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Locating Opinions Written by a Specific Jurist

Often researchers need to locate decisions written by a specific judge. To conduct this type of search, you must use either WESTLAW or LEXIS. This feature is not yet available via the Internet. Following are examples of how to formulate searches to locate this material.

Select your database, and then you can use any of the following field identifiers to locate decisions:

	Westlaw Field Identifier	Lexis Field Identifier
Concurring	CON (name)	Concur (name) or Concurby (name)
Dissenting	DIS (name)	Dissent (name) or Dissentby (name)
Judge	JU (name)	Decision (name) or Judges (name) or Written by(name)
Lead	LE (name)	N/A
Opinions	OP (name)	Opinions (name) or Opinionby (name) or Opinions (name)
Panel	PA (name)	N/A

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