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Using On-Line Legal Research …

17 Mar

( From “How to Win in Court” Course )
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Find the Law that Controls the Judge!

You cannot win without controlling judges.

You cannot control judges unless you research and cite controlling “legal authority” for every point you seek to make on the court’s record!

The judge is not the authority!

You must make it crystal clear on the court’s record that the judge will be reversed on appeal if he rules against you.

Otherwise, a judge is free to ignore everything you say and rule any way he pleases in spite of what the law and facts may prove to the contrary … because he knows he will not be reversed on appeal.

The appeal process will not give you another bite at the proverbial apple. Either you make your points with the trial judge by researching and properly citing controlling “legal authority”, or you run the risk of losing your case and being stuck with the judge’s unjust decision forever!

Don’t believe me?

Go tell a judge what your personal opinions are about the law and how you think he should rule in your case, and see how far it gets you!

The only opinions that count in court are the written opinions of appellate court justices who stand in judgment of trial level judges and have power to reverse them if they disagree with appellate decisions in any way!

Your opinions (no matter how clever or persuasive) count for nothing in court.

You must clearly show the judge on the record by citing official legal authorities from appellate decisions, exactly what will happen if the judges rules against you!

Controlling judges is what wins lawsuits!

You control judges by making clear on the record what higher level appellate courts have ruled in the past, what opinions those higher courts have passed down, and why the higher courts will reverse the trial judge’s orders if he rules contrary to what the appellate courts require.

You must tell the judge why you should win – by citing official legal authorities the judge is required to obey:

  • court rules,
  • constitutional provisions,
  • statutes,
  • codes, and
  • most importantly the opinions of higher courts that clarify what those rules, constitutional provisions, statutes, and codes really mean!

What you think these things mean doesn’t count! Trust me!

How you choose to read and interpret those things doesn’t count. Learn from Jurisdictionary step-by-step

The only thing that counts is how the controlling appellate courts read and interpret them, and what they say those things mean in regard to the facts of your case.

The other side will cite legal authorities for their case.

You must do the same … if you want to win.

If you’ve wandered through a law library in search of legal authority, you were probably amazed to find crowded shelves stuffed with volumes of similar-looking books differing only by the mysterious numbers printed on their spines. Books that give no hint which one might hide the key to unlock the judge’s favor in your case.

In a well-stocked law library there are thousands of books.

You cannot possibly read them all to find what you seek, and even the indexes, appendices, and annotations are a complex nightmare that requires years of experience to master.

On the other hand, on-line legal research is easy.

We show you how in our course.

Learn how to use on-line legal research and how to cite case-winning legal authority with the affordable, official, step-by-step 24-hour Jurisdictionary self-help course!

So easy an 8th grader can do it!

 

Keys to Legal Research

17 Mar

( From “How to Win in Court” Course )
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Ignorance of the Law is NO EXCUSE!

If “ignorance of the law is no excuse” then knowing how to find official law that will decide the outcome of your case is critical to winning!

Fortunately, the “law of your case” is much simpler than you might imagine and easy to find! Most cases are won or lost on very few “laws”, perhaps a single statute and 3-4 appellate court decisions interpreting how that statute applies to the facts.

If you had to go to court 30 years ago, before personal computers and the internet, you’d have to dig through the dismally dry and boring stacks of thousands of look-alike books in a law library (if you could find one nearby). Back then, winning a lawsuit required litigants to spend hour-upon-hour turning dusty pages, pulling down piles of books to spread on the library table next to their yellow pad in what was often a fruitless search for the legal support their arguments needed.

All that has changed, thanks to the internet and competition between legal research sites that is driving the price down to a reasonable level where pretty much anyone who needs to do on-line legal research can afford it.

But, will you know how?

My course materials on legal research include videos showing actual screen-shots of on-line searches so an average 8th grader with reasonable computer skills will be able to find constitutional provisions, statutes, code, and appellate court opinions to support pretty much any legal argument you can think of.

These days it’s sooo easy to do legal research on-line … an average 8th grader can do it!

Instead of digging through thousands of books differing only by the numbers printed on their impressively formidable spines, you can log-on any of the growing number of competent legal databases and, with the flick of a few keyboard fingers find thousands of cases that deal with the issues of your case in seconds!Learn from Jurisdictionary step-by-step

Google® can get you started … for free!

But, don’t rely on Google® as the final authority. Google® will provide a good start in most cases, but before you go to court to argue how the appellate opinion you found is the final say-so, you need to dig deeper.

My affordable, official, 24-hour step-by-step Jurisdictionary “How to Win in Court” self-help course explains legal research with examples you can try out for yourself. Once you finish the course you’ll know how to find appellate decisions that favor your cause … and you’ll know how to cite them to the court in proper format. You’ll know how to tell the judge why you should win by citing authorities the judge is required by law to obey: court rules, cases, constitutional provisions, statutes and codes.

Clever argument is not enough.

You cannot win without finding and citing the legal authorities that control judges.

Those who don’t know how to find and cite legal authority cannot control judges nor win on appeal so they lose needlessly!

In the heat of your lawsuit battles, you can be certain the other side will cite legal authorities favoring his case.

It’s essential to winning!

You must do the same thing if you want to win.

www.Jurisdictionary.com

 

Ninth Circuit Upholds Statute Giving Immunity In Spying Case

04 Jan

One of the Christmas presents the major telecommunication companies received last week is the opinion Hepting v. AT&T Corp. out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. That case considered whether Congress had the authority to retroactively immunize AT&T and…

 

Too Big To Fail: Is Thomson Reuters’ balance sheet so weak to be verging on bankruptcy?

25 Oct

In 12 Companies that Could Go Bankrupt Very Soon (Street Authority, Oct. 13, 2011) David Sterman lists TRI as one of 12 at-risk stocks that “could tumble in a hurry.” Sterman writes: I went in search of companies that may…

 

Lawsuit Hope and Hype

23 Aug

Hoping for the BestSee the cute little blue fellow?

He’s hoping.

Not that hope isn’t a good thing.

Hope based on truth is a good thing.

Unrealistic hope is not.

Unprepared hope is not.

Uninformed hope is not.

In other words, hope based on hype is foolishness.

Received favorable responses to our last Tips & Tactics yet some still hold legal mythology is better than learning the official rules and how to use official rules.

I want you to WIN ! ! !

But, you cannot win hoping on hype … no matter how promising the hype may seem.

Sure, it would be great if you could get out of paying a speeding ticket by claiming you copyrighted your name so the courts can’t use your name without your permission, or that your name in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS isn’t “you”, or that you’re a “person” not a “citizen” and therefore above the law and no longer subject to government force.

It would be great to go about doing as you please with no regard to man’s law, claiming you’re serving God when, by the way, scripture tells us to obey those in authority over us (and, yes, you could insist no one has authority over you).

But, I want you to WIN in court!

You will not win if you refuse to learn the rules and how to use the rules to get justice legally.

You will not win if you show up in court with silver-bullet methods to “get around the law”.

Sure, once in awhile someone skips out of a busy traffic court by getting the judge exasperated with internet legal mythology, but I’ve been to court more than a few times since 1986 when I was first sworn in (and not to any British agency, by the way!) as a member of the Florida Bar. I’ve seen judges get exasperated and let people off scott-free. I’ve seen many more escorted by the bailiff to a cell where they were left to decide if they wished to be subject to the official rules.

You choose.

We all have that choice.

It’s our prerogative in this wonderful nation.

Go to court with legal mythology sold by those who wish you to believe you are “above the law of the land”, or go to court knowing how to use the official rules to get Justice the American Way … according to law!

In 24 hours with my affordable, official Jurisdictionary “How to Win in Court” step-by-step self-help course you will know how to command judges and stop crooked lawyers in their tracks!

It’s not mythology!

It’s all based on official rules YOU can use to get justice by demanding everyone follow the rules!

That’s what too many American Heros died to give you!

  1. Law and Order.
  2. Due Process.
  3. The Rule of Law.

These are the three things true patriots fight for!

 

Does the President Have Directive Authority Over Agency Regulatory Decisions?

27 Jul

I think I would add Maryland law prot Robert V. Percival’s Who’s in Charge? Does the President Have Directive Authority Over Agency Regulatory Decisions? [SSRN] 79 Fordham Law Review 2487 (2011) to the reading list for an ALR course. Here’s…

 

Why You MUST do Legal Research …

23 May

 

You cannot win without controlling judges! 

And, you cannot control judges unless you research and cite controlling “legal authority” for every legal argument you seek to make on the court’s record!

The judge is not the legal authority!

Don’t let any judge scare you into believing otherwise!Control Judges with Jurisdictionary!

The law is the law, not the judge!

You must make it crystal clear on the court’s record that the judge will be reversed on appeal if he rules against you … because your legal research found appellate court opinions that control his jurisdictionand his decisions!

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If you don’t do what the official Jurisdictionary course teaches, the judge will be free to ignore everything you say and rule any way he pleases in spite of what the law and facts prove to the contrary …because he knows he cannot be reversed on appeal.

The appeal process will not give you another bite at the proverbial apple. Either you make your points with the trial judge by citing “legal authority” that controls him, or run the risk of losing your case and being stuck with the decision forever!

Don’t believe me?

Go tell a judge what your personal opinions are about the law and how you think he should rule in your case, and see how far it gets you!

How you choose to read and interpret the law doesn’t count a bit … not even a tiny bit!

The only thing that counts is how the appellate courts read and interpret the law, and what they say the law means in regard to the facts of your case.

The other side will cite legal authorities for their case.

You must do the same … if you want to win.

If you’ve wandered through a law library in search of legal authority, you were probably amazed to find crowded shelves stuffed with volumes of similar-looking books, differing only by the mysterious numbers printed on their spines. Books that give no hint which one might hide the key to unlock the judge’s favor in your case. In a well-stocked law library there are thousands of books.

You cannot possibly read them all to find what you seek, and even the indexes, appendices, and annotations are a complex nightmare that requires years of experience to master.

On the other hand, on-line legal research is easy.

We show you how to do it in our official course.

Learn how to use on-line legal research and how to cite case-winning legal authority in my affordable step-by-step 24-hour official Jurisdictionary self-help course!

Know how to control the judge – or you will lose!

These “Tips & Tactics” newsletters are only the very tip of the iceberg of lawsuit knowledge you need to win. If you don’t already have my 24-hour step-by-step self-help course, go to my website and order now!

Learn how to research and cite … so you can WIN!

www.Jurisdictionary.com

Dr. Frederick David Graves, JD