Frist year legal resources and study materials 2011
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1) Cases are written opinions issued by appellate courts that can range from a few sentences to hundreds of pages long. Students will read edited case excerpts in textbooks. 2) Lexis and Westlaw are commercial legal research services that law students can use for free. They provide access to cases, statutes, law reviews, and other materials. 3) Statutes are laws passed by legislative bodies that are available in print and online for all U.S. states and federal legislation. A statute progresses from a bill through various published iterations.
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C. You must read these three articles and quote these articles, moreover use these articles as your references.
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http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/mar/05/drones-california-police-sacramento-privacy/
http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2014/11/drones-and-aerial-surveillance
D. APA format, double space, NO INTRODUTION, NO HISTORY, because it is a team project and I need write a Laws Part on it. Other team member will do introduction and history part. SO, PLEASE just write LAWS of Drones!
E. This is the order of my paper.
1. A starting of Laws of Drones. The following is a example, you need to write like that, but you cannot copy it:
(As drones become cheaper and more capable, more police departments across the country are asking for and getting federal approval to use them for law enforcement.
But the Federal Aviation Administration only takes safety into consideration when it grants a law enforcement agency approval to use drones, leaving privacy protections to legislation—which, depending on the state in question, may or may not exist.)
2. Give a Real Example of Drones.
a) How Drones invasion of Privacy? Give a real example of it. Like Drone fly to someone’s backyard without search warrant.
b) Talk about a certain law about Drones of privacy protection.
c) How public feels about it? How public concerns about it?
3. Talk about two Police Departments have different views: Mesa County and other law enforcement agencies. You need to write down the following content on my paper.(You can get a lot information from first article).
a) Mesa County proactive role in drones and publics concerns
i. Largent Drone Program in the US
ii. 17 pages Policy Manual on Drones
b) Other Law Enforcement agencies played a more secretive role in deploying Drones.
4. Bills and Government Regulation. (You can get more information from second article).
a) Write Laws SB-142 and AB-56, and list the main points of Drones from these two laws.
b) Talk about Government Regulations.
5. The views of Gregory McNeal(You can get more information from third article)
a) Give an introduction of Gregory McNeal, like Gregory McNeal who is Professor of Pepperdine University and also is an Expert in Law and Public Policy.
b) Talk about Gregory McNeal’s Main Focus: security, technology and crime.
c) Write about Five Core Recommendations of Gregory McNeal.
d) Give more details or explain Fifth Point of McNeal. It’s following one.
(5. Legislators should recognize that technology such as geofencing and auto-redaction, may make aerial surveillance by drones more protective of privacy than human surveillance.)
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Laws reflect the culture, circumstances, and needs of society to maintain order. The document discusses the evolution of legal systems from individual revenge to centralized court systems. It also distinguishes between common law, developed through judicial precedent, and positive law set by a central authority. Finally, it categorizes different types of laws including constitutional, civil, criminal, procedural, substantive, and business laws. The document provides a broad overview of legal systems, the development of laws over time, and the different classifications of laws.
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- Legislation includes Acts of Parliament and subsidiary legislation. The legislative process in Malaysia involves bills being introduced and read in Parliament.
- Case citations include the names of parties, date, page number, volume, and abbreviation of the law report. Understanding precedents and the holdings of cases is important.
- Reading a case report involves examining the procedural history, arguments presented, judges' reasoning, and orders of the court
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Frist year legal resources and study materials 2011
- 1. Legal Resources and Study Materials Introduction to First Year Legal Research August 2011
Editor's Notes
- Trial Court decisions interpretation and application of the law does not bind any other court, appellate courts bind lower courts Suggestsion: Read as much as you can, read the cases in full and outline them, if you want to pull back or use alternative methods to study do it later once you have mastered the standard technique. Read a US supreme court case in FULL after your first or second semester.
- Legal publishing, consolidation. Lexis Nexis Academic Search Premier/Congressional. Hourly rates can be 50-150 of your hourly rate. In big firms it is often cheaper to have associates search print than use electronic. Summer interns running up bills.
- Tend to be student run and reviewed publications.
- “ Treatise ” is really a fancy word for “book”. Generally, a book that discusses a particular legal topic at some length and depth. Looseleafs – generally, a set on a given topic that’s frequently updated. Restatements – influential treatises that describe the law in a given area and guides its development.