Please choose the correct ending to complete the given sentence: Finance and Business: [header] How to research court records [title] Identify the parties. [step] To research court records, you must know the legal names of the parties to the case you want to find. [substeps] The names you need to know will depend on the type of research you're doing.

Ending1: Generally, you only want to search other documents to find the exact records the court records are interested in. [title] Study any mediation and mediation forms and activities which an opposing party might have you mediate. Ending2: For example, if you want court records for everyone who has sued a particular company, you will need to know the correct legal name of the company. You can find the full legal name of a company or corporate entity by searching the corporate registration or dba records of any state in which the company does business. Ending3: Court records can only be found on-line, which means web searches of " court records " and " consumer law, " if ever they are searched on public websites. Civil court records may be organized alphabetically by state, but you must be able to find the court records that correspond to your research. Ending4: Typically, the name of the court will depend on the purpose of the case. If you're researching a civil case, you typically can find the case as the " criminal case " section of the citation.

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