Purpose of Assignment: This assignment engages the student in shephardizing exercises and helps the student to understand its benefits.

Course Competency: Practice Shepardizing

Instructions:

Content:

• Locate the following cases in LexisAdvance. For each case, explain which Shephard’s indicator was found, and the meaning behind the Shephard’s indicator. Also, look at the Shephards Report, and for each case identify a case that cited to your case, a case that provided positive treatment to it, and one that provided cautionary or negative treatment.
  • Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, (1963)
  • Citizens United v. FEC, 558 U.S. 310 (2010)
  • Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
  • Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 485 U.S. 933 (1988)
• Locate the following statutes/rules in LexisAdvance. For each statute/rule, explain which Shephard’s indicator was found, the meaning behind the Shephard’s indicator, and list two cases that cite to the statute/rule, along with each case’s treatment of the statute/rule.
  • 18 USC 1956
  • 21 U.S.C. 848. Narrow your report to include only those cases from California that cite to the statute.
  • Colorado Revised Statute § 15-11-502. Narrow your report to include only those cases citing to the statute from the last 15 years in Colorado.
  • 9 CFR 381.171 (d).