Federal Reporter - Wikipedia Federal Reporter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search The Federal Reporter is a case law reporter in the United States that is published by West Publishing and a part of the National Reporter System. It begins with cases decided in 1880; pre-1880 cases were later retroactively compiled by West Publishing into a separate reporter, Federal Cases. The third and current Federal Reporter series publishes decisions of the United States courts of appeals and the United States Court of Federal Claims; prior series had varying scopes that covered decisions of other federal courts as well. Though West is a private company that does not have a legal monopoly over the court opinions it publishes, it has so dominated the industry in the United States that legal professionals, including judges, uniformly cite to the Federal Reporter for included decisions. It is estimated that the Fourth Series of the Federal Reporter will begin sometime around 2025.[1] The United States Reports are the official law reports of the rulings, orders, case tables, and other proceedings of the Supreme Court of the United States. Contents 1 Features and print format 2 Series 2.1 Federal Reporter 2.2 Federal Reporter, Second Series 2.3 Federal Reporter, Third Series 3 Electronic sources 4 Notes Features and print format[edit] The Federal Reporter organizes court opinions within each volume by the date of the decision, and includes the full official text of the court's opinion. West editors add headnotes that summarize key principles of law in the cases, and Key Numbers that classify the decisions by topic within the West American Digest System. Only decisions designated by the courts as "for publication—those with full precedential value for which citation in court filings is permissible—are included in the Federal Reporter. "Unpublished" decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeals may be found in the Federal Appendix, also published by West. New opinions are first issued by West in weekly pamphlets called "Advance Sheets", to be eventually supplanted by the final hardbound, successively numbered volumes. Three series of Federal Reporter have been published to date. Series[edit] Federal Reporter[edit] Citation: F. Published: 1880–1924 Volumes: 300 Courts covered: Commerce Court of the United States (1911–1913, abolished) Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia (established in 1893) Court of Claims United States circuit courts (abolished in 1912) United States courts of appeals (established in 1891) United States district courts Federal Reporter, Second Series[edit] Citation: F.2d Published: 1924–1993 Volumes: 999 Courts covered: Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia (until 1932) Court of Claims (abolished in 1982) United States Claims Court[2] (established in 1982) United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (1929–1982)[3] United States courts of appeals United States district courts (until 1932)[4] United States Emergency Court of Appeals (1942–1961) Opinions List of opinions from the Federal Reporter, Second Series on Wikisource Federal Reporter, Third Series[edit] Citation: F.3d Published: 1993–present Volumes: 900+ Courts covered: United States Court of Federal Claims United States courts of appeals Opinions List of opinions from the Federal Reporter, Third Series on Wikisource Electronic sources[edit] Wikisource has original text related to this article: Federal Reporter The Federal Reporter, including its supplementary material, is also available at websites including OpenJurist.org, on CD-ROM compilations, and on West's online legal database, Westlaw. Because individual court cases are identified by case citations that consist of printed page and volume numbers, the electronic text of the opinions incorporates the page numbers of the printed volumes with "star pagination" formatting—the numbers are boldfaced within brackets and with asterisks prepended (i.e., [*4]) to stand out from the rest of the text. Though West has copyright over its original headnotes and keynotes, the opinions themselves are public domain and accordingly may be found in other sources, chiefly Lexis, Westlaw's competitor. Lexis also copies the star-paginated Federal Reporter numbering in their text of the opinions to allow for proper citation, a practice that was the subject of an unsuccessful copyright lawsuit by West against the parent company of Lexis.[5] Notes[edit] ^ Martin, Boyce F. Jr. (1999), In Defense of Unpublished Opinions, 60, Ohio St. L.J., p. 177 ^ This court was redesignated as the United States Court of Federal Claims in 1993. ^ The United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals was subsequently merged into the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. ^ United States district court opinions after 1932 are covered in the Federal Supplement, also published by West. ^ See Matthew Bender & Co. v. West Publ. Co., 158 F.3d 693 (2d Cir. 1999). 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