Chapter 1: Check Your Understanding (Laws and Business)

Which of the following citations indicates that the citation is referencing state statutory law? Choose 2 answers.

Cal. Penal Code § 11164(a) (West 2020), Ark. Code Ann. § 6-17-2401 (2020)

What do legal professionals use to analyze court decisions that are relevant to their clients' cases?

Case briefing

In the United States, who creates federal statutory law?

Congress

Which of the following is an example of federal agency regulations that impact business operations?

Internal Revenue Service rules for business tax audits

Substantive law governs a person's:

Rights and responsibilities?

The abbreviation "U.S." in the legal citation Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) references the:

United States Reports

Legal researchers will use which of the following tools to locate a court decision? Choose 2 answers.

bound volumes of reported court decisions, organized by jurisdiction, date, and courts & online legal research engines such as Lexis, Westlaw, or Bloomberg

State statutory law is created by:

elected members of the state legislature.

A legal citation for a court decision is used by legal professionals to research the law, and includes:

party names, location of the published case, court, and date of decision.

How a hearing or court case is conducted is governed by:

procedural law