TheUnited States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers' Edition, orLawyers' Edition (L. Ed. andL. Ed. 2d incase citations), is an unofficialreporter ofSupreme Court of the United Statesopinions. TheLawyers' Edition was established by theLawyers Cooperative Publishing Company ofRochester, New York in 1882, and features coverage of Supreme Court decisions going back to 1790.[1] The firstLawyers' Edition series corresponds to the officialUnited States Reports fromvolume 1 tovolume 351, whereas the second series contains cases starting from the official reportervolume 352.[2] It is currently published byLexisNexis.
TheLawyers' Edition differs from the official reporter in that the editors writeheadnotes and case summaries, as well as provide annotations to some cases, and decisions are published far in advance of the official reporter. As such, it is similar toWest's unofficialSupreme Court Reporter (S. Ct.).Lawyers' Edition case reports differ fromSupreme Court Reporter case reports in three respects. First, coverage inSupreme Court Reporter does not begin untilJohnson v. Waters, 108 U.S. 4 (1882), whileLawyers' Edition covers opinions back to the first volume ofUnited States Reports. Second, while both reporters contain headnotes written by the reporters' editors, theLawyers' Edition headnotes are not keyed to theWest American Digest System's topic and key number system.[2] Third,Lawyers' Edition historically included analytical articles, referred to as "annotations", similar to those contained inAmerican Law Reports; these annotations were eventually discontinued.
International Thomson Organization acquired Lawyers Cooperative Publishing in 1989, shortly before it merged with Thomson Newspapers to become theThomson Corporation.LexisNexis (parent of the Michie Company) acquired the rights to theLawyers' Edition, along with a number of other law publications and related assets, from the Thomson Corporation in January 1997. Thomson, in acquiringWest Publishing, was required to divest itself of many titles through aconsent decree by theUnited States Department of Justice.[2]
References
edit- ^Cohen, Morris L.; O'Connor, Sharon Hamby (1995). "The Reporting Process".A Guide to the Early Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States. Littleton, Colorado: F.B. Rothman. p. 5.ISBN 978-0-83-770468-5.OCLC 32130298 – viaHeinOnline.
- ^abcSvengalis, Kendall F. (2010). "Case Reporters".Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual (14th ed.). Westerly, Rhode Island: Rhode Island LawPress. pp. 69–70.ISBN 978-0-9767864-1-2 – viaHeinOnline.
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