Chapter Eight Exercise Assignment Page

For completion of the Chapter Eight Exercise Assignment, please answer the following questions from the text on page 238 for 10 points:

1) When conducting legal and government research on the Internet, what criteria are most important for evaluating a Web resource? Explain your answer. Five (5) points are allotted for an answer.

2) What are electronic "alerts"? Give some examples of their application to legal research. Three (3) points are allotted for an answer.

3) What are PACER and CM/ECF, and how are they related? Two (2) points are allotted for an answer.

For 15 total points (one point per answer allotted), please complete the following exercises using the Bluebook as a reference:

Direction: Rule 12, in the BlueBook, focuses on citing statutes. Use Rule 12 and the BlueBook to write the correct citation sentence from the information provided.

4) Title 2 of the United States Code, Section 1, and the date of code addition that is cited are 1934.

5) Title 26 of the United States Code, section 950, 2012 date of code addition cited (Tip: look at what section of code this is because it's an EXCEPTION to the general rule)

6) Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 4.

7) Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 410

8) Title of the Act is Administrative Procedure Act Section 1, Title 5 of the United States Code Section 551 in 2012. Write the full citation and the short citation for the above-mentioned information.

Direction: Rule 11, in the BlueBook, covers everything related to how to properly cite the United States and state constitutions. Use the BlueBook and Rule 11 to write the correct citation sentence from the information provided.

9) Article 1, section 1 of the United States Constitution.

10) Preamble of the Florida Constitution.

11) Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2, of the United States Constitution.

12) Florida Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 2.

13) 18^th Amendment to the United States Constitution. (hint this amendment has been repealed)

14) Using Westlaw, find the United States Constitution. Cite the First Amendment of the Constitution. Keep in mind, that BlueBook differentiates when retrieving materials through electronic sources and printed materials.

Direction: Use the BlueBook to write the correct citation sentence from the information provided.

15) Jane Roe was the petitioner and Henry Wade was the respondent in this case. The case was decided in 1971. The reporter that the case was published in was United States Reports, volume 410 on page 113.

16) Terry Deason was the Respondent and Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was the petitioner in this case. The case was decided in the Florida Supreme Court in 1994. The opinion was published in the second edition of the Southern Reporter, volume 632 on page 1377.

17) Karem Romo was the Appellant in this case, and Amedex Insurance Company was the Appellee. This case was heard in the Third District of the Court of Appeals of Florida. The case was reported in the 930 volume of the Southern Reporter's second edition. The page the case starts on is 643, and the passage you want to cite is 644. The case was decided in 2006.

18) In West Law, search within Supreme Court Cases for "football," and properly cite the first case.