Legal Resources

A red flag indicates:

• in cases and administrative decisions, the case or administrative decision is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
• in statutes and regulations, the statute or regulation has been amended by a recent session law or rule, repealed, superseded, or held unconstitutional or preempted in whole or in part.
• in patents, a court has held all or part of the patent invalid or invalid and not infringed; unenforceable due to the patentee's inequitable conduct; or has recognized the patent was held invalid or both invalid and not infringed in another case.

A yellow flag indicates that:

• in cases and administrative decisions, the case or administrative decision has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled.
• in statutes and regulations, the statute has been renumbered or transferred by a recent session law; that an uncodified session law or proposed legislation affecting the statute is available (statutes merely referenced, i.e., mentioned, are not marked with a yellow flag); that a notice or proposed rule affecting the regulation is available; that the statute or regulation was limited on constitutional or preemption grounds or its validity was otherwise called into doubt; or that a prior version of the statute or regulation received negative treatment from a court.
• in patents, a court has held the patent was not infringed but did not rule on its validity; held all or part of the patent valid and not infringed; or recognized the patent was held not infringed in another case.

A blue H indicates that:

• in cases and administrative decisions, the case or administrative decision has some history.
• in patents, a court has construed the meaning of terms within the patent; held the patent was infringed; held all or part of the patent valid; or held all or part of the patent valid and infringed.

A green C indicates that:

• in cases and administrative decisions, the case or administrative decision has citing references but no direct history or negative citing references.
• in statutes and regulations, the statute or regulation has citing references but no applicable history.
• in patents, the patent has citing references but no applicable history.

    1873-1919 in microfilm [KF 35]; 1919-1980 cumulative editions in stacks [KF 35]; 1981-March 2008 in Government Documents [X/A: and X 1.1/A).

    The transcripts of all debates held on the floor of Congress. Daily editions are indexed every two weeks. Cumulated for each session of Congress. Indexes by bill or resolution number, name and subject. Indexes also include a section entitled "History of Bills and Resolutions" which gives a legislative history of each bill introduced. The Congressional Record is available on the Library of Congress’s Thomas site from the 101 Congress (1989) to the present and 1994 onwards from the Government Printing Office

    A kind of weekly magazine on Congress, it reports the progress of bills, provides background information on issues, gives political analyses of elections, and lists the voting records of each Congressman and woman on important bills. Indexed, with annual cumulations.The Congressional Quarterly Weekly is available online to NMU students, faculty, & staff.