Background: Chang has prepared an exercise for LCA's monthly Research Education And Development (READ) professional development seminar for the firm's paralegals. The research exercise centers on a hypothetical fact scenario. You and the other paralegals are to work in groups to complete the exercise prior to the seminar; your findings will be discussed at the seminar.

Hypothetical Facts: After a child was severely bitten by a dog, an escaped pit bull terrier, the City Council wants to prohibit residents from having pet pit bulls within the city limits. The City Council needs information about the legality of banning specific breeds of dogs from the city.

Part 1

You've been asked to explore whether local governments can prohibit residents from keeping pit bull terriers in their homes. At this point, your research topic is very broad.

Using Westlaw, conduct a natural language search in the specified secondary source to gather more information by searching inAmerican Jurisprudence, 2d(Am. Jur.).

To access Am. Jur./A.L.R., log in to Westlaw. The default view upon login should be Home page. Under Content Types, click on Secondary Sources and look under the heading, By Type. For Am. Jur., select Jurisprudence & Encyclopedias American Jurisprudence 2d; for A.L.R., simply select American Law Reports. Finally, enter your natural language search phrase or words in the search bar near the top of the page.

Review several results in Westlaw and then respond to these questions.

1. What phrase or words did you use for your natural language search?

2. What were your search results like? Were they helpful?

3. What was the most useful search result you reviewed? Explain what made that result especially useful.

• ForAm. Jur., identify the Topic (the words after "Am. Jur. 2d"), the section number (the numbers that appear after "") and the name of the article/section (the words that follow the section number).

4. Based on your preliminary research, do you think local governments generally have the authority to ban residents from having pet pit bull terriers? Explain why or why not.