Build the Citation
(3 min)
Spot the Error
(30 sec)
Deconstruct the Citation
(2 min)
Capitalization, Numbers, and Symbols
(1 min)
Grammer
(1 min)
Section 5 Trivia
(1 min)
100

Bluebook citation sentence for the eleventh amendment to the Constitution of the United States.


What is:

U.S. Const. amend. XI.

?

[Rule B11] 


100

11 F.4th 26

What is "th" should not be in superscript?

[Rule 6.2 (b)]

100

What the 3d refers to in F.3d

What is the third series of the Federal Reporter?

100

Numbers _______ through _______ should generally be spelled out in text and footnotes.

What is zero through ninety-nine?

[Rule 6.2]

100

Courts have derived interpretations from "the statutory context in which it is used".

What is: 

Courts have derived interpretations from "the statutory context in which it is used."

100

Number of Section 5 members with last names starting with N.

What is 3?

[Labeeb Nazim, Sylvie Novak, and Caroline Nowak] 

200

Short form citation sentence to page four hundred and ninety-five of Brown v. Bd. of Educ., 347 U.S. 483 (1954).

What is:

Brown, 347 U.S. at 495.

?

[Rule B10.2]

200

Id.

What is Id. should be italicized?

[Rule 4.1]

200

The correct way to explain in a citation sentence that the court held that the defendant breached the contract:

A) Fruth v. Lear, 688 A.2d 35, 38 (Pa. 1998), held that the defendant breached the contract.

B) Fruth v. Lear, 688 A.2d 35, 38 (Pa. 1998), holding that the defendant breached the contract.

C) Fruth v. Lear, 688 A.2d 35, 38 (Pa. 1998) (held that the defendant breached the contract).

D) Fruth v. Lear, 688 A.2d 35, 38 (Pa. 1998) (holding that the defendant breached the contract).

What is D?

[Rule 1.5(a)(i), page 69]

200

The mistake in the following sentence: "The U.S. Supreme court found no violation in such a case."

What is Court should be capitalized?

[Rule 8(c)(ii)]

200

"A "warrantless search" "must be strictly circumscribed by the exigencies which justify its initiation."

What is: 

"A 'warrantless search' 'must be strictly circumscribed by the exigencies which justify its initiation.'"

200

How many Section 5 students determined that Mr. Shaw's house was uninhabited in Memo I?

What is 2.

300

Full Bluebook citation sentence to page twenty of the following opinion:

Rosanna Morelli, Plaintiff-Appellant

versus

Steven Webster, Defendant-Appellee

No. 16-2681

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit 

Volume 552 of the Federal Reporter, third series, beginning on page 12

Heard November 4, 2008

Decided January 7, 2009

What is:

Morelli v. Webster, 552 F.3d 12, 20 (1st Cir. 2009).

?

[Rule B10; T1.1 (p.258)] 

300

American Gothic is a work of recognized statue.

What is stature is misspelled?
300

The proper order, abbreviations, and italicization for the following signals: but see; [no signal]; see for example; see generally 

What is: [no signal]; see, e.g.,: but see; see generally?

[Rules 1.2 and 1.3] 

300

This should appear between a section symbol (§) and a numeral, but not between a dollar sign ($) and a numeral.

What is a space?

[Rule 6.2(c)-(d)]

300
In the third quarter, the coach made the decision to bench the quarterback.

What is: 

In the third quarter, the coach decided to bench the quarterback.

300

Where did Professor Schoenberger attend law school?

What is New York University School of Law.

400

Full Bluebook citation sentence to subsection (a)(6) of section 523 of title 11 of the current United States Code, published in 2018.

What is:

11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6).

?

[Rules 12, 12.3.2 (no date required), T1.1, Page 260]

]

400

(quoting J’Aire Corp. v. Gregory, 598 P.2d 60, 61 (Cal. 1979)).

What is quoting should not be italicized?

[Rule 1.5]

400

The reason that the parentheses contain different information in these two citations to the same opinion:

Dziokonski v. Babineau, 375 Mass. 555, 562 (1978).

Dziokonski v. Babineau, 380 N.E.2d 1295, 1299-1301 (Mass. 1978). 

What is the North Eastern Reporter does not unambiguously convey the jurisdiction or the court?

[Rule 10.4(b) (p.111); T1 (p. 293)]

400

The correct way to revise the sentence "§ 106 pertains to copyright." 

What is "Section 106 pertains to copyright." ?

[Rule 6.2(c) "The first word of any sentence must be spelled out."] 

400

A more active way to say: "Talking about the Buffalo Bills is how I try to relate to my new neighbors."

What is:

"I try to relate to my new neighbors by talking about the Buffalo Bills."

?

400

Where did Ms. Mast or Ms. Rasulo work this past summer? (two possible answers)

What is 

Ms. Mast - Law Clerk for Judge Villardo

Ms. Rasulo - Law Clerk at Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria

500

Bluebook citation sentence for the first page of an opinion printed in Volume 62 of Hawaii Reports, beginning on page 334, and Volume 614 of the second series of the Pacific Reporter, beginning page 936, with the following caption:

Supreme Court of Hawai'i.

PACIFIC CONCRETE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v.

Andrew J. S. KAUANOE, aka A. J. S. Kauanoe, aka Andrew Kauanoe, Defendant-Appellant.

No. 6362

July 17, 1980.

What is:

Pac. Concrete Fed. Credit Union v. Kauanoe, 614 P.2d 936, 936 (Haw. 1980).

?

[T1 (p. 283); R10.4(b) (p. 110); T6]


500

(quoting J’Aire Corp. v. Gregory, 598 P.2d 60, 61 (Cal. 1979).

What is the last parenthesis is missing?

500

This is the original quotation, and the full citation to the original source of the quotation, which both can be deduced from the following excerpt from South Dakota v. Bourland, which includes the quotation:

“Nevertheless, relying on Montana v. United States, 450 U.S. 544 (1981), the District Court held that § 10 of the Cheyenne River Act clearly abrogated the Tribe’s right to exclusive use and possession of the former trust lands. . . . However, at the end of this discussion the Court unequivocally stated that ‘what is relevant ... is the effect of the land alienation occasioned by that policy on Indian treaty rights tied to Indian use and occupation of reservation land.’ 450 U.S. at 560, n.9 (emphasis added).” S. Dakota v. Bourland, 508 U.S. 679, 685, 692 (1993).

What is 

"what is relevant ... is the effect of the land alienation occasioned by that policy on Indian treaty rights tied to Indian use and occupation of reservation land." Montana v. United States, 450 U.S. 544, 560 n.9 (1981).  

?


500

The only reason you should capitalize Plaintiff or Defendant when it is not the first word in the sentence.

What is because you are referring to the parties in the matter that is the subject of your document?

[Rule B8]

500

After the car accident, there was no bruising, the victim did not seek medical attention and was able to work the next day.

What is:

After the car accident, the victim did not bruise, did not seek medical attention, and did not have to stay home from work the next day.

500

These two Section 5 students have participated in class-wide discussion in every class session so far this semester.

Who are Mr. Hill and Ms. Santana.

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