Researching Cases
As we learned during Week 1, the courts create common law. Common law is composed of published case opinions, which we find in legal libraries. Legal libraries can now be accessed online, making legal research much easier to conduct than in the past.
For this assignment, you should first watch the following video: Nexis Uni™: How to Search from the Home Page. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MUED6Lo13M) Then use Nexis Uni in the APUS library
( https://www.apus.edu/apus-library/index.html) as your research tool for accessing legal library resources to answer the questions below:
Recall there being a state supreme court case about a man who was injured after he slipped and fell on pumpkin pie in a store.
Find the case and answer the following questions:
1. Provide with the correct and full Bluebook citation to the case. 1 pt.
2. Provide with written directions containing every single step that you took to find the case inside the Nexis Uni database in our APUS Library tab up above. 4pts.
3. Briefly summarize the case and the outcome. 4pts
4. What is the Shepard’s Signal for the case and what does it mean? 1pt