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this,_st_type_id: '2',_st_content_id: '6604078',_st_inc_return: this});">Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court (5th ed., 2010)</a></span></div></li><li class=""><div id="s-lg-content-6604079" class=""><span><a href="http://libproxy.mit.edu/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t122" onclick="return springSpace.springTrack.trackLink({link: this,_st_type_id: '2',_st_content_id: '6604079',_st_inc_return: this});">Oxford Companion to American Law (2002)</a></span></div></li><li class=""><div id="s-lg-content-6604080" class=""><span><a href="http://libproxy.mit.edu/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t184" onclick="return springSpace.springTrack.trackLink({link: this,_st_type_id: '2',_st_content_id: '6604080',_st_inc_return: this});">Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (2nd ed., 2005)</a></span></div></li><li class=""><div id="s-lg-content-6604081" class=""><span><a 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