This exercise will provide the student with a detailed introduction to using the digests to find case law. Example pages from the West reporters and digests are provided and hypothetical research issues are demonstrated to show how these books are used.
Note: A brief excerpt from this lesson is available as the separate CALI Lesson "Anatomy of a Case".
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1 hour
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Lesson ID
LWR29