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September 2008
ALR: Its index stands alone
For those of you who regularly use the American Law Reports (ALR) index to retrieve ALR annotations by topic, life just got easier. The comprehensive index to American Law Reports (Second through Sixth series) and ALR Federal (First and Second series) was recently released on Westlaw as a stand-alone database: ALR Index (ALRINDEX).
With the new ALRINDEX database, you can retrieve portions of the index without having to use a citation field restriction (e.g., ci(index)). In addition, ALRINDEX allows you to search the index using the Natural Language search method. For example, to retrieve portions of the index relating to attorney fees in deceptive trade practices litigation, access ALRINDEX, click the Natural Language tab, and type a description such as attorney fees for deceptive trade practices. To view the full text of an annotation cited in an ALRINDEX document, click the citation.
Index references to ALR First series will be available when the revised ALR index is released on Westlaw in October.
2008 election news—read about it in ALR: ALR annotations incorporate and analyze legal news as it breaks. That includes legal news related to the 2008 election. For example, check out Validity, Construction, and Application of State Statutes Governing "Minor Political Parties," 120 A.L.R. 5th 1, which analyzes the recent Moore v. Brunner decision mandating the placement of the Socialist Party USA and its candidates on the Ohio ballot.