Using the same legal issue you worked with in Assignment #1, please answer the following questions:

1. Using the General Index of U.S.C.A., find the title and section(s) of the U.S. Code most relevant to your legal issue. What descriptive words did you look under to find it?

2. Look at the Code provision you found in Question I in the current (1994) edition of the U.S. Code.

a. In addition to the text of the section, list the types of information and/or references provided there.

b. Look up one of the session law references (listed at the end of the Code provision) in both the United States Statutes at Large and the United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (USCCAN). Besides the text of the statute, what additional information and/or references, if any, did USCCAN provide that the Statutes at Large did not?

c. Locate the supplement that updates your Code section. Has the section been changed or amended since 1994?

3. Find your Code provision in U.S.C.A.

a. In addition to the text of the section, list the types of information and/or references provided there.

b. If there are C.J.S. references, or West key numbers, list one of each.

c. If there are references to law review articles, list one.

d. If there are references to administrative regulations, list one.

e. Find a note of decision about your Code section, and cite the case that generated it.

f. To find more recent notes of decisions on this same Code section, where else in U.S.C.A. would you have to look?

g. What are the advantages/disadvantages of using U.S.C.A. over U.S.C.?

4. Still clutching the U.S.C.A. volume you used to answer the previous question, look up the same Code section in U.S.C.S.

a. Are the cases annotated in U.S.C.A. the same as those annotated in U.S.C.S.? If not, cite a case found in one but not the other.

b. Are there any A.L.R. annotations or Am. Jur. 2d discussions dealing with this statute? If so, list one of each.

5. In general, which set--U.S.C.A. or U.S.C.S.--did you find more helpful? Why?

6. Using Shepard's Federal Statutes Citations, Shepardize the Code section you have used in this assignment.

a. Has this section been changed or amended by Congress? If so, explain one or two of the changes and list the corresponding session law reference(s).

b. Has the validity or constitutionality of this provision been challenged in court? If so, list one citing reference and state the outcome.

c. In a paragraph or less, compare and contrast how Shepard's stacks up against the annotated codes as a tool for doing case law research on statutes.

7. Pick your favorite state.

a. Using either an official or unofficial state code, try to find a statute in the same area of law as your topic. (If you don't find a directly relevant statutory provision in 15 minutes, use the closest equivalent.) Give the citation to the statute.

b. Shepardize the state code provision. Briefly describe one or two of the significant developments, if any, in the legislative history or judicial treatment of this provision.

c. Shepardize the U.S.C. provision you used in answering Questions 1 - 6 to determine whether any court in your favorite state has cited this statute? If so, give one citing reference.

8. On WESTLAW, use "find" to retrieve the state statutory provision from Question 7. On LEXIS, use "lexstat" to retrieve the same statutory provision. What was your search? Which service was easier to use and why?

9. Now try a general online search in the U.S. Code for your topic. If you are really ambitious, try using a segment search for the statute title, as we did in computer lab.

(a) What was your search? What file/database did you search, and how many statute sections did you find?

(b) Were you able to find the relevant statute(s)?

(c) Which service did you prefer? Why?

10. Try a WIN and freestyle search for your topic.

(a) What was your search?

(b) Was this easier/harder, more successful/less successful than your searching in Question 9?

11. In a very brief paragraph, compare searching for statutes in the books versus online.