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To: carranza2 who wrote (1640)	12/5/2005 10:55:43 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 2253

I don't actually use Shepards, I use (mostly) the Virginia version of Casefinder, which includes Virginia decisions at every level, including federal. I could use Lexis-Nexis but don't really have the time to work with it right now and definitely don't have time to visit a full service law library except for cases I am actually working on. I travel to full service law libraries from time to time so will keep it in the back of my mind. But (as you know) one opinion doesn't tell you the entire state of the law or even the history of that particular case. And the federal records are only available for ten years before they are archived -- well, I guess that's a good thing in this case, they're on microfiche in the National Archives (Pennsylvania, maybe.) The people to talk to would be the plaintiff's lawyers in that case, they forgot more than most of the rest of us ever knew about that type of scenario, having lived it and breathed it for many years.