Build the Citation
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Spot the Error
(30 sec)
(30 sec)
Deconstruct the Citation
(2 min)
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Capitalization, Numbers, and Symbols
(1 min)
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Do it for the Grammar
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Section 5 Trivia
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100
Bluebook citation sentence in a litigation document 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
This is the correct place to put a comma in the sentence "Some people just wish they were actors but Mr. Stefanos has actually starred in a commercial."
What is:
"Some people just wish they were actors, but Mr. Stefanos has actually starred in a commercial."
?
100
The year Ms. Rasulo took LAWR I.
What is 2023?
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
Courts have derived interpretations from "the statutory context in which it is used".
What is the period should be inside the quotation marks?
[Courts have derived interpretations from "the statutory context in which it is used."]
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) - "Explanatory parenthetical phrases not directly quoting the authority usually begin with a present participle and should never begin with a capital letter."]
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?
[Rules 8 and B8]
200
This is the reason that there is no comma in the sentence: "Ms. Hausrath opined that Gabriel's Gate has the best wings and did not receive objections from her Section 5 colleagues."
What is "did not receive objections from her classmates" is a dependent clause OR the sentence contains only one subject?
200
The first and last name of the artist who painted this mural at Vermont Law School: 
Who is Samuel Kerson?
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
VARA is a statue designed to balance the rights of artists and art owners.
What is statute 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
This is the way to revise the following sentence to remove unnecessary nominalization: "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
The judge for whom Ms. Mast worked last summer.
Who is the Hon. Lawrence J. Vilardo?
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]
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); T1.3 (Massachusetts)]
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
These two Section 5 students worked together before law school.
Who are Mr. Gelder and Mr. Griffin?
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).
?
[T1.3 (Hawaii); R10.4(b); 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
This is how one would revise the following sentence to use parallel structure: "Judge Resendes deemed Shaw's house inhabited because Shaw stayed there overnight once, received mail at that address, personal possessions were stored in a locked closet, and Shaw kept the utilities running."
What is:
"Judge Resendes deemed Shaw's house inhabited because Shaw stayed there overnight once, received mail at that address, stored personal possessions in a locked closet, and kept the utilities running."
?
500
The two Section 5 students who have participated in class-wide discussion in every class session so far this semester.
Who are Mr. Hill and Ms. Santana?