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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:
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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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