The relationship between rule 18.2.1 and The Bluebook‘s various mandates to identify one’s actual source is unclear. In all likelihood this is a case where the specific (the mandate concerning statutes, for example) is intended to prevail over the more general rule. Both reflect the continu...
Absolute clarity argues for including them even when The Bluebook considers them unnecessary. In no case should there be need for an “internal quotation marks omitted” parenthetical. Tags:Bluebook, citation principles, quotations Posted in Bluebook, Cases, Constitutions, Quotations, Statutes | ...
That same bias combined with The Bluebook‘s continuing attachment to print leads to rules for statutory and treatise citations that are not followed uniformly because in the current practice environment they simply cannot be. Tags:Bluebook, cases, codes, statutes, treatises Posted in Bluebook, ...
The average elapsed time is less than two months. Furthermore, from the moment of release any court, lawyer, or commentator can cite to an Illinois Supreme Court decision in official form. That is because, at release, each decision carries complete public domain citation information. Because of...
On this point The Bluebook‘s silence is in full accord with the citation practice of lawyers and judges. The twentieth edition, like the nineteenth, appears to accept generic case citations. Statutes, Constitutions, and Court Rules What The Bluebook Says Generic citations to a constitution ...
The relationship between rule 18.2.1 and The Bluebook‘s various mandates to identify one’s actual source is unclear. In all likelihood this is a case where the specific (the mandate concerning statutes, for example) is intended to prevail over the more general rule. Both reflect the continu...
Tags:ALWD,Bloomberg Law,Bluebook,cases,Fastcase,Lexis,regulations,statutes,Westlaw Posted inAbbreviations,ALWD,Bluebook,Cases,Journal articles,Regulations,Statutes|Comments Closed Bluebook Weight Loss Program – Part Two: The Merger of Tables T6 and T13.2 ...
Posted in Abbreviations, ALWD, Bluebook, Cases, Journal articles, Regulations, Statutes | Comments Closed Bluebook Weight Loss Program – Part Two: The Merger of Tables T6 and T13.2 Friday, October 16th, 2020 The twenty-first edition of The Bluebook has eliminated the separate table that pre...
In jurisdictions where these two companies compete in print, their respective citations to state statutes exhibit the same tendency. On Lexis, even the federal rules receive this treatment: “USCS Fed Rules Civ Proc R 19” instead of “Fed. R. Civ. P. 19.” Unlike the failure to furnish...