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Finding Banking Case Law

The tools for finding banking case law are similar to tools used to find case law on any topic. Also, the process is the same at the state and federal court levels.

• Search the full-text of case law on LexisNexis or Westlaw.
• Pappas Law Library provides West's case digests, collections of case summaries arranged by subject area, for federal courts, including West's Federal Practice Digest (Law Indexes
  and Annex) and West's Supreme Court Digest (Pappas). Pappas also has The Massachusetts Digest for court decisions in Massachusetts, and some other jurisdictions and regional reporters.
• Additionally, you can search using the subject organization from West's Digests (i.e., the Topic and Key number system) online via Westlaw. During a research session on Lexis, you can search "by Topic or Headnote," and then select Banking law or another topical area for guidance in developing searches.
• Both services allow you to search in databases of banking law cases organized in topical categories. On Westlaw, you can use the Add a Tab feature to choose a tab of information on "Finance and Banking," and then select databases of Finance and Banking case law. On Lexis, from the main menu under "Areas of Law - by Topic," you can select "Banking and Financial Services," then select among various banking case law databases.
• Take note of citations to useful cases you find in secondary source research.
• Shepardize or Keycite interesting cases to find other related cases.
• If you are researching a line of cases that interpret a statute, use an annotated statutory code to find additional cases related to the statute.

News Sources

If you are researching a very recent or even a pending decision, update services and new sources may be the most useful resource, as publication of cases may be somewhat delayed.

• LexisNexis (password required)
  • Banking News: BANKNG; ALLNWS
• Westlaw (password required)
  • Finance and banking topical news: FINNEWS
• Current awareness sources from the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), such at the Banking Report, provide links to many new court decisions and other legal documents.
• Other Banking law looseleaf services and article databases also may be helpful.
  

Court Documents

Consult Strategies for Finding Court Documents for information on finding briefs, dockets, interlocutory orders and other case related documents.

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Last updated: Feburary 2009