Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Shepard’s Citations can be used to validate both federal and state statutes, as well as court decisions, constitutional provisions and attorney general decisions.
2. West’s Regional Reporter series contains state court decisions from several states, all of which act as binding authority in the other states within the same region.
3. Proximity connectors are used to indicate whether the terms are in the same sentence, paragraph or within a specified number of terms within each other.
4. A per curium opinion is one issued by a court without being attributed to a particular justice as author of the opinion.
5. An appellate judge that agrees with the holding of the majority but for different reasons might write a separate dissenting opinion.


1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. False

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