Assignment task: Our client is a fifty-five-year-old computer programmer who was recently terminated from his job at Techno Inc., a locally owned technology services company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He believes he was improperly terminated based on his age. He offers the fact that all of the new programmers have been twenty-five years old or younger and that several of the older programmers have been terminated for "other" reasons. The client would like to sue Techno Inc. for wrongful termination under the Ohio state law. Your supervising attorney recalls that Ohio has passed legislation called Protecting Workplace Age Diversity. This act protects employees over the age of fifty from being wrongfully terminated within two years before reaching retirement age.
Which of the following statements describes the most effective way to begin your research?
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Having been provided with a known authority, the Ohio Protecting Workplace Age Diversity Act, I would begin my research by looking up the Ohio Protecting Workplace Age Diversity Act in the index or popular name table of the United States Code because the United States Code is the official federal code.
Having been provided with a known authority, the Ohio Protecting Workplace Age Diversity Act, I would begin my research by looking up the Ohio Protecting Workplace Age Diversity Act in the index or popular name table of Page's Ohio Revised Code Annotated because Page's Ohio Revised Code Annotated is the official Ohio code and is the only source of primary
Having been provided with a known authority, the Ohio Protecting Workplace Age Diversity Act, I would begin my research by looking up the Ohio Protecting Workplace Age Diversity Act in the index or popular name table of Page's Ohio Revised Code Annotated or Baldwin's Ohio Revised Code Annotated because either of these annotated codes would provide me with both the text of the statute and the annotations to cases interpreting the statute.
Having been provided with descriptive words "age diversity," I would begin my research by searching all content in Westlaw Next or Lexis Advance.