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American law yearbook 2013 [electronic resource] : a guide to the year's major legal cases and developments / Lisa Kumar, project editor.

Detroit : Gale, Cengage Learning, c2014.

Law -- United States.

Law -- United States -- Popular works.

Justice, Administration of -- United States.

Courts -- United States.

Lawyers -- United States.

Judges -- United States.

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9781573022224 (electronic book)

1573022225 (electronic book)

Gale virtual reference library.

1 online resource (ix, 320 p.) : ill.

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Annual supplement to West's Encyclopedia of American Law that updates and expands the content with new topics, updates, biographies of prominent figures and government appointees, and other features. Each year's edition contains the full U.S. Supreme Court docket in addition to the non-Supreme Court cases.

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