slice" of citations to caselaw, statutes and regulations. This is the only citation source for INS opinions and for citations to and from specialized immigration law services.

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• Intellectual Property (IP) decisions published in United States Patents Quarterly (USPQ), published by BNA, and in major reports of federal court decisions
• Also provides legal citations to U.S. patents, trademarks and copyrights
• Coverage includes IP provisions of the U.S. Code and practice rules from Title 37, CFR
• Citations to two older reports, Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (Patents) and Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents 1869-1968, can also be Shepardized

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations
• Specialized IP sources, principally USPQ and the Official Gazette (OG), published by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)

OG citations include notices of patent expiration, patent certificates of correction, reexaminations, reissues, trademark registrations canceled and statutory invention registration. These citations include editorial assignments indicating subject of notice.

Provides the citations information an IP specialist needs: the right "slice" of citations to caselaw, statutes, regulations and also to the patents, trademarks and copyrights themselves.

Coverage of legal citations to patents, trademarks and copyrights, including unique editorial analysis, can be found nowhere else. Coverage of citations to and from USPQ, the leading specialized IP case reporter, is also unique. Because many IP specialists have USPQ readily available, and because USPQ publishes some decisions that are not reported elsewhere (including decisions of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, and other tribunals within the PTO), Intellectual Property Law Citations saves time and provides information unavailable in any other service. A true "must have" for IP practitioners.

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(Coverage of patents are available on-line)

(Coverage of copyrights and trademarks not available on-line.)

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• Labor Arbitration Awards (CCH)
• Labor Arbitration Reports (BNA)
• United States Supreme Court, federal courts and state courts in labor arbitration cases
• Labor arbitration provisions of the U.S. Code, CFR and State codes

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• Labor arbitration law reporting services
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Labor Arbitration Citations offers comprehensive citations coverage of awards between parties of union contracts. This product would appeal to the labor specialist who handles employee/employer disputes and/or works with union representatives. Labor Arbitration Citations is the only citations source for citations to and from specialized labor arbitration materials.

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• Decisions of the National Labor Relations Board
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) reporters
• Employee Benefits Cases
• Employment Practices Decisions
• Fair Employment Practice Decisions
• Individual Employment Rights
• Labor Cases
• Labor Relations Reference Manual
• Wage and Hour Cases
• Labor law decisions of the United States Supreme Court
• Labor law decisions of the lower federal courts
• Labor and employment law provisions of the U.S. Code and CFR (including ADA)

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• Specialized labor and employment law sources
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Labor Law Citations offers complete citations coverage of the entire labor and employment law field, including labor relations, employment discrimination, disabilities and Title VII. Special features include point of law headings, which are descriptive words that indicate at a glance the legal principle for which the case has been cited. Also, to reduce research time, parallel citing references are grouped.

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Unique citations coverage of law reviews and legal periodicals allows a researcher to Shepardize a law review article and find judicial decisions and other law review articles that have cited the article being Shepardized. A valuable reference tool for academic researchers.

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• Court Martial Reports
• Military Justice Reporter
• Uniform Code of Military Justice
• Manual for Courts-Martial
• Miscellaneous Orders and Regulations
• Military Court Rules

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• Military Justice Reporter
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Annotations

Provides all of the citations information a military specialist needs: the right "slice" of caselaw, statutes and regulations. A "must have" for military lawyers and judges, because it is the only citations source for the specialized military justice materials. Includes up-to-date slip opinion citations.

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• Code of Professional Responsibility
• Model Rules of Professional Conduct
• Code of Judicial Conduct
• Opinions of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (Formal and Informal Ethics Opinions)

• Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Ethics Opinions
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

plus numerous law reviews and legal periodicals

Unique citations coverage of materials relating to legal ethics and the professional responsibilities of lawyers and judges. Coverage includes citations in ABA Formal and Informal Ethics Opinions.

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• American Law Institute's Restatements of the Law (all titles, e.g., Contracts, Property, Torts, Trusts, Unfair Competition)
• Also covers Model Code of Evidence

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Unique citations coverage of the Restatements, which are an important, frequently cited source of legal authority. Written by prominent scholars and judges, Restatements are surveys and commentaries on particular subjects in American law. Although they are not official and are not binding, the Restatements are highly persuasive in the courts, probably more so than any other secondary source. Thus Restatement Citations is a valuable research tool. Also includes citations to the Model Code of Evidence. Allows a researcher to Shepardize a Restatement or Model Code provision and find all judicial decisions that have cited the provision being Shepardized.

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• UCC-related decisions published in major reports of U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts
• UCC-related decisions of state courts as published in West regional reporters
• Uniform Commercial Code Reporting Service (Callaghan)

• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• Uniform Commercial Code

Reporting Service (Callaghan)

• Bankruptcy decisions as published in Bankruptcy Reporter
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Provides citations to every published case significantly involving the U.C.C. and its state counterparts.

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• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• Uniform Commercial Code

Reporting Service (Callaghan)

• Bankruptcy decisions as published in Bankruptcy Reporter
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Citations coverage of the Uniform Commercial Code and its state counterparts. Because of the overlap between secured transactions and bankruptcy law, Shepard's Uniform Commercial Code Citations complements Shepard's Bankruptcy Citations.

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• U.S. Supreme Court decisions (as published in U.S., S. Ct., L.E.)
• Lower federal court decisions
• State court decisions as published in regional reporters
• Articles in selected leading law reviews
• Annotations

Plus specialized administrative sources, including:

• Customs Bulletin-U.S. Customs Service Treasury Decisions
• Federal Communications Commission Record (also F.C.C. and F.C.C.2d)
• CCH Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reports
• Federal Trade Commission Reports
• U.S. Court of International Trade Reports

Unique citations coverage of numerous federal regulatory agencies, including Department of Interior, Treasury/Customs, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Includes Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and Federal Power Commission (FPC), which are also covered in Federal Energy Law Citations. Historical coverage includes Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). Allows a researcher to Shepardize an administrative decision or order and find its status as precedent as well as all decisions and orders that have cited it. Includes Shepard's expert editorial analysis of the history, treatment and operation of administrative decisions and orders. Also covers citations to and from American Maritime Cases.

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Shepard's Acts and Cases by Popular Name is a reference tool that provides citation information for statutes and cases that are commonly referred to by popular name.

If you know a state or federal statute only by name ("Pine Creek Scenic Rivers Act" or "Pilot Records Improvement Act of 1996"), you can use this handy indexing system to quickly find its citation. Similarly, you can use Acts and Cases to find lists of citations for statutes dealing with a specific topic ("Lemon Law" or "Water Conservation"). Constitutional provisions ("Equal Suffrage Amendment") are also included.

If you know a case by subject area ("School Desegregation"), doctrine ("Fruit-of-the-Poisonous-Tree") or popular name ("Miranda"), you can find its citation in Acts and Cases.

Shepard's Acts and Cases by Popular Name is widely used by attorneys, paralegals, librarians, law students and laypersons as a starting point for legal research. If you know only a scrap of information about a statute or a case, Acts and Cases can help you find its citation, which is the all-important "address" that allows you to find the statute or case in a published code or case reporter, and to Shepardize the statute or case in the pertinent Shepard's citator.

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If you only need to check which federal circuit or district decided a particular case, Shepard's Federal Circuit Table provides this information in a single volume. In tables organized by West Reporter citations (F.3d, F.2d, F. Supp., F.R.D., Bankr.) are the circuit numbers or state abbreviations for all of these federal court decisions. Provides information not found in older editions of Federal Citations.

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