Case Names
Which of the following is not omitted from a case name
A. First names
B. Descriptive terms like "appellee"
C. "State of"
D. Prepositions (of, to, for)
Prepositions
What is the difference in spacing between a case in the Federal Reporter and a case in the Federal Supplement Reporter
Federal reporter has no space, federal supplement has space
If you want to refer back to the same case and page, and there are no intervening cites what short form would you use.
Id.
Which of these signals does not show support?
A. See
B. Cf.
C. But see
D. Accord
C. But see
Why does every sentence in a rule statement need a citation?
because every rule comes from a different case.
Which of these combinations is permissible?
A. R.R. Ltd.
B. Ins. Inc.
C. Ins. Co.
D. Bros. L.L.C.
Ins. Co.
10.2.h
If a case is only available electronically, how does that change the citation format/formula?
Case Name+ Docket number + Source + Court Name + Full date
What is the short form formula for a case
Party name, volume + reporter at _____.
What order should these parenthetical go in.
(Stevens, J., concurring)
(holding that Ledos has the best pizza in the DMV)
(plurality opinion)
(plurality opinion)
(Stevens, J., concurring)
(holding that Ledos has the best pizza in the DMV)
Yup
or underlined, both work
Which one of these words should not be abbreviated?
A. Election
B. National
C. System
D. College
A. Election
When would you omit the name of the court in a state decision
When the case is decided in the highest court of the state
Aside from the party name, which do you keep in the short form of an electronic case
A. The docket number only.
B. The source identifier only.
C. Both
The source identifier only.
Ex. Clark, 1991 WL 55402, at *3.
Explanatory parentheticals usually begin with what kind of word?
words end in ing
present progressive
What is the proper abbreviation for a case in the federal appendix.
F. App'x
When is it permissible to keep geographical phrases like "City of" /"County of"
10.2.f
Cite this case, Thomas D. Varty, Plaintiff and Appellant, versus Kathleen A. Varty, Defendant and Appellee. This is a supreme court of North Dakota opinion issued as the 165th opinion of 2020. There is no reporter information available.
Varty v. Varty, 2020 ND 165
On page 3 of your legal memo, you cited to Nat’l Iranian Oil v. Ashland Oil, Inc., 817 F.2d 326 (5th Cir. 1987). In the same general discussion, on page 6 of your memo, you would like to cite to National Iranian Oil again, but you would like to focus your reader’s attention on information beginning on page 328 and continuing on page 329 of the court’s opinion. You have cited to other federal intermediate appellate court cases on pages 4 and 5 of your memorandum.
Nat’l Iranian Oil, 817 F.2d at 328-29.
See generally
T1
NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc. v. Committee on Offenses Against Administration of Justices
NAACP Legal Def. & Educ. Fund, Inc. v. Comm. on Offenses Against the Admin. of Just.
Cite Chiafalo v. Washignton, a December 6, 2020 case from the United States Supreme Court. The docket number is 19-465. Assume the case has not been published and you would like to cite to page 45 of the slip opinion from the Supreme Court's website (just write link).
Chiafalo v. Washington, No. 19-465, slip op. at 45 (Dec. 6, 2020), link.
How would you short cite this slip opinion.
Martians v. Aliens, No. 90210, slip op. at 56 (4th Cir Apr. 20, 2023).
Martians, slip op. at ___.
Rule 10.9(a)(iii)
What does Cf. mean and when/how would you use it?
Means “compare.” The authority is different from the main proposition but sufficiently analogous to lend support. Example: It is precisely this kind of conflict that the Supreme Court wanted to avoid when it fashioned the bright-line rule in Miranda. Cf. Davis, 512 U.S. at 461 (arguing that, when a suspect asks for counsel, the benefit of the bright-line rule is the “clarity and ease of application” that “can be applied by officers in the real world without unduly hampering the gathering of information”).
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