Advance sheets

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Advance Sheets A looseleaf booklet comprising recent court decisions. (See: reports)
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Advance sheets - Paperback pamphlets published by law book publishers weekly or monthly which contain reporter cases, including correct volume number and page number. When there are sufficient cases, they are replaced by a bound volume.

Advance sheets: Updated pamphlets containing the most recently reported decisions of a court or several courts. Judicial decisions go through three different stages of printing: slip opinions, advance sheets, and final bound reporters.

the published decisions of appeals courts in all states and federal courts, which are found in federal, state and regional series (called "reporters") which are constantly updated with pamphlets called "advance sheets" which are soon followed by ...

Usually, opinions in cases are promptly published in unbound advance sheets just after they are handed down. They are subsequently collected into bound reporters when there are enough to fill a volume.

The printed copy of a single judicial opinion. Slip opinions are compiled into advance sheets. Advance sheets are then bound into volumes.
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Official reports - The publication of cumulated court decisions of state or federal courts in advance sheets and bound volumes as provided by statutory authority.

reports
n. the published decisions of appeals courts, which are constantly updated with pamphlets called "advance sheets" which are soon followed by bound volumes. These reports are available in almost all law libraries.

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