The odds are very high that the source relied upon by the judges or their clerks was Westlaw. That being the case The Bluebook (rule 12.5) would call for a citation along these lines: 17 U.S.C.A. § 301(a) (Westlaw through Pub. L. No. 114-49). Instead the opinion will almost...
On the other hand, although the phrase “literary work” may not seem totally appositeThe Bluebookis surely an “original work of authorship … fixed in [a] tangible medium of expression.” So long as a competing work (theALWD Guide to Legal CitationorIntroduction to Basic Legal Citation, ...
But, See, Accord: Generating Blue Book Citations in HYPO. An interesting and important aspect of legal reasoning is the use of citations to precedent cases as justifications for legal conclusions. In this paper, we describe the standard use of citations as described in the attorney's “Blu....