Module 4 Standard Citation Assignment Guide

You may use this guide as an aid in responding to the Assignment in Module 4

Assignment 4:

1. Using a Microsoft Word document, please post one federal and one state statute utilizing standard legal notation.

Note: a good way to find any case or statute is to run a Google search using terms like the following example (please don’t use these for your individual responses. Please find your own.):

Example Search terms: “Federal computer statute”—you may choose subject for the statute

Your response:

Federal Statute

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

18 U.S. Code § 1030

Example Search terms: “Kentucky murder statute”—you may choose any state and any subject for the statute

Your response:

State Statute

Kentucky Murder Statute Citation: KRS 507.027

2. In the same document, please post one federal and one state case using standard legal notation.

Example Search terms “US Supreme Court case on death penalty” (Note: The Supreme Court is not the only federal court. You may choose any federal court you want to search)

Your Response:

Federal Case

Supreme Court Case on death penalty

Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989)

Example Search terms: “Kentucky Appellate case on joint custody”

Your response:

State Case

Kentucky Supreme Court Case on Custody

Squires v. Squires 854 S.W.2d 765 (1993)

Your final submission will therefore look like the following. (You may download this document and use it as a template in making your submission.

Sample student submission

Assignment 4 response

Federal Statute

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

18 U.S. Code § 1030

State Statute

Kentucky Murder Statute Citation: KRS 507.027

Federal Case

Supreme Court Case on death penalty

Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989)

State Case

Kentucky Supreme Court Case on Custody

Squires v. Squires 854 S.W.2d 765 (1993)

Rubric for Assignment submission