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This table in the Bluebook lists the abbreviations that you should use when citing the name of a case.
What is Table 6?
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The correct font format for names of statutes.
What is plain/normal font? (No italics, no underline, no small caps.)
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Section 8, clause 8 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States.
What is U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 8?
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Ernest E. Jones, Terrence A. Larsen, and Herbert Lotmanversus Raymond W. Smith and Peter S. Strawbridge. This case was decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on January 6, 1999. It appears in volume 734, page 862, of Atlantic Reporter, Second Series. The citation is citing to a direct quotation of material found on page 865 of the opinion.
What is Jones v. Smith, 734 A.2d 862, 865 (Pa. 1999)?
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The correct citation (in a brief you are writing) for a case that was decided by the Ninth Circuit in 2016. The case is: Thomas R. Train versus Percy M. Smith, appearing the volume 929 of the Federal Reporter Third, beginning at page 216. The material you wish to cite is on page 223.
What is Train v. Smith, 929 F.3d 216, 223 (9th Cir. 2016)?
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Section 3129(a) of title 7 of the United States Code, published in 1997 in the third Supplement.
What is 7 U.S.C. § 3129(a) (Supp. III 1997)?
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The correct way to start an explanatory parenthetical.
What is with a present participial (an "ing" word of action)?
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The case of W.R. Grace & Company versus Maryland Casualty Company, et. al, was decided in the Appeals Court of Massachusetts on September 30, 1992. It appears in volume 33, page 358, of Massachusetts Appeals Court Reports and in volume 600, page 176 of North Eastern Reporter, Second Series.
What is W.R. Grace & Co. v. Md. Cas. Co., 600 N.E.2d 176 (Mass. App. Ct. 1992).
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The correct citation for Henry Hammer versus Natalie Nail, which was first decided by the Virginia Court of Appeals in 1994, as reported in the South East Second reporter, volume 800, page 45.
What is Henry v. Nail, 800 S.E.2d 45 (Va. Ct. App. 1994).
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Section 26640 of the West’s Annotated California Government Code. The date on the copyright page is 1988, and no amendments appear in the pocket part or supplement.
What is Cal. Gov’t Code § 26640 (West 1988)?
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The correct citation for this case:
What is Lazer Spot, Inc. v. Hiring Partners, Inc., 387 S.W.3d 40 (Tex. App. 2012)?
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Oliver Brown, et al., versus The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. This case was decided by the United States Supreme Court on May 17, 1954. It appears in volume 347, page 483, of UnitedStates Reports, in volume 74, page 686, of Supreme Court Reporter, and in volume 98, page 873, of Lawyers’Edition, Second Series.
What is Brown v. Bd. of Educ., 347 U.S. 483 (1954)?
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The kind of authority (mandatory or persuasive) that is a 9th Circuit opinion that originated in California but will be used in a case being litigated in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska.
What is mandatory?
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Federal Rule of Civil Procedure rule 20(a), dealing with permissive joinder of parties, published in 1994 in the appendix to title 28 of the United States Code.
What is Fed. R. Civ. P. 20(a)?
400
Pat is researching case law for his Eighth Circuit brief on a federal issue. This is the mandatory case law he should be searching.
What are Eighth Circuit cases and United States Supreme Court cases?
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The State of Georgia versus Ronnie Jack Beasley, Jr. This case was decided by the Supreme Court of Georgia on July 30, 1998. It appears in volume 269, page 620 of Georgia Reportsand in volume 502, page 235, of South Eastern Reporter, Second Series. Assume that you are citing this case in a brief to the Supreme Court of Georgia and that this court requires parallel citations to both the state and the regional reporters.
What is State v. Beasley, 269 Ga. 620, 502 S.E.2d 235 (1998)?
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Huckabee Incorporated versus the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This case was decided by the Court of Appeals of Nebraska on March 12, 2001. Its docket number is No. 2001-CV-7569. It is not reported; however, its database identifier with electronic report number is 2001 WL 21756. The relevant material appears on star pages 2 and 4.
What is Huckabee, Inc. v. NAACP, No. 2001-CV-7569, 2001 WL 21756, at *2, *4 (Neb. Ct. App. Mar. 12, 2001)?
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The proper short cite for this citation: Tex. Occ. Code Ann. § 22.411 (West 2015).
What is Occ. § 22.411?
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You want to cite to section 34-18-39 in title 34 of West’s General Laws of Rhode Island Annotated. The section appears in the 2015 main volume only. The immediately preceding citation sentence reads “34 R.I. Gen. Laws Ann. § 34-18-24(1) (West 2015); Warwick Hous. Auth. v. McLeod, 913 A.2d 1033, 1035 (R.I. 2007).”
What is § 34-18-39?
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Paula Corbin Jones, Plaintiff, versus William Jefferson Clinton and Danny Ferguson, Defendants. This case was decided in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Western Division, on July 29,1999. It appears in volume 57, page 719, of Federal Supplement, Second Series.
What is Jones v. Clinton, 57 F. Supp. 2d 719 (E.D. Ark. 1999)?