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AC — Appeal Cases (United Kingdom law report) ACC — Association of Corporate Counsel; AD - South African Law Reports, Appellate Division; ad., ads., adsm. — ad sectam (Latin), at the suit of. Used in colonial and Federal Era American cases when the defendant is listed first; e.g., "John Doe v. Richard Roe" is labeled "Richard Roe ads ...
West attorney editors add headnotes that summarize key principles of law in the cases, and Key Numbers that classify the decisions by topic within the West American Digest System. The Bluebook calls for citations to the Federal Appendix to be abbreviated as F. App'x. [2] Westlaw, however, abbreviates citations to the Federal Appendix as Fed. Appx.
An unpublished opinion is a decision of a court that is not available for citation as precedent because the court deems the case to have insufficient precedential value. In the system of common law, each judicial decision becomes part of the body of law used in future decisions. However, some courts reserve certain decisions, leaving them ...
Outline of law: Lists; List of Latin phrases This page was last edited on 18 April 2024, at 03:19 (UTC). Text is ...
If a case is not reported in the Law Reports, the next best report is the Weekly Law Reports (e.g. [2002] 2 WLR 1315), and then the All England Reports (e.g., [2002] 2 All ER 865). In some situations, it might be preferable to cite a specialist series, e.g., Rottman v MPC was also cited in the Human Rights Law Reports, at [2002] HRLR 32.
In the United States, it was estimated in 1989 that 40% of the AIDS cases in South Carolina went unreported, largely due to social stigma in the early days of the epidemic. [27] In 2008, out of 2,460 deaths from AIDS-related illnesses during a six-year period in Washington, DC, an estimated of 1,337 had not been reported. [28]
In some cases, the nickname may be better known than the formal name. For example, "West Point" for the United States Military Academy or "UCLA" for the University of California, Los Angeles. This list of colloquial names for universities and colleges in the United States provides a lexicon of such names. It includes only alternative names for ...
A key feature of both European law and court rules is the policy of urgency. Kelly v Trinity College Dublin [2007] IESC 61: Former employments or associations are insufficient to disqualify a person from participating in disciplinary or similar tribunals related to that former employment. Roche v Roche [2009] IESC 82