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Law reports, digests, etc. -- United States.

The opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States are published officially in a set of case books called the United States Reports. See 28 U. S. C. {606}411. At the beginning of October Term 2005, the U. S. Reports consisted of 538 bound volumes and soft-cover "preliminary prints" of an additional 3 volumes; a final 4 volumes' worth of opinions also existed in individual "slip opinion" form. Volumes are added to the set at the rate of three to five per Term; they are generally between 800 and 1,200 pages long. In addition to all of the opinions issued during a particular period, a volume may contain a roster of Justices and Court officers during that period; an allotment of Justices by Federal Circuit; announcements of Justices' investitures and retirements; memorial proceedings for deceased Justices; a cumulative table of cases reported; orders in cases decided in summary fashion; reprints of amendments to the Supreme Court's Rules and the various sets of Federal Rules of Procedure; a topical index; and a statistical table summarizing case activity for the past three Court Terms. The U. S. Reports are compiled and published for the Court by the Reporter of Decisions. See 28 U. S. C. {606}673(c). Page proofs prepared by the Court's Publications Unit are reproduced, printed, and bound by private firms under contract with the U. S. Government Printing Office (GPO). The Court's Publications Officer acts as liaison between the Court and the GPO. The fourth and final generation of opinion publication is the casebound set of law books entitled United States Reports. The opinions and other materials contained in the preliminary prints are republished in this series of books. Prior to publication, all of the opinions and other materials that make up each volume undergo a final editing and indexing process. The materials are then sent to a commercial printing company under contract with the GPO, and that company prints and binds the books in accordance with the Court's specifications. The official bound volumes are sold by the Superintendent of Documents at the GPO, and can be purchased over the counter at GPO regional bookstores. The number of bound volumes published each Term varies from as few as three to as many as five, depending on the number of opinions issued during the Term. - Publisher's website.

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