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A Legal Research Newsletter for Federal Government from West
August/September 2008
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A Law by Another Name
Suppose you want to retrieve an Arizona statute known as the Last Call Bill. You've tried searching the Arizona Statutes–Annotated database (AZ-ST-ANN) using the phrase last call and found nada.
Where do you look now?
Laws frequently go by popular names. To find them, try the popular name tables available on Westlaw for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
For example, to retrieve the Last Call Bill, access AZ-ST-ANN. Click Pop. Name Table at the top of the Search page. The popular name table is displayed. Scroll down until you see Last Call Bill, alcoholic beverages, hours of sale. Click the statutory citation. The full text of the relevant section is displayed in the Link Viewer.
To retrieve federal laws using a popular name, e.g., NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act), access the United States Code Annotated database (USCA) and click Pop. Name Table at the top of the Search page. Click the letter N, then click the act's name.