Instructions:

1. Find and provide a complete, full-form citation to the cases requested in each question. You may also be asked to find information about that case or related cases, using the West Digest and Key Number system.
2. The questions for this assignment were designed to be completed electronically using the latest version of Westlaw. Note that you could also use West's federal or state digests in print, if you had access to a law library. Also note that cases are increasingly available for free on many court websites and via other digital sources. Remember, for the purpose of this assignment, you are looking for cases. We are not yet looking for you to find the answer across all of the different possible legal research tools, but rather to be able to find cases using the tools available to research case law.

KEY NUMBER INDEX

Use WestlawNext's Key Number Index to answer the following questions.

4. a. Suppose you wanted to find cases describing the elements of a defamation claim in general. What topic and key number would you use to search for cases?

b. Using the Topic & Key Number you found in 4a, with your jurisdiction set to Minnesota, provide a full-form citation to the 2019 decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court ruling that a public high school girls' basketball coach was not a "public official" and therefore did not need to prove that defamatory statements were made with actual malice.