Randall Newsome Research Binder

If you are in the 9th Circuit, you need to print out this "research binder," and keep it by your desk.  Judge Newsome, bankruptcy judge sitting in Oakland, updates it every year or so.  It is posted on the Northern District Bankruptcy Court website.

The research binder has the name, cite, and a short summary of what appears to be every published case in the 9th Circuit for the last 20 years or so.  It is broken down nicely into categories such as "Abstention," "Abandonment," etc.