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A. JuriSearch® has developed its own electronic case history system
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will access up to 1,000 subsequent cases that have cited your case.
A. The database for each series
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and 4th series going back to 1934. When you do a search, the search results
page will sort the opinions by series.
A. Cal. and Cal.App. are the abbreviations for California Supreme
Court and California Appellate used when citing a case. They refer to the officially published
volumes of case reports. The official
citation will start with the number of the volume the case is reported in,
followed by Cal. or Cal.App., the series of volumes, and the number of the page
on which the case begins. After a
certain number of volumes have been published, the official reports will start
again at 1 in a new series. For
example, 71 Cal.App.3d 1 is the case that appears on the first page of the
seventy-first volume of the official California Appellate reports in the 3rd
series.
A. California Reporter is another series of published volumes
including both the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal opinions for
California. If you have a citation that
refers to Cal.Rptr. or to C.R., the citation search will not pull up that
opinion. If you have the case title,
try a By Party Name search.
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title, you can locate the official cite and case title by doing a Keyword
Search for the Cal.Rptr. cite. This
will retrieve opinions that have cited that case and will include both the
official and the Cal.Rptr. cite. For
example, if all the information you have is 125 Cal.Rptr. 352, click on Keyword
Search under Search Cases and type in the following search: “125 Cal.Rptr. 352”
A. The official page breaks are indicated throughout the
opinion. They are bold and in
brackets. For example, {Page 21 Cal.
App. 4th 156}.
A. The page break indicates the beginning of the page. All text that follows the page break should
be cited to that page.
A. You are at the Search Results page and you click on Click Here to
View Results in the 2nd series.
After browsing through the cases, you want to go back to look at 3rd
and 4th series. Clicking on
the back button of your browser will take too long. There is an easier way to go back if you remember to open your
search results in a new window BEFORE
browsing through your hits.
When you get to the Search
Results page, click on Click Here To View Results with your RIGHT mouse button
(not the left mouse button). You should
get a menu with an Open In New Window option.
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series. You now have two separate
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search results for a particular series in split screen view. You can browse through those pages and close
the window when you are done. Your
search results page will remain open in the original browser window.
You can also use this procedure
with the list of cases in Case History.
Once you click on the Case History button and have a list of cases that
have cited the opinion you are looking at, you can view a case just by clicking
on the case title. You can also right
click and open the case in a new window, look at the case and then close the
window without disturbing the previous screen.
A. We currently offer U.S. Supreme Court cases going back to 1906
with selected cases going back to 1793.
There is a link on the home page for 9th Circuit cases going
back to 1996, which are provided as a convenience. We also have links to all other Circuits back to 1995. In addition, we have links to the U.S. Code,
the Bankruptcy Code, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, etc. Please click on Federal Resources on our
home page for a complete list of federal links.
A. We have links to sites that contain bankruptcy opinions. Please click on Federal Resources on the
home page.
A. Our Daily Opinions page
posts decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals, the California Supreme Court and the California Courts of Appeal filed
the previous day. We also draft a case summary for each opinion. These decisions remain in the Daily Opinions
page until they receive their official cite and pagination.
To view the current week’s
Daily Opinions, click on View This Week’s under the Daily Opinions heading.
To customize your view by area
of law or to select a different date range, click on Search under the Daily
Opinions heading.
A. To search the Daily Opinions, clicking on Keyword Search under Search Cases. It is the choice immediately after Cal. 4th and Cal.App. 4th in the Select Database box on the right-hand side of the screen.
You can also pull up Daily
Opinions by Party Name. On the Search
Menu page, click on By Party Name under Search Cases. Type in one of the parties’ names and choose Daily Opinions from
the Select Database(s) box.
A. We update all our databases on a daily basis. When the courts release cases for
publication, we put them on our Daily Opinions page the next business day. Newly released cases will remain on the Daily
Opinions page until they are transferred to the 4th series database
with the official citation and pagination.
We incorporate any new information into CheckMate. The Daily Opinions are searchable. Click on Keyword Search and select Current
Cases in the Select Database box.
A. Words Around Hits controls the amount of context you will view
from the opinion when you view the results of your search. Your results will be displayed in split
screen view. On the left-hand side is a
list of the opinions that have a match to your search terms and on the
right-hand side is the full text of the opinion. Under each case title on the left-hand side are 10 words around
each hit or highlighted search term.
This acts as a quick reference and allows you to determine whether the
hits are relevant.
A. Yes. Click on Keyword
Search under Search Cases. Keyword
Search is defaulted to search through 2nd, 3rd, 4th series cases, all California
Codes, California Rules of Court, the Daily Opinions database and U.S. Supreme
Court Reports.
A. Yes. Click on Keyword
Search under Search Cases. The number preceding the case title in the
left-hand window is the number of hits in that opinion.
A. The number of hits indicated is the number of times your
combination of search terms was found in the database and not the number of
cases with matches. Sometimes, you will
have multiple hits in the same case.
A. To narrow your search, use the back button to return to the
search page and revise your search terms.
You can search within the text of a case that is on your screen by
clicking on Ctrl-F.
A. You can annotate the codes electronically. This allows you to bring up all cases that
contain the code section that you are interested in. In addition, you have easy access to the exact paragraph that
cites your code section. You can also
narrow your search by adding keywords or eliminating keywords. We recommend that you try this method. Most of our customers prefer this type of
annotation to a traditional annotation.
To learn more, click here.
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over it, a pop up will be displayed with the text Next Page. The arrow on the left will take you to the
previous code section.
A. Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, known as
California Building Standards, contains copyrighted materials under the
ownership of several model code publishers.
The eleven parts of Title 24 that comprise California’s Building
Standards are available for review at depository libraries, or for purchase in
paper format from the copyright holders and selected vendors. For more information, see the California
Building Standards Commission’s home page http://www.bsc.ca.gov.
A. Limited legislative history is available on the Official
California Legislative Information page.
Click on Legislative Information from our home page. Click on Bill Information. You can do a keyword search but you can only
search one legislative session at a time.
A. Click on Codes from the home page. Click on Table of Contents under the Search Codes heading on the
left-hand side. The Table of Contents
is hyperlinked; click on the section number to view the section.
A. We have all state Judicial Council forms. You can fill them out online and print
them. However, you must have Adobe
Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to use them. If you don’t have Reader, you can download
it for free. We have detailed
instructions on our site that explain how to download and install Adobe
Reader. Click here to go to
that page. If you need assistance,
please contact Technical Support at 1-877-JURISEARCH or 1-877-587-4732, option 3. (We do not have local forms, but you can
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California. From the home page, click
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A. The Case Management Conference Questionnaire is not an official
Judicial Council form but has been adopted by many local courts. The San Diego Superior Court has posted that
form on their web site. It is form
Civ351. We provide you with a link to their
page. Click on Court Information from
the JuriSearch® home page to get a list of trial courts. Click on San Diego Superior Court. Click on Business, then Local Civil Form,
then Civil Court.
A. The Certificate of
Assignment is also a local form. You
can find it on the Los Angeles County Superior Court page. It is the addendum to the Civil Case Cover
Sheet. We provide a link to the Los
Angeles County Superior Court home page. Click on California Courts Info from
the JuriSearch® home page to get a list of trial courts. Click on Los Angeles County Superior Court. Click on Forms.
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A. The Ultimate Weapon Search is only $1.00 search in the Public Records
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hits you received in each database. In
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For further details, click on
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