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Stacks 204-211 -
Regional Reporter System


Stacks 204-211 -
Regional Reporter System


Stacks 501-519 -
State Legislative Materials

Regional Reporter System (Stacks 204-211)

Since 1887, West Publishing has published seven regional reporters covering state court decisions for multi-state geographic regions. These regional reports include cases from each state's highest court and state intermediate appellate courts. Texas cases are included in the South Western Reporter. Today, each regional reporter contains several hundred volumes and has been issued in either a second or third series.

Geographic coverage of the regional reporters:

• Atlantic Reporter (Stack 204)–Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont.
• South Eastern Reporter (Stacks 208-209) – Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia.
• Southern Reporter (Stack 209) – Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi.
• North Eastern Reporter (Stacks 205-206) - Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio.
• South Western Reporter (Stacks 209-211) – Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas.
• North Western Reporter (Stack 207) - Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin.
• Pacific Reporter (Stacks 207-208) – Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming.
• New York and California opinions are now published by West in their own series, New York Supplement and California Reporter.

State Legislative Materials (Stacks 501-519)

Each state (or a commercial publisher, under the authority of the state)publishes a series of bound volumes containing all of the laws passed during each session of its legislature. While these bound volumes are known by different terms depending on the state, they are all chronologically arranged by order of adoption and bound after the end of the session. In Texas, the bound volumes of session laws are The General and Special Laws of the State of Texas.

Each state codifies its session laws into a number of titles organized by subject that contain original laws, as modified by subsequent amendments. These codifications eliminate all repealed, superseded or expired laws. In Texas, statutes that are currently in force are published in the Texas Codes Annotated or the Texas Revised Civil Statutes Annotated.