Court of Appeals cite provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act they refer to them by U.S. Code title and section number – no date (current provision being implied), no indication of source. The odds are very high that the source relied upon by the judges or their clerks was Westlaw. ...
There are, of course,myriad books of a similar name reaching back several centuries. There are also numerous registered marks that include “Bluebook” or “Blue Book”. As applied to a legal citation style guide, however, the phrase is surely indicative of a particular source. And while boo...