Abbreviations
Abbreviations
| A. | Atlantic Reporter | ||||||
| A. 2d | Atlantic Reporter, Second Series | ||||||
| AA | Alcoholics Anonymous | ||||||
| AAA | American Arbitration Association; Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 | ||||||
| AALS | Association of American Law Schools | ||||||
| AAPRP | All African People's Revolutionary Party | ||||||
| AARP | American Association of Retired Persons | ||||||
| AAS | American Anti-Slavery Society | ||||||
| ABA | American Bar Association; Architectural Barriers Act of 1968; | ||||||
| American Bankers Association | |||||||
| ABC | American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (formerly American Broadcasting Corporation) | ||||||
| ABM | Antiballistic missile | ||||||
| ABM Treaty | Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 | ||||||
| ABVP | Anti-Biased Violence Project | ||||||
| A/C | Account | ||||||
| A.C. | Appeal cases | ||||||
| ACAA | Air Carrier Access Act | ||||||
| ACCA | Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 | ||||||
| ACF | Administration for Children and Families | ||||||
| ACLU | American Civil Liberties Union | ||||||
| ACRS | Accelerated Cost Recovery System | ||||||
| ACS | Agricultural Cooperative Service | ||||||
| ACT | American College Test | ||||||
| Act'g Legal Adv. | Acting Legal Advisor | ||||||
| ACUS | Administrative Conference of the United States | ||||||
| ACYF | Administration on Children, Youth, and Families | ||||||
| A.D. 2d | Appellate Division, Second Series, N.Y. | ||||||
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 | ||||||
| ADAMHA | Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration | ||||||
| ADC | Aid to Dependent Children | ||||||
| ADD | Administration on Developmental Disabilities | ||||||
| ADEA | Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 | ||||||
| ADL | Anti-Defamation League | ||||||
| ADR | Alternative dispute resolution | ||||||
| AEC | Atomic Energy Commission | ||||||
| AECB | Arms Export Control Board | ||||||
| AEDPA | Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act | ||||||
| A.E.R. | All England Law Reports | ||||||
| AFA | American Family Association; Alabama Freethought Association | ||||||
| AFB | American Farm Bureau | ||||||
| AFBF | American Farm Bureau Federation | ||||||
| AFDC | Aid to Families with Dependent Children | ||||||
| aff'd per cur. | Affirmed by the court | ||||||
| AFIS | Automated fingerprint identification system | ||||||
| AFL | American Federation of Labor | ||||||
| AFL-CIO | American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations | ||||||
| AFRes | Air Force Reserve | ||||||
| AFSC | American Friends Service Committee | ||||||
| AFSCME | American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees | ||||||
| AGRICOLA | Agricultural Online Access | ||||||
| AIA | Association of Insurance Attorneys | ||||||
| AIB | American Institute for Banking | ||||||
| AID | Artificial insemination using a third-party donor's sperm; Agency for International Development | ||||||
| AIDS | Acquired immune deficiency syndrome | ||||||
| AIH | Artificial insemination using the husband's sperm | ||||||
| AIM | American Indian Movement | ||||||
| AIPAC | American Israel Public Affairs Committee | ||||||
| AIUSA | Amnesty International, U.S.A. Affiliate | ||||||
| AJS | American Judicature Society | ||||||
| ALA | American Library Association | ||||||
| Alcoa | Aluminum Company of America | ||||||
| ALEC | American Legislative Exchange Council | ||||||
| ALF | Animal Liberation Front | ||||||
| ALI | American Law Institute | ||||||
| ALJ | Administrative law judge | ||||||
| All E.R. | All England Law Reports | ||||||
| ALO | Agency Liaison | ||||||
| A.L.R. | American Law Reports | ||||||
| ALY | American Law Yearbook | ||||||
| AMA | American Medical Association | ||||||
| AMAA | Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act | ||||||
| Am. Dec. | American Decisions | ||||||
| amdt. | Amendment | ||||||
| Amer. St. Papers, For. Rels. | American State Papers, Legislative and Executive Documents of the Congress of the U.S., Class I, Foreign Relations, 1832–1859 | ||||||
| AMS | Agricultural Marketing Service | ||||||
| AMVETS | American Veterans (of World War II) | ||||||
| ANA | Administration for Native Americans | ||||||
| Ann. Dig. | Annual Digest of Public International Law Cases | ||||||
| ANRA | American Newspaper Publishers Association | ||||||
| ANSCA | Alaska Native Claims Act | ||||||
| ANZUS | Australia-New Zealand-United States Security Treaty Organization | ||||||
| AOA | Administration on Aging | ||||||
| AOE | Arizonans for Official English | ||||||
| AOL | America Online | ||||||
| AP | Associated Press | ||||||
| APA | Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 | ||||||
| APHIS | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service | ||||||
| App. Div. | Appellate Division Reports, N.Y. Supreme Court | ||||||
| Arb. Trib., U.S.-British | Arbitration Tribunal, Claim Convention of 1853, United States and Great Britain Convention of 1853 | ||||||
| Ardcor | American Roller Die Corporation | ||||||
| ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency | ||||||
| ARPANET | Advanced Research Projects Agency Network | ||||||
| ARS | Advanced Record System | ||||||
| Art. | Article | ||||||
| ARU | American Railway Union | ||||||
| ASCME | American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees | ||||||
| ASCS | Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service | ||||||
| ASM | Available Seatmile | ||||||
| ASPCA | American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | ||||||
| Asst. Att. Gen. | Assistant Attorney General | ||||||
| AT&T | American Telephone and Telegraph | ||||||
| ATFD | Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division | ||||||
| ATLA | Association of Trial Lawyers of America | ||||||
| ATO | Alpha Tau Omega | ||||||
| ATTD | Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division | ||||||
| ATU | Alcohol Tax Unit | ||||||
| AUAM | American Union against Militarism | ||||||
| AUM | Animal Unit Month | ||||||
| AZT | Azidothymidine | ||||||
| BAC | Blood alcohol concentration | ||||||
| BALSA | Black-American Law Student Association | ||||||
| BATF | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms | ||||||
| BBS | Bulletin Board System | ||||||
| BCCI | Bank of Credit and Commerce International | ||||||
| BEA | Bureau of Economic Analysis | ||||||
| Bell's Cr. C. | Bell's English Crown Cases | ||||||
| Bevans | United States Treaties, etc. Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776–1949 (compiled under the direction of Charles I. Bevans, 1968–76) | ||||||
| BFOQ | Bona fide occupational qualification | ||||||
| BI | Bureau of Investigation | ||||||
| BIA | Bureau of Indian Affairs; Board of Immigration Appeals | ||||||
| BID | Business improvement district | ||||||
| BJS | Bureau of Justice Statistics | ||||||
| Black. | Black's United States Supreme Court Reports | ||||||
| Blatchf. | Blatchford's United States Circuit Court Reports | ||||||
| BLM | Bureau of Land Management | ||||||
| BLS | Bureau of Labor Statistics | ||||||
| BMD | Ballistic missile defense | ||||||
| BNA | Bureau of National Affairs | ||||||
| BOCA | Building Officials and Code Administrators International | ||||||
| BOP | Bureau of Prisons | ||||||
| BPP | Black Panther Party for Self-defense | ||||||
| Brit. and For. | British and Foreign State Papers | ||||||
| BSA | Boy Scouts of America | ||||||
| BTP | Beta Theta Pi | ||||||
| Burr. | James Burrows, Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench during the Time of Lord Mansfield (1766–1780) | ||||||
| BVA | Board of Veterans Appeals | ||||||
| c. | Chapter | ||||||
| C3I | Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence | ||||||
| C.A. | Court of Appeals | ||||||
| CAA | Clean Air Act | ||||||
| CAB | Civil Aeronautics Board; Corporation for American Banking | ||||||
| CAFE | Corporate average fuel economy | ||||||
| Cal. 2d | California Reports, Second Series | ||||||
| Cal. 3d | California Reports, Third Series | ||||||
| CALR | Computer-assisted legal research | ||||||
| Cal. Rptr. | California Reporter | ||||||
| CAP | Common Agricultural Policy | ||||||
| CARA | Classification and Ratings Administration | ||||||
| CATV | Community antenna television | ||||||
| CBO | Congressional Budget Office | ||||||
| CBS | Columbia Broadcasting System | ||||||
| CBOEC | Chicago Board of Election Commissioners | ||||||
| CCC | Commodity Credit Corporation | ||||||
| CCDBG | Child Care and Development Block Grant of 1990 | ||||||
| C.C.D. Pa. | Circuit Court Decisions, Pennsylvania | ||||||
| C.C.D. Va. | Circuit Court Decisions, Virginia | ||||||
| CCEA | Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs | ||||||
| CCP | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| CCR | Center for Constitutional Rights | ||||||
| C.C.R.I. | Circuit Court, Rhode Island | ||||||
| CD | Certificate of deposit; compact disc | ||||||
| CDA | Communications Decency Act | ||||||
| CDBG | Community Development Block Grant Program | ||||||
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Community Development Corporation | ||||||
| CDF | Children's Defense Fund | ||||||
| CDL | Citizens for Decency through Law | ||||||
| CD-ROM | Compact disc read-only memory | ||||||
| CDS | Community Dispute Services | ||||||
| CDW | Collision damage waiver | ||||||
| CENTO | Central Treaty Organization | ||||||
| CEO | Chief executive officer | ||||||
| CEQ | Council on Environmental Quality | ||||||
| CERCLA | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 | ||||||
| cert. | Certiorari | ||||||
| CETA | Comprehensive Employment and Training Act | ||||||
| C & F | Cost and freight | ||||||
| CFC | Chlorofluorocarbon | ||||||
| CFE Treaty | Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty of 1990 | ||||||
| C.F. & I. | Cost, freight, and insurance | ||||||
| .F.R | Code of Federal Regulations | ||||||
| CFNP | Community Food and Nutrition Program | ||||||
| CFTA | Canadian Free Trade Agreement | ||||||
| CFTC | Commodity Futures Trading Commission | ||||||
| Ch. | Chancery Division, English Law Reports | ||||||
| CHAMPVA | Civilian Health and Medical Program at the Veterans Administration | ||||||
| CHEP | Cuban/Haitian Entrant Program | ||||||
| CHINS | Children in need of supervision | ||||||
| CHIPS | Child in need of protective services | ||||||
| Ch.N.Y. | Chancery Reports, New York | ||||||
| Chr. Rob. | Christopher Robinson, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty (1801–1808) | ||||||
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency | ||||||
| CID | Commercial Item Descriptions | ||||||
| C.I.F. | Cost, insurance, and freight | ||||||
| CINCNORAD | Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense Command | ||||||
| C.I.O. | Congress of Industrial Organizations | ||||||
| CIPE | Center for International Private Enterprise | ||||||
| C.J. | Chief justice | ||||||
| CJIS | Criminal Justice Information Services | ||||||
| C.J.S. | Corpus Juris Secundum | ||||||
| Claims Arb. under Spec. Conv., Nielsen's Rept. | Frederick Kenelm Nielsen, American and British Claims Arbitration under the Special Agreement Concluded between the United States and Great Britain, August 18, 1910 (1926) | ||||||
| CLASP | Center for Law and Social Policy | ||||||
| CLE | Center for Law and Education; Continuing Legal Education | ||||||
| CLEO | Council on Legal Education Opportunity; Chief Law Enforcement Officer | ||||||
| CLP | Communist Labor Party of America | ||||||
| CLS | Christian Legal Society; critical legal studies (movement); Critical Legal Studies (membership organization) | ||||||
| C.M.A. | Court of Military Appeals | ||||||
| CMEA | Council for Mutual Economic Assistance | ||||||
| CMHS | Center for Mental Health Services | ||||||
| C.M.R. | Court of Military Review | ||||||
| CNN | Cable News Network | ||||||
| CNO | Chief of Naval Operations | ||||||
| CNOL | Consolidated net operating loss | ||||||
| CNR | Chicago and Northwestern Railway | ||||||
| CO | Conscientious Objector | ||||||
| C.O.D. | Cash on delivery | ||||||
| COGP | Commission on Government Procurement | ||||||
| COINTELPRO | Counterintelligence Program | ||||||
| Coke Rep. | Coke's English King's Bench Reports | ||||||
| COLA | Cost-of-living adjustment | ||||||
| COMCEN | Federal Communications Center | ||||||
| Comp. | Compilation | ||||||
| Conn. | Connecticut Reports | ||||||
| CONTU | National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works | ||||||
| Conv. | Convention | ||||||
| COPA | Child Online Protection Act (1998) | ||||||
| COPS | Community Oriented Policing Services | ||||||
| Corbin | Arthur L. Corbin, Corbin on Contracts: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Rules of Contract Law (1950) | ||||||
| CORE | Congress on Racial Equality | ||||||
| Cox's Crim. Cases | Cox's Criminal Cases (England) | ||||||
| COYOTE | Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics | ||||||
| CPA | Certified public accountant | ||||||
| CPB | Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the | ||||||
| CPI | Consumer Price Index | ||||||
| CPPA | Child Pornography Prevention Act | ||||||
| CPSC | Consumer Product Safety Commission | ||||||
| Cranch | Cranch's United States Supreme Court Reports | ||||||
| CRF | Constitutional Rights Foundation | ||||||
| CRR | Center for Constitutional Rights | ||||||
| CRS | Congressional Research Service; Community Relations Service | ||||||
| CRT | Critical race theory | ||||||
| CSA | Community Services Administration | ||||||
| CSAP | Center for Substance Abuse Prevention | ||||||
| CSAT | Center for Substance Abuse Treatment | ||||||
| CSC | Civil Service Commission | ||||||
| CSCE | Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe | ||||||
| CSG | Council of State Governments | ||||||
| CSO | Community Service Organization | ||||||
| CSP | Center for the Study of the Presidency | ||||||
| C-SPAN | Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network | ||||||
| CSRS | Cooperative State Research Service | ||||||
| CSWPL | Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law | ||||||
| CTA | Cum testamento annexo (with the will attached) | ||||||
| Ct. Ap. D.C. | Court of Appeals, District of Columbia | ||||||
| Ct. App. No. Ireland | Court of Appeals, Northern Ireland | ||||||
| Ct. Cl. | Court of Claims, United States | ||||||
| Ct. Crim. Apps. | Court of Criminal Appeals (England) | ||||||
| Ct. of Sess., Scot. | Court of Sessions, Scotland | ||||||
| CTI | Consolidated taxable income | ||||||
| CU | Credit union | ||||||
| CUNY | City University of New York | ||||||
| Cush. | Cushing's Massachusetts Reports | ||||||
| CWA | Civil Works Administration; Clean Water Act | ||||||
| DACORB | Department of the Army Conscientious Objector Review Board | ||||||
| Dall. | Dallas's Pennsylvania and United States Reports | ||||||
| DAR | Daughters of the American Revolution | ||||||
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | ||||||
| DAVA | Defense Audiovisual Agency | ||||||
| D.C. | United States District Court; District of Columbia | ||||||
| D.C. Del. | United States District Court, Delaware | ||||||
| D.C. Mass. | United States District Court, Massachusetts | ||||||
| D.C. Md. | United States District Court, Maryland | ||||||
| D.C.N.D.Cal. | United States District Court, Northern District, California | ||||||
| D.C.N.Y. | United States District Court, New York | ||||||
| D.C.Pa. | United States District Court, Pennsylvania | ||||||
| DCS | Deputy Chiefs of Staff | ||||||
| DCZ | District of the Canal Zone | ||||||
| DDT | Dichlorodiphenyltricloroethane | ||||||
| DEA | Drug Enforcement Administration | ||||||
| Decl. Lond. | Declaration of London, February 26, 1909 | ||||||
| Dev. & B. | Devereux & Battle's North Carolina Reports | ||||||
| DFL | Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor | ||||||
| DFTA | Department for the Aging | ||||||
| Dig. U.S. Practice in Intl. Law | Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law | ||||||
| Dist. Ct. | D.C. United States District Court, District of Columbia | ||||||
| D.L.R. | Dominion Law Reports (Canada) | ||||||
| DMCA | Digital Millennium Copyright Act | ||||||
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid | ||||||
| Dnase | Deoxyribonuclease | ||||||
| DNC | Democratic National Committee | ||||||
| DOC | Department of Commerce | ||||||
| DOD | Department of Defense | ||||||
| DODEA | Department of Defense Education Activity | ||||||
| Dodson | Dodson's Reports, English Admiralty Courts | ||||||
| DOE | Department of Energy | ||||||
| DOER | Department of Employee Relations | ||||||
| DOJ | Department of Justice | ||||||
| DOL | Department of Labor | ||||||
| DOMA | Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 | ||||||
| DOS | Disk operating system | ||||||
| DOT | Department of Transportation | ||||||
| DPT | Diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus | ||||||
| DRI | Defense Research Institute | ||||||
| DSAA | Defense Security Assistance Agency | ||||||
| DUI | Driving under the influence; driving under intoxication | ||||||
| DVD | Digital versatile disc | ||||||
| DWI | Driving while intoxicated | ||||||
| EAHCA | Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 | ||||||
| EBT | Examination before trial | ||||||
| E.coli | Escherichia coli | ||||||
| ECPA | Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 | ||||||
| ECSC | Treaty of the European Coal and Steel Community | ||||||
| EDA | Economic Development Administration | ||||||
| EDF | Environmental Defense Fund | ||||||
| E.D.N.Y. | Eastern District, New York | ||||||
| EDP | Electronic data processing | ||||||
| E.D. Pa. | Eastern-District, Pennsylvania | ||||||
| EDSC | Eastern District, South Carolina | ||||||
| EDT | Eastern daylight time | ||||||
| E.D. Va. | Eastern District, Virginia | ||||||
| EEC | European Economic Community; European Economic Community Treaty | ||||||
| EEOC | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | ||||||
| EFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation | ||||||
| EFT | Electronic funds transfer | ||||||
| Eliz. | Queen Elizabeth (Great Britain) | ||||||
| Em. App. | Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals | ||||||
| ENE | Early neutral evaluation | ||||||
| Eng. Rep. | English Reports | ||||||
| EOP | Executive Office of the President | ||||||
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency; Equal Pay Act of 1963 | ||||||
| ERA | Equal Rights Amendment | ||||||
| ERDC | Energy Research and Development Commission | ||||||
| ERISA | Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 | ||||||
| ERS | Economic Research Service | ||||||
| ERTA | Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 | ||||||
| ESA | Endangered Species Act of 1973 | ||||||
| ESF | Emergency support function; Economic Support Fund | ||||||
| ESRD | End-Stage Renal Disease Program | ||||||
| ETA | Employment and Training Administration | ||||||
| ETS | Environmental tobacco smoke | ||||||
| et seq. | Et sequentes or et sequentia (“and the following”) | ||||||
| EU | European Union | ||||||
| Euratom | European Atomic Energy Community | ||||||
| Eur. Ct. H.R. | European Court of Human Rights | ||||||
| Ex. | English Exchequer Reports, Welsby, Hurlstone & Gordon | ||||||
| Exch. | Exchequer Reports (Welsby, Hurlstone & Gordon) | ||||||
| Ex Com | Executive Committee of the National Security Council | ||||||
| Eximbank | Export-Import Bank of the United States | ||||||
| F. | Federal Reporter | ||||||
| F. 2d | Federal Reporter, Second Series | ||||||
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration; Federal Arbitration Act | ||||||
| FAAA | Federal Alcohol Administration Act | ||||||
| FACE | Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 | ||||||
| FACT | Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force | ||||||
| FAIRA | Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 | ||||||
| FAMLA | Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 | ||||||
| Fannie Mae | Federal National Mortgage Association | ||||||
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | ||||||
| FAR | Federal Acquisition Regulations | ||||||
| FAS | Foreign Agricultural Service | ||||||
| FBA | Federal Bar Association | ||||||
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation | ||||||
| FCA | Farm Credit Administration | ||||||
| F. Cas. | Federal Cases | ||||||
| FCC | Federal Communications Commission | ||||||
| FCIA | Foreign Credit Insurance Association | ||||||
| FCIC | Federal Crop Insurance Corporation | ||||||
| FCLAA | Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act | ||||||
| FCRA | Fair Credit Reporting Act | ||||||
| FCU | Federal credit unions | ||||||
| FCUA | Federal Credit Union Act | ||||||
| FCZ | Fishery Conservation Zone | ||||||
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration | ||||||
| FDIC | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | ||||||
| FDPC | Federal Data Processing Center | ||||||
| FEC | Federal Election Commission | ||||||
| FECA | Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 | ||||||
| Fed. Cas. | Federal Cases | ||||||
| FEHA | Fair Employment and Housing Act | ||||||
| FEHBA | Federal Employees Health Benefit Act | ||||||
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency | ||||||
| FERC | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | ||||||
| FFB | Federal Financing Bank | ||||||
| FFDC | Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act | ||||||
| FGIS | Federal Grain Inspection Service | ||||||
| FHA | Federal Housing Administration | ||||||
| FHAA | Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1998 | ||||||
| FHWA | Federal Highway Administration | ||||||
| FIA | Federal Insurance Administration | ||||||
| FIC | Federal Information Centers; Federation of Insurance Counsel | ||||||
| FICA | Federal Insurance Contributions Act | ||||||
| FIFRA | Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act | ||||||
| FIP | Forestry Incentives Program | ||||||
| FIRREA | Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 | ||||||
| FISA | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 | ||||||
| FISC | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review | ||||||
| FJC | Federal Judicial Center | ||||||
| FLSA | Fair Labor Standards Act | ||||||
| FMC | Federal Maritime Commission | ||||||
| FMCS | Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service | ||||||
| FmHA | Farmers Home Administration | ||||||
| FMLA | Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 | ||||||
| FNMA | Federal National Mortgage Association, “Fannie Mae” | ||||||
| F.O.B. | Free on board | ||||||
| FOIA | Freedom of Information Act | ||||||
| FOMC | Federal Open Market Committee | ||||||
| FPA | Federal Power Act of 1935 | ||||||
| FPC | Federal Power Commission | ||||||
| FPMR | Federal Property Management Regulations | ||||||
| FPRS | Federal Property Resources Service | ||||||
| FR | Federal Register | ||||||
| FRA | Federal Railroad Administration | ||||||
| FRB | Federal Reserve Board | ||||||
| FRC | Federal Radio Commission | ||||||
| F.R.D. | Federal Rules Decisions | ||||||
| FSA | Family Support Act | ||||||
| FSB | Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (the Federal Security Service of Russia) | ||||||
| FSLIC | Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation | ||||||
| FSQS | Food Safety and Quality Service | ||||||
| FSS | Federal Supply Service | ||||||
| F. Supp. | Federal Supplement | ||||||
| FTA | U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement of 1988 | ||||||
| FTC | Federal Trade Commission | ||||||
| FTCA | Federal Tort Claims Act | ||||||
| FTS | Federal Telecommunications System | ||||||
| FTS2000 | Federal Telecommunications System 2000 | ||||||
| FUCA | Federal Unemployment Compensation Act of 1988 | ||||||
| FUTA | Federal Unemployment Tax Act | ||||||
| FWPCA | Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 | ||||||
| FWS | Fish and Wildlife Service | ||||||
| GAL | Guardian ad litem | ||||||
| GAO | General Accounting Office; Governmental Affairs Office | ||||||
| GAOR | General Assembly Official Records, United Nations | ||||||
| GAAP | Generally accepted accounting principles | ||||||
| GA Res. | General Assembly Resolution (United Nations) | ||||||
| GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | ||||||
| GCA | Gun Control Act | ||||||
| Gen. Cls. Comm. | General Claims Commission, United States and Panama; General Claims United States and Mexico | ||||||
| Geo. II | King George II (Great Britain) | ||||||
| Geo. III | King George III (Great Britain) | ||||||
| GHB | Gamma-hydroxybutrate | ||||||
| GI | Government Issue | ||||||
| GID | General Intelligence Division | ||||||
| GM | General Motors | ||||||
| GNMA | Government National Mortgage Association, “Ginnie Mae” | ||||||
| GNP | Gross national product | ||||||
| GOP | Grand Old Party (Republican Party) | ||||||
| GOPAC | Grand Old Party Action Committee | ||||||
| GPA | Office of Governmental and Public Affairs | ||||||
| GPO | Government Printing Office | ||||||
| GRAS | Generally recognized as safe | ||||||
| Gr. Br., Crim. Ct. App. | Great Britain, Court of Criminal Appeals | ||||||
| GRNL | Gay Rights-National Lobby | ||||||
| GSA | General Services Administration | ||||||
| Hackworth | Green Haywood Hackworth, Digest of International Law (1940–1944) Hay and Marriott Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty, Decisions in the High Court of Admiralty during the Time of Sir George Hay and of Sir James Marriott, Late Judges of That Court (1801) | ||||||
| HBO | Home Box Office | ||||||
| HCFA | Health Care Financing Administration | ||||||
| H.Ct. | High Court | ||||||
| HDS | Office of Human Development Services | ||||||
| Hen. & M. | Hening & Munford's Virginia Reports | ||||||
| HEW | Department of Health, Education, and Welfare | ||||||
| HFCA | Health Care Financing Administration | ||||||
| HGI | Handgun Control, Incorporated | ||||||
| HHS | Department of Health and Human Services | ||||||
| Hill | Hill's New York Reports | ||||||
| HIRE | Help through Industry Retraining and Employment | ||||||
| HIV | Human immunodeficiency virus | ||||||
| H.L. | House of Lords Cases (England) | ||||||
| H. Lords | House of Lords (England) | ||||||
| HMO | Health Maintenance Organization | ||||||
| HNIS | Human Nutrition Information Service | ||||||
| Hong Kong L.R. | Hong Kong Law Reports | ||||||
| How. | Howard's United States Supreme Court Reports | ||||||
| How. St. Trials | Howell's English State Trials | ||||||
| HUAC | House Un-American Activities Committee | ||||||
| HUD | Department of Housing and Urban Development | ||||||
| Hudson, Internatl. Legis. | Manley Ottmer Hudson, ed., International Legislation: A Collection of the Texts of Multipartite International Instruments of General Interest Beginning with the Covenant of the League of Nations (1931) | ||||||
| Hudson, World Court Reps. | Manley Ottmer Hudson, ea., World Court Reports (1934—) | ||||||
| Hun | Hun's New York Supreme Court Reports | ||||||
| Hunt's Rept. | Bert L. Hunt, Report of the American and Panamanian General Claims Arbitration (1934) | ||||||
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency | ||||||
| IALL | International Association of Law Libraries | ||||||
| IBA | International Bar Association | ||||||
| IBM | International Business Machines | ||||||
| ICA | Interstate Commerce Act | ||||||
| ICBM | Intercontinental ballistic missile | ||||||
| ICC | Interstate Commerce Commission; International Criminal Court | ||||||
| ICJ | International Court of Justice | ||||||
| ICM | Institute for Court Management | ||||||
| IDEA | Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975 | ||||||
| IDOP | International Dolphin Conservation Program | ||||||
| IEP | Individualized educational program | ||||||
| IFC | International Finance Corporation | ||||||
| IGRA | Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 | ||||||
| IJA | Institute of Judicial Administration | ||||||
| IJC | International Joint Commission | ||||||
| ILC | International Law Commission | ||||||
| ILD | International Labor Defense | ||||||
| Ill. Dec. | Illinois Decisions | ||||||
| ILO | International Labor Organization | ||||||
| IMF | International Monetary Fund | ||||||
| INA | Immigration and Nationality Act | ||||||
| IND | Investigational new drug | ||||||
| INF Treaty | Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987 | ||||||
| INS | Immigration and Naturalization Service | ||||||
| INTELSAT | International Telecommunications Satellite Organization | ||||||
| Interpol | International Criminal Police Organization | ||||||
| Int'l. Law Reps. | International Law Reports | ||||||
| Intl. Legal Mats. | International Legal Materials | ||||||
| IOC | International Olympic Committee | ||||||
| IPDC | International Program for the Development of Communication | ||||||
| IPO | Intellectual Property Owners | ||||||
| IPP | Independent power producer | ||||||
| IQ | Intelligence quotient | ||||||
| I.R. | Irish Reports | ||||||
| IRA | Individual retirement account; Irish Republican Army | ||||||
| IRC | Internal Revenue Code | ||||||
| IRCA | Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 | ||||||
| IRS | Internal Revenue Service | ||||||
| ISO | Independent service organization | ||||||
| ISP | Internet service provider | ||||||
| ISSN | International Standard Serial Numbers | ||||||
| ITA | International Trade Administration | ||||||
| ITI | Information Technology Integration | ||||||
| ITO | International Trade Organization | ||||||
| ITS | Information Technology Service | ||||||
| ITT | International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation | ||||||
| ITU | International Telecommunication Union | ||||||
| IUD | Intrauterine device | ||||||
| IWC | International Whaling Commission | ||||||
| IWW | Industrial Workers of the World | ||||||
| JAGC | Judge Advocate General's Corps | ||||||
| JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff | ||||||
| JDL | Jewish Defense League | ||||||
| JNOV | Judgment non obstante veredicto (“judgment nothing to recommend it” or “judgment notwithstanding the verdict”) | ||||||
| JOBS | Jobs Opportunity and Basic Skills | ||||||
| John. Ch. | Johnson's New York Chancery Reports | ||||||
| Johns. | Johnson's Reports (New York) | ||||||
| JP | Justice of the peace | ||||||
| K.B. | King's Bench Reports (England) | ||||||
| KFC | Kentucky Fried Chicken | ||||||
| KGB | Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (the State Security Committee for countries in the former Soviet Union) | ||||||
| KKK | Ku Klux Klan | ||||||
| KMT | Kuomintang (Chinese, “national people's party”) | ||||||
| LAD | Law Against Discrimination | ||||||
| LAPD | Los Angeles Police Department | ||||||
| LC | Library of Congress | ||||||
| LCHA | Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers Compensation Act of 1927 | ||||||
| LD50 | Lethal dose 50 | ||||||
| LDEF | Legal Defense and Education Fund (NOW) | ||||||
| LDF | Legal Defense Fund, Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the NAACP | ||||||
| LEAA | Law Enforcement Assistance Administration | ||||||
| L.Ed. | Lawyers' Edition Supreme Court Reports | ||||||
| LI | Letter of interpretation | ||||||
| LLC | Limited Liability Company | ||||||
| LLP | Limited Liability Partnership | ||||||
| LMSA | Labor-Management Services Administration | ||||||
| LNTS | League of Nations Treaty Series | ||||||
| Lofft's Rep. | Lofft's English King's Bench Reports | ||||||
| L.R. | Law Reports (English) | ||||||
| LSAC | Law School Admission Council | ||||||
| LSAS | Law School Admission Service | ||||||
| LSAT | Law School Aptitude Test | ||||||
| LSC | Legal Services Corporation; Legal Services for Children | ||||||
| LSD | Lysergic acid diethylamide | ||||||
| LSDAS | Law School Data Assembly Service | ||||||
| LTBT | Limited Test Ban Treaty | ||||||
| LTC | Long Term Care | ||||||
| MAD | Mutual assured destruction | ||||||
| MADD | Mothers against Drunk Driving | ||||||
| MALDEF | Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund | ||||||
| Malloy | William M. Malloy, ed., Treaties, Conventions International Acts, Protocols, and Agreements between the United States of America and Other Powers (1910–1938) | ||||||
| Martens | Georg Friedrich von Martens, ea., Noveau recueil ge'ne'ral de traite's et autres actes relatifs aux rapports de droit international (Series I, 20 vols. [1843–1875]; Series II, 35 vols. [1876–1908]; Series III [1909—]) | ||||||
| Mass. | Massachusetts Reports | ||||||
| MCC | Metropolitan Correctional Center | ||||||
| MCCA | Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 | ||||||
| MCH | Maternal and Child Health Bureau | ||||||
| MCRA | Medical Care Recovery Act of 1962 | ||||||
| MDA | Medical Devices Amendments of 1976 | ||||||
| Md. App. | Maryland, Appeal Cases | ||||||
| M.D. Ga. | Middle District, Georgia | ||||||
| Mercy | Movement Ensuring the Right to Choose for Yourself | ||||||
| Metc. | Metcalf's Massachusetts Reports | ||||||
| MFDP | Mississippi Freedom Democratic party | ||||||
| MGT | Management | ||||||
| MHSS | Military Health Services System | ||||||
| Miller | David Hunter Miller, ea., Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America (1931–1948) | ||||||
| Minn. | Minnesota Reports | ||||||
| MINS | Minors in need of supervision | ||||||
| MIRV | Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle | ||||||
| MIRVed ICBM | Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicled intercontinental ballistic missile | ||||||
| Misc. | Miscellaneous Reports, New York | ||||||
| Mixed Claims Comm., Report of Decs | Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany, Report of Decisions | ||||||
| M.J. | Military Justice Reporter | ||||||
| MLAP | Migrant Legal Action Program | ||||||
| MLB | Major League Baseball | ||||||
| MLDP | Mississippi Loyalist Democratic Party | ||||||
| MMI | Moslem Mosque, Incorporated | ||||||
| MMPA | Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 | ||||||
| Mo. | Missouri Reports | ||||||
| MOD | Masters of Deception | ||||||
| Mod. | Modern Reports, English King's Bench, etc. | ||||||
| Moore, Dig. Intl. Law | John Bassett Moore, A Digest of International Law, 8 vols. (1906) | ||||||
| Moore, Intl. Arbs. | John Bassett Moore, History and Digest of the International Arbitrations to Which United States Has Been a Party, 6 vols. (1898) | ||||||
| Morison | William Maxwell Morison, The Scots Revised Report: Morison's Dictionary of Decisions (1908–09) | ||||||
| M.P. | Member of Parliament | ||||||
| MP3 | MPEG Audio Layer 3 | ||||||
| MPAA | Motion Picture Association of America | ||||||
| MPAS | Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service | ||||||
| MPEG | Motion Picture Experts Group | ||||||
| mpg | Miles per gallon | ||||||
| MPPDA | Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America | ||||||
| MPRSA | Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 | ||||||
| M.R. | Master of the Rolls | ||||||
| MS-DOS | Microsoft Disk Operating System | ||||||
| MSHA | Mine Safety and Health Administration | ||||||
| MSPB | Merit Systems Protection Board | ||||||
| MSSA | Military Selective Service Act | ||||||
| N/A | Not Available | ||||||
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | ||||||
| NAAQS | National Ambient Air Quality Standards | ||||||
| NAB | National Association of Broadcasters | ||||||
| NABSW | National Association of Black Social Workers | ||||||
| NACDL | National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers | ||||||
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement of 1993 | ||||||
| NAGHSR | National Association of Governors' Highway Safety Representatives | ||||||
| NALA | National Association of Legal Assistants | ||||||
| NAM | National Association of Manufacturers | ||||||
| NAR | National Association of Realtors | ||||||
| NARAL | National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League | ||||||
| NARF | Native American Rights Fund | ||||||
| NARS | National Archives and Record Service | ||||||
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | ||||||
| NASD | National Association of Securities Dealers | ||||||
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | ||||||
| NAVINFO | Navy Information Offices | ||||||
| NAWSA | National American Woman's Suffrage Association | ||||||
| NBA | National Bar Association; National Basketball Association | ||||||
| NBC | National Broadcasting Company | ||||||
| NBLSA | National Black Law Student Association | ||||||
| NBS | National Bureau of Standards | ||||||
| NCA | Noise Control Act; National Command Authorities | ||||||
| NCAA | National Collegiate Athletic Association | ||||||
| NCAC | National Coalition against Censorship | ||||||
| NCCB | National Consumer Cooperative Bank | ||||||
| NCE | Northwest Community Exchange | ||||||
| NCF | National Chamber Foundation | ||||||
| NCIP | National Crime Insurance Program | ||||||
| NCJA | National Criminal Justice Association | ||||||
| NCLB | National Civil Liberties Bureau | ||||||
| NCP | National contingency plan | ||||||
| NCSC | National Center for State Courts | ||||||
| NCUA | National Credit Union Administration | ||||||
| NDA | New drug application | ||||||
| N.D. Ill. | Northern District, Illinois | ||||||
| NDU | National Defense University | ||||||
| N.D. Wash. | Northern District, Washington | ||||||
| N.E. | North Eastern Reporter | ||||||
| N.E. 2d | North Eastern Reporter, Second Series | ||||||
| NEA | National Endowment for the Arts; National Education Association | ||||||
| NEH | National Endowment for the Humanities | ||||||
| NEPA | National Environmental Protection Act; National Endowment Policy Act | ||||||
| NET Act | No Electronic Theft Act | ||||||
| NFIB | National Federation of Independent Businesses | ||||||
| NFIP | National Flood Insurance Program | ||||||
| NFL | National Football League | ||||||
| NFPA | National Federation of Paralegal Associations | ||||||
| NGLTF | National Gay and Lesbian Task Force | ||||||
| NHL | National Hockey League | ||||||
| NHRA | Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987 | ||||||
| NHTSA | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | ||||||
| Nielsen's Rept. | Frederick Kenelm Nielsen, American and British Claims Arbitration under the Special Agreement Concluded between the United States and Great Britain, August 18, 1910 (1926) | ||||||
| NIEO | New International Economic Order | ||||||
| NIGC | National Indian Gaming Commission | ||||||
| NIH | National Institutes of Health | ||||||
| NIJ | National Institute of Justice | ||||||
| NIRA | National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933; National Industrial Recovery Administration | ||||||
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology | ||||||
| NITA | National Telecommunications and Information Administration | ||||||
| N.J. | New Jersey Reports | ||||||
| N.J. Super. | New Jersey Superior Court Reports | ||||||
| NLEA | Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 | ||||||
| NLRA | National Labor Relations Act | ||||||
| NLRB | National Labor Relations Board | ||||||
| NMFS | National Marine Fisheries Service | ||||||
| No. | Number | ||||||
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | ||||||
| NOC | National Olympic Committee | ||||||
| NOI | Nation of Islam | ||||||
| NOL | Net operating loss | ||||||
| NORML | National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws | ||||||
| NOW | National Organization for Women | ||||||
| NOW LDEF | National Organization for Women Legal Defense and Education Fund | ||||||
| NOW/PAC | National Organization for Women Political Action Committee | ||||||
| NPDES | National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System | ||||||
| NPL | National priorities list | ||||||
| NPR | National Public Radio | ||||||
| NPT | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1970 | ||||||
| NRA | National Rifle Association; National Recovery Act | ||||||
| NRC | Nuclear Regulatory Commission | ||||||
| NRLC | National Right to Life Committee | ||||||
| NRTA | National Retired Teachers Association | ||||||
| NSA | National Security Agency | ||||||
| NSC | National Security Council | ||||||
| NSCLC | National Senior Citizens Law Center | ||||||
| NSF | National Science Foundation | ||||||
| NSFNET | National Science Foundation Network | ||||||
| NSI | Network Solutions, Inc. | ||||||
| NTIA | National Telecommunications and Information Administration | ||||||
| NTID | National Technical Institute for the Deaf | ||||||
| NTIS | National Technical Information Service | ||||||
| NTS | Naval Telecommunications System | ||||||
| NTSB | National Transportation Safety Board | ||||||
| NVRA | National Voter Registration Act | ||||||
| N.W. | North Western Reporter | ||||||
| N.W. 2d | North Western Reporter, Second Series | ||||||
| NWSA | National Woman Suffrage Association | ||||||
| N.Y. | New York Court of Appeals Reports | ||||||
| N.Y. 2d | New York Court of Appeals Reports, Second Series | ||||||
| N.Y.S. | New York Supplement Reporter | ||||||
| N.Y.S. 2d | New York Supplement Reporter, Second Series | ||||||
| NYSE | New York Stock Exchange | ||||||
| NYSLA | New York State Liquor Authority | ||||||
| N.Y. Sup. | New York Supreme Court Reports | ||||||
| NYU | New York University | ||||||
| OAAU | Organization of Afro American Unity | ||||||
| OAP | Office of Administrative Procedure | ||||||
| OAS | Organization of American States | ||||||
| OASDI | Old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits | ||||||
| OASHDS | Office of the Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services | ||||||
| OCC | Office of Comptroller of the Currency | ||||||
| OCED | Office of Comprehensive Employment Development | ||||||
| OCHAMPUS | Office of Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services | ||||||
| OCSE | Office of Child Support Enforcement | ||||||
| OEA | Organizacio'n de los Estados Americanos | ||||||
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer | ||||||
| OFCCP | Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs | ||||||
| OFPP | Office of Federal Procurement Policy | ||||||
| OIC | Office of the Independent Counsel | ||||||
| OICD | Office of International Cooperation and Development | ||||||
| OIG | Office of the Inspector General | ||||||
| OJARS | Office of Justice Assistance, Research, and Statistics | ||||||
| OMB | Office of Management and Budget | ||||||
| OMPC | Office of Management, Planning, and Communications | ||||||
| ONP | Office of National Programs | ||||||
| OPD | Office of Policy Development | ||||||
| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | ||||||
| OPIC | Overseas Private Investment Corporation | ||||||
| Ops. Atts. Gen. | Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States | ||||||
| Ops. Comms. | Opinions of the Commissioners | ||||||
| OPSP | Office of Product Standards Policy | ||||||
| O.R. | Ontario Reports | ||||||
| OR | Official Records | ||||||
| OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Act | ||||||
| OSHRC | Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission | ||||||
| OSM | Office of Surface Mining | ||||||
| OSS | Office of Strategic Services | ||||||
| OST | Office of the Secretary | ||||||
| OT | Office of Transportation | ||||||
| OTA | Office of Technology Assessment | ||||||
| OTC | Over-the-counter | ||||||
| OTS | Office of Thrift Supervisors | ||||||
| OUI | Operating under the influence | ||||||
| OVCI | Offshore Voluntary Compliance Initiative | ||||||
| OWBPA | Older Workers Benefit Protection Act | ||||||
| OWRT | Office of Water Research and Technology | ||||||
| P. | Pacific Reporter | ||||||
| P. 2d | Pacific Reporter, Second Series | ||||||
| PAC | Political action committee | ||||||
| Pa. Oyer and Terminer | Pennsylvania Oyer and Terminer Reports | ||||||
| PATCO | Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization | ||||||
| PBGC | Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation | ||||||
| PBS | Public Broadcasting Service; Public Buildings Service | ||||||
| P.C. | Privy Council (English Law Reports) | ||||||
| PC | Personal computer; politically correct | ||||||
| PCBs | Polychlorinated biphenyls | ||||||
| PCIJ | Permanent Court of International Justice | Series A-Judgments and Orders (1922–30) | Series B-Advisory Opinions (1922–30) | Series A/B-Judgments, Orders, and Advisory Opinions (1931–40) | Series C-Pleadings, Oral Statements, and Documents relating to Judgments and Advisory Opinions (1923–42) | Series D-Acts and Documents concerning the Organization of the World Court (1922–47) | Series E-Annual Reports (1925–45) |
| PCP | Phencyclidine | ||||||
| P.D. | Probate Division, English Law Reports (1876–1890) | ||||||
| PDA | Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 | ||||||
| PD & R | Policy Development and Research | ||||||
| Pepco | Potomac Electric Power Company | ||||||
| Perm. Ct. of Arb. | Permanent Court of Arbitration | ||||||
| PES | Post-Enumeration Survey | ||||||
| Pet. | Peters' United States Supreme Court Reports | ||||||
| PETA | People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals | ||||||
| PGA | Professional Golfers Association | ||||||
| PGM | Program | ||||||
| PHA | Public Housing Agency | ||||||
| Phila. Ct. of Oyer and Terminer | Philadelphia Court of Oyer and Terminer | ||||||
| PhRMA | Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America | ||||||
| PHS | Public Health Service | ||||||
| PIC | Private Industry Council | ||||||
| PICJ | Permanent International Court of Justice | ||||||
| Pick. | Pickering's Massachusetts Reports | ||||||
| PIK | Payment in Kind | ||||||
| PINS | Persons in need of supervision | ||||||
| PIRG | Public Interest Research Group | ||||||
| P.L. | Public Laws | ||||||
| PLAN | Pro-Life Action Network | ||||||
| PLC | Plaintiffs' Legal Committee | ||||||
| PLE | Product liability expenses | ||||||
| PLI | Practicing Law Institute | ||||||
| PLL | Product liability loss | ||||||
| PLLP | Professional Limited Liability Partnership | ||||||
| PLO | Palestine Liberation Organization | ||||||
| PLRA | Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 | ||||||
| PNET | Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty | ||||||
| PONY | Prostitutes of New York | ||||||
| POW-MIA | Prisoner of war-missing in action | ||||||
| Pratt | Frederic Thomas Pratt, Law of Contraband of War, with a Selection of Cases from Papers of the Right Honourable Sir George Lee (1856) | ||||||
| PRIDE | Prostitution to Independence, Dignity, and Equality | ||||||
| Proc. | Proceedings | ||||||
| PRP | Potentially responsible party | ||||||
| PSRO | Professional Standards Review Organization | ||||||
| PTO | Patents and Trademark Office | ||||||
| PURPA | Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act | ||||||
| PUSH | People United to Serve Humanity | ||||||
| PUSH-Excel | PUSH for Excellence | ||||||
| PWA | Public Works Administration | ||||||
| PWSA | Ports and Waterways Safety Act of 1972 | ||||||
| Q.B. | Queen's Bench (England) | ||||||
| QTIP | Qualified Terminable Interest Property | ||||||
| Ralston's Rept. | Jackson Harvey Ralston, ed., Venezuelan Arbitrations of 1903 (1904) | ||||||
| RC | Regional Commissioner | ||||||
| RCRA | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act | ||||||
| RCWP | Rural Clean Water Program | ||||||
| RDA | Rural Development Administration | ||||||
| REA | Rural Electrification Administration | ||||||
| Rec. des Decs. des Trib. Arb. Mixtes | G. Gidel, ed., Recueil des de'cisions des tribunaux arbitraux mixtes, institue's par les traite's de paix (1922–30) | ||||||
| Redmond | Vol. 3 of Charles I. Bevans, Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776–1949 (compiled by C. F. Redmond) (1969) | ||||||
| RESPA | Real Estate Settlement Procedure Act of 1974 | ||||||
| RFC | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | ||||||
| RFRA | Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 | ||||||
| RIAA | Recording Industry Association of America | ||||||
| RICO | Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations | ||||||
| RLUIPA | Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act | ||||||
| RNC | Republican National Committee | ||||||
| Roscoe | Edward Stanley Roscoe, ed., Reports of Prize Cases Determined in the High Court Admiralty before the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes and before the judicial Committee of the Privy Council from 1745 to 1859 (1905) | ||||||
| ROTC | Reserve Officers' Training Corps | ||||||
| RPP | Representative Payee Program | ||||||
| R.S. | Revised Statutes | ||||||
| RTC | Resolution Trust Corp. | ||||||
| RUDs | Reservations, understandings, and declarations | ||||||
| Ryan White CARE Act | Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Research Emergency Act of 1990 | ||||||
| SAC | Strategic Air Command | ||||||
| SACB | Subversive Activities Control Board | ||||||
| SADD | Students against Drunk Driving | ||||||
| SAF | Student Activities Fund | ||||||
| SAIF | Savings Association Insurance Fund | ||||||
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks | ||||||
| SALT I | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of 1969–72 | ||||||
| SAMHSA | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | ||||||
| Sandf. | Sandford's New York Superior Court Reports | ||||||
| S and L | Savings and loan | ||||||
| SARA | Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act | ||||||
| SAT | Scholastic Aptitude Test | ||||||
| Sawy. | Sawyer's United States Circuit Court Reports | ||||||
| SBA | Small Business Administration | ||||||
| SBI | Small Business Institute | ||||||
| SCCC | South Central Correctional Center | ||||||
| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | ||||||
| Scott's Repts. | James Brown Scott, ed., The Hague Court Reports, 2 vols. (1916–32) | ||||||
| SCS | Soil Conservation Service; Social Conservative Service | ||||||
| SCSEP | Senior Community Service Employment Program | ||||||
| S.Ct. | Supreme Court Reporter | ||||||
| S.D. Cal. | Southern District, California | ||||||
| S.D. Fla. | Southern District, Florida | ||||||
| S.D. Ga. | Southern District, Georgia | ||||||
| SDI | Strategic Defense Initiative | ||||||
| S.D. Me. | Southern District, Maine | ||||||
| S.D.N.Y. | Southern District, New York | ||||||
| SDS | Students for a Democratic Society | ||||||
| S.E. | South Eastern Reporter | ||||||
| S.E. 2d | South Eastern Reporter, Second Series | ||||||
| SEA | Science and Education Administration | ||||||
| SEATO | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization | ||||||
| SEC | Securities and Exchange Commission | ||||||
| Sec. | Section | ||||||
| SEEK | Search for Elevation, Education and Knowledge | ||||||
| SEOO | State Economic Opportunity Office | ||||||
| SEP | Simplified employee pension plan | ||||||
| Ser. | Series | ||||||
| Sess. | Session | ||||||
| SGLI | Servicemen's Group Life Insurance | ||||||
| SIP | State implementation plan | ||||||
| SLA | Symbionese Liberation Army | ||||||
| SLAPPs | Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation | ||||||
| SLBM | Submarine-launched ballistic missile | ||||||
| SNCC | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | ||||||
| So. | Southern Reporter | ||||||
| So. 2d | Southern Reporter, Second Series | ||||||
| SPA | Software Publisher's Association | ||||||
| Spec. Sess. | Special Session | ||||||
| SPLC | Southern Poverty Law Center | ||||||
| SRA | Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 | ||||||
| SS | Schutzstaffel (German, “Protection Echelon') | ||||||
| SSA | Social Security Administration | ||||||
| SSI | Supplemental Security Income | ||||||
| START I | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty of 1991 | ||||||
| START II | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty of 1993 | ||||||
| Stat. | United States Statutes at Large | ||||||
| STS | Space Transportation Systems | ||||||
| St. Tr. | State Trials, English | ||||||
| STURAA | Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 | ||||||
| Sup. Ct. of Justice, Mexico | Supreme Court of Justice, Mexico | ||||||
| Supp. | Supplement | ||||||
| S.W. | South Western Reporter | ||||||
| S.W. 2d | South Western Reporter, Second Series | ||||||
| SWAPO | South-West Africa People's Organization | ||||||
| SWAT | Special Weapons and Tactics | ||||||
| SWP | Socialist Workers Party | ||||||
| TDP | Trade and Development Program | ||||||
| Tex. Sup. | Texas Supreme Court Reports | ||||||
| THAAD | Theater High-Altitude Area Defense System | ||||||
| THC | Tetrahydrocannabinol | ||||||
| TI | Tobacco Institute | ||||||
| TIA | Trust Indenture Act of 1939 | ||||||
| TIAS | Treaties and Other International Acts Series (United States) | ||||||
| TNT | Trinitrotoluene | ||||||
| TOP | Targeted Outreach Program | ||||||
| TPUS | Transportation and Public Utilities Service | ||||||
| TQM | Total Quality Management | ||||||
| Tripartite Claims Comm., Decs. and Ops. | Tripartite Claims Commission (United States, Austria, and Hungary), Decisions and Opinions | ||||||
| TRI-TAC | Joint Tactical Communications | ||||||
| TRO | Temporary restraining order | ||||||
| TS | Treaty Series, United States | ||||||
| TSCA | Toxic Substance Control Act | ||||||
| TSDs | Transporters, storers, and disposers | ||||||
| TSU | Texas Southern University | ||||||
| TTBT | Threshold Test Ban Treaty | ||||||
| TV | Television | ||||||
| TVA | Tennessee Valley Authority | ||||||
| TWA | Trans World Airlines | ||||||
| UAW | United Auto Workers; United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implements Workers of America | ||||||
| U.C.C. | Uniform Commercial Code; Universal Copyright Convention | ||||||
| U.C.C.C. | Uniform Consumer Credit Code | ||||||
| UCCJA | Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act | ||||||
| UCMJ | Uniform Code of Military Justice | ||||||
| UCPP | Urban Crime Prevention Program | ||||||
| UCS | United Counseling Service | ||||||
| UDC | United Daughters of the Confederacy | ||||||
| UFW | United Farm Workers | ||||||
| UHF | Ultrahigh frequency | ||||||
| UIFSA | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act | ||||||
| UIS | Unemployment Insurance Service | ||||||
| UMDA | Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act | ||||||
| UMTA | Urban Mass Transportation Administration | ||||||
| U.N. | United Nations | ||||||
| UNCITRAL | United Nations Commission on International Trade Law | ||||||
| UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | ||||||
| UN Doc. | United Nations Documents | ||||||
| UNDP | United Nations Development Program | ||||||
| UNEF | United Nations Emergency Force | ||||||
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization | ||||||
| UNICEF | United Nations Children's Fund (formerly United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) | ||||||
| UNIDO | United Nations Industrial and Development Organization | ||||||
| Unif. L. Ann. | Uniform Laws Annotated | ||||||
| UN Repts. Intl. Arb. Awards | United Nations Reports of International Arbitral Awards | ||||||
| UNTS | United Nations Treaty Series | ||||||
| UPI | United Press International | ||||||
| URESA | Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act | ||||||
| U.S. | United States Reports | ||||||
| U.S.A. | United States of America | ||||||
| USAF | United States Air Force | ||||||
| USA PATRIOT Act | Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act | ||||||
| USF | U.S. Forestry Service | ||||||
| U.S. App. D.C. | United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia | ||||||
| U.S.C. | United States Code; University of Southern California | ||||||
| U.S.C.A. | United States Code Annotated | ||||||
| U.S.C.C.A.N. | United States Code Congressional and Administrative News | ||||||
| USCMA | United States Court of Military Appeals | ||||||
| USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture | ||||||
| USES | United States Employment Service | ||||||
| USFA | United States Fire Administration | ||||||
| USGA | United States Golf Association | ||||||
| USICA | International Communication Agency, United States | ||||||
| USMS | U.S. Marshals Service | ||||||
| USOC | U.S. Olympic Committee | ||||||
| USSC | U.S. Sentencing Commission | ||||||
| USSG | United States Sentencing Guidelines | ||||||
| U.S.S.R. | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | ||||||
| UST | United States Treaties | ||||||
| USTS | United States Travel Service | ||||||
| v. | Versus | ||||||
| VA | Veterans Administration | ||||||
| VAR | Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission | ||||||
| VAWA | Violence against Women Act | ||||||
| VFW | Veterans of Foreign Wars | ||||||
| VGLI | Veterans Group Life Insurance | ||||||
| Vict. | Queen Victoria (Great Britain) | ||||||
| VIN | Vehicle identification number | ||||||
| VISTA | Volunteers in Service to America | ||||||
| VJRA | Veterans Judicial Review Act of 1988 | ||||||
| V.L.A. | Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts | ||||||
| VMI | Virginia Military Institute | ||||||
| VMLI | Veterans Mortgage Life Insurance | ||||||
| VOCAL | Victims of Child Abuse Laws | ||||||
| VRA | Voting Rights Act | ||||||
| WAC | Women's Army Corps | ||||||
| Wall. | Wallace's United States Supreme Court Reports | ||||||
| Wash. 2d | Washington Reports, Second Series | ||||||
| WAVES | Women Accepted for Volunteer Service | ||||||
| WCTU | Women's Christian Temperance Union | ||||||
| W.D. Wash. | Western District, Washington | ||||||
| W.D. Wis. | Western District, Wisconsin | ||||||
| WEAL | West's Encyclopedia of American Law; Women's Equity Action League | ||||||
| Wend. | Wendell's New York Reports | ||||||
| WFSE | Washington Federation of State Employees | ||||||
| Wheat. | Wheaton's United States Supreme Court Reports | ||||||
| Wheel. Cr. Cases | Wheeler's New York Criminal Cases | ||||||
| WHISPER | Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt | ||||||
| Whiteman | Marjorie Millace Whiteman, Digest of International Law, 15 vols. (1963–73) | ||||||
| WHO | World Health Organization | ||||||
| WIC | Women, Infants, and Children program | ||||||
| Will. and Mar. | King William and Queen Mary (Great Britain) | ||||||
| WIN | WESTLAW Is Natural; Whip Inflation Now; Work Incentive Program | ||||||
| WIPO | World Intellectual Property Organization | ||||||
| WIU | Workers' Industrial Union | ||||||
| W.L.R. | Weekly Law Reports, England | ||||||
| WPA | Works Progress Administration | ||||||
| WPPDA | Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act | ||||||
| WTO | World Trade Organization | ||||||
| WWI | World War I | ||||||
| WWII | World War II | ||||||
| Yates Sel. Cas. | Yates's New York Select Cases | ||||||
| YMCA | Young Men's Christian Association | ||||||
| YWCA | Young Women's Christian Association |
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