Purpose of Assignment: This assignment will help students be able to locate rules, and also summarize rules they have discovered during their research.
Course Competency: Demonstrate finding rules.
Instructions:
Content:
- Locate the following rules in LexisAdvance and FastCase. You should copy and paste your search history under the citation for each rule found, to show how you located the rule.
- Find the rule preventing settlement communications from being used as evidence in federal court in FastCase
- Find the rule setting for the number of days to respond to a Complaint in Indiana courts through LexisAdvance
- Find the federal regulation making it a crime to harass a golfer in a federal park in Washington D.C. in LexisAdvance
- Find the federal rule addressing voluntary criminal pleas in FastCase
- Locate the following rules in either LexisAdvance or FastCase (your choice). You should provide a 3-4 sentence summary of each rule.
- Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(b)
- 32 CFR234.7(c)
- 9 CFR 381.171 (d) (for this regulation you should also explain which statute the regulation complements)
- 14 CFR 105.7(a) (for this regulation you should also explain which statute the regulation complements)
Format:
- To copy and paste your search history in Lexis, follow these instructions: Go to the history tab, and click View all history to open your full History in list format to see all searches, document views, and deliveries. Copy and paste the information found into your assignment.
- To copy and paste your search history in FastCase follow these instructions: You can retrieve your recent search history from the start page in the tile to the bottom left. The searches are listed according to the search terms you used. If you do not see the search you are looking for, you can click on more history to see older searches. If you click on the any of the listed searches, you will be taken directly to the corresponding search results. You can also view your most recent search history from any screen by selecting “History” from the bar at the top of the screen.
Resources:
Lexis Advance and FastCase
Grading Rubric:
Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.
Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:
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