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Legal Research: 9th Circuit Materials On-line
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The 9th Circuit maintains internal “practice manuals” for its judges and law clerks. It makes two of the manuals available to the public, on-line. The most valuable is the 369-page appellate standards of review, which, at pp. 169-369, covers every civil law issue imaginable. The text leads to the most recent 9th Circuit opinions. While the focus is on appellate review standards, the cited cases typically discuss the substantive law as well. When the Alaska Supreme Court has not settled on an appellate review standard for a particular issue, the 9th Circuit’s manual is useful to find the current federal law on that standard.
The 9th Circuit also publishes on-line its immigration law manual.
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