A legal reference source primarily covering published decisions of federal appellate courts.
The decisions are published in paperback Federal Reporter pamphlets (Advance Sheets) shortly after they are handed down and then are issued in a hardbound volume when enough cases have accumulated to fill a book. The hard-bound volumes are consecutively numbered as they are published. After 300 volumes had been issued, a second series was started in 1924. Following the release of 999 volumes in the second series, the third series started in 1993.
A case may be found in the Federal Reporter in the volume whose number is that given first in the citation for the case. If the case was decided after 1924, the citation will refer to the second series of the Federal Reporter. For example, the case of O'Connor v. Lee-Hy Paving Co., decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1978, is cited as 579 F. 2d 194. It can be located on page 194 of volume 579 in the Federal Reporter, second series.
The Federal Reporter covers decisions by (1) the circuit court of appeals, the district courts, the former U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the former U.S. Court of Claims, and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia for the years from 1880 to 1932; (2) the U.S. Courts of Appeals and the former U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals for the years beginning with 1932; (3) the U.S. Emergency Court of Appeals from 1942 to 1961 and the U.S. Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals from 1972 to the present; and (4) the former U.S. Court of Claims from 1960 to the fall of 1982; thereafter it became the U.S. Claims Court.
CD-ROM format is available. Other federal court opinions are published in a series called the federal supplement.
She was a federal reporter for Education Week and covered Congress in the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau.
House of Representatives, which passed a federal reporter shield law by a veto-proof 398-21 vote last fall.
From 1974 to 1979 Castelli was federal reporter for National Catholic News Service, now Catholic News Service.
Federal Reporter 2nd, the Federal Supplement, or any one of a number of other federal, state and regional reporters), there often arise instances when cases are simply too new to appear in the Advance Sheets, or are not published.
Likewise, in the federal reporters, numerous courts have struggled to resolve the "stylistic dilemma of whether to use 'attorney fees,' 'attorneys fees,' 'attorney's fees,' or 'attorneys' fees'.
Malamud has scanned Federal Reporters, in the hope that he can convince users (and probably the courts) that public domain really means public domain.
Orders of the courts ... for free?
Having an intent to disseminate information to the public at the time the information is gathered is one of the more successful tests used by courts that have recognized a reporter's privilege and is often suggested for a means of defining the scope of a federal reporters shield law.