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Chapter 8: Researching Across Sources
Assembling an answer that spans statutes, regulations, and cases at both the federal and state levels — the statute-regulation-case-law triangle.
Orientation
Explore the concepts from this chapterTracing the Law Across Sources
Five real chains — Rowan, Schechter Poultry, Arizona's Voter Protection Act, the ADA golf-cart split the Supreme Court resolved, and the ADA website question still open — on a swimlane timeline, so you can watch authority pass between statutes, regulations, courts, and the Constitution.
Following the Question Trail
Hold one question at a time on a real veterans-benefits problem and follow it across sources — from a secondary source to the statute, 38 C.F.R. § 3.326, and the case that answers it. Each answer produces the next question; nothing is assumed in advance.