Reference no: EM13865119

Homework Citation

Objective: This project is intended to familiarize you with the basic source materials relevant to government and commercial contracts. To do this, I am asking you to find four references:

• a federal statute,
• a federal regulation,
• a court decision, and
• a state statute.

Follow Instructions:

1. The real challenge here is maybe in absorbing the instructions. If you use LexisNexis Academic through the UMUC Library or Google Scholar, you should be fine. Your biggest risks are:

• Providing a citation for a regulation when a statutory reference is required.
• Providing a citation for regulatory reference when I'm looking for the regulation's name.

2. For each reference, I want the official reference. Please don't answer with internet address where you might find the document. For example, for the IRS Code (the actual statue as opposed to the Public Law reference), you'll need to provide "26 USC 101," etc. For the federal regulation and the state statute, you'll need to provide similar information.

3. For the court decision, you'll need the full citation: the parties (e.g., Roe v. Wade), the volume and page number from the applicable court reporter, and the year of the decision. If this is confusing, look at the Course Content document on the US Law or look at the UMUC Library legal research page. If things are still confusing, ask me.

The Assignment Requirement

Research and find the following four references or citations:

1. The citation for the codified (official) federal statute that authorizes the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to promulgate a single, simplified, uniform Federal procurement regulation (which we know as the Federal Acquisition Regulation). It must be the citation. (Hint: Look in the US Code).

2. The citation for the federal regulation which prohibits the use by the federal government of a cost plus percentage of cost contract. Cite the regulation by the title and section number from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).

3. The 1920 case citation in which US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stated, "Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government." The reference should begin with the names of the parties (e.g., Smith v. Jones), followed by the reporter reference (e.g., 25 US 206) and the year of the decision in parentheses. It should look something like: Smith v. Jones, 9 US 100, 105 (1802) (I made this up; don't try to look this up thinking it's a real case. Page 100 would be the page on which the case starts, but the actual quotation is on page 105).

4. The State of Maryland statute - including section number - that enacts the UCC "Statute of Frauds" provision. You'll need to find the Maryland version of the Uniform Commercial Code article on sales of goods and then find the section which covers the statute of frauds. Figure out what is the appropriate citation style for the Maryland Annotated Code - it should be apparent from your research.