Legal Research

Locate a current federal statute that has a title that begins with the same letter as your last name. . There ,are a number of ways to do this such as .going .to .the Popular Name Table of the U.S. Code or browsing through volumes of the Statutes at Large. What is the Public Law number for your statute when it was first enacted? Provide the U.S. Code citation for your statute. Find your statute in three versions of the U.S. Code ( print version of U.S.C. or U.S.C.A./U.S.C.S., Lexis/Westlaw/or Bloomberg, a web version such as Fed Sys, House of Representatives, or Cornell). Note the various features of your statute as published in each of the sources' (currency, cross references, history etc.) and write a one page (single spaced) essay comparing and contrasting these sources.