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ALR (1st-5th, Federal)

Abbreviation for American Law Reports, a multi-volume set of articles, or annotations, on specific legal topics. An ALR volume generally contains up to 20 annotations, each of which analyzes a legal issue that is raised in an illustrative case. ALR is a secondary source that is published by West Group.

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