Abbreviations of law reports, laws and agencies

19** (or 200*) ___ Lexis = (Year, Court/Agency, Lexis-Nexis) see www.lexis.com/
19** (or 200*) ___ WL = (Year, Court/Agency, WestLaw) see www.westlaw.com/
A.2d = West’s Atlantic Reporter
AAA = American Arbitration Ass’n, www.adr.org/
ABA = American Bar Assn., www.abanet.org/
ADA = U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
AD Cases (BNA) = Americans with Disabilities Cases
ADEA = U.S. Age Discrimination in Employment Act
ALJ = Administrative Law Judge
Black, Black’s = Black’s Law Dictionary (West Pub.)
BNA = Bureau of National Affairs, www.bna.com/
CBA = Collective bargaining agreement (labor contract)
CBNC = BNA’s Collective Bargaining Negotiations & Contracts
Cal.Rptr.2d = West’s California Reporter
C.D.O.S. = California Daily Opinion Service
C.F.R. = Code of Federal Regulations
CrL = Criminal Law Reporter, www.bna.com/
DoJ; DoL = U.S. Dept. of Justice; Dept. of Labor
EEOC = U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, www.eeoc.gov/
Emp.Disc.Rep. = BNA’s Employment Discrimination Rep.
ERB, ERC = [state] Employment Relations Board, Commission
ERISA = U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act

ESOP = Employee Stock Ownership Plan
FEP Cases = BNA’s Fair Employment Cases
F.2d, F.3d = West’s Federal Reporter (U.S. Appeals Courts)

Fed. Appx. = West’s unpublished U.S. District Court opinions

Fed. Reg. (or FR) = Federal Register, www.gpo.gov/

FLSA = Fair Labor Standards Act
FMCS = Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service, www.fmcs.gov/
FMLA = Family and Medical Leave Act
FOIA = Freedom of Information Act
F.R.D. = West’s Federal Rules Decisions

FSIP = Federal Service Impasse Panel
F.Supp., F.Supp.2d = West’s Federal Supplement (U.S. District Courts)
G.E.R.R. = BNA’s Government Employees Relations Reporter
HIV = Human Immunodeficiency Virus (AIDS)
HRC = [state/local] Human Relations Cmsn.
IER Cases = BNA’s Individual Employment Rights Cases
L.A. = BNA’s Labor Arbitration Reports

LAIG = Labor Arbitration in Government (AAA and LRP)
L.Ed.2d = Lawyers Edit., U.S. Supreme Court Reports

LMRA & LMRDA = Taft-Hartley Act & Landrum-Griffin Act

LRP = Labor Relations Press, www.lrp.com/
LRRM = BNA’s Labor Relations Reference Manual
LW or L.W. = U.S. Law Week, www.bna.com/
M.J. = West’s Military Justice Reporter (military courts)
MPDLR = Amer. Bar Assn’s Mental & Physical Disabilities Law Reporter, www.abanet.org/

MSPB = U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, www.mspb.gov/
N.E.2d = West’s Northeastern Reporter
NLRA, NLRB = U.S. National Labor Relations Act [Wagner Act], Board, www.nlrb.gov/
N.W.2d = West’s Northwestern Reporter
N.Y.L.J. = New York Law Journal, www.law.com/
N.Y.S.2d = West’s New York Reporter
OPM = U.S. Office of Personnel Management, www.opm.gov/
OSHA = Occupational Safety & Health Administration, www.osha.gov/
P.2d = West’s Pacific Reporter

PBGC = Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation
PERB, PERC = [state] Public Employment Relations Board / Commission
PBC = Commerce Clearing House’s Public Bargaining Contracts, www.cch.com/

R2 = A measure of wage variation explained by a regression.
S.Ct. = West’s Supreme Court Reporter
So.2d = West’s Southern Reporter
S.E.2d = West’s Southeastern Reporter
S.W.2d = West’s Southwestern Reporter
Title VII = Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1966, 1972

ULP = Unfair Labor Practice charge (brought by labor or management)
U.S. = United States Reports (Supreme Court of the U.S.)
U.S.C.C.& A.N. = West’s U.S. Code, Congressional & Administrative News

Versus Law = an online national reporting service, www.versuslaw.com/
WARN = [U.S.] Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification Act
West; Westlaw = West Publishing, www.westlaw.com/
W.C.A.B. = [state] Workers Compensation Appeals Board
WH Cases2d = BNA’s Wage and Hour Cases