Cases
True or False, the comma after a case name is italicized or underlined?
False
Citing to this code is the preferred method of citing federal statutes.
What is the United States Code or U.S.C.
List one thing that must be included in an unreported case citation that is NOT included in a reported case citation?
-Case Docket #
-Database Identifier and Electronic Report #
-* before pincite
-Month/Day in Parenthetical
Is the period after Id italicized/underlined?
Yes! Always.
This introductory signal is used when cited authority clearly supports the proposition.
What is "See"?
What is the preferred reporter for the Appeals Court of Massachusetts?
North Eastern Reporter or N.E. or N.E.2d or N.E.3d
Your immediately preceding citation is "25 U.S.C. § 1915." You want to cite to section 1917 of 25 U.S.C. so you use: "Id. at § 1917."
Is this correct?
No. Shortened form should read: "Id. § 1917."
You do not need to include the first page of the case decision when citing to an unreported case. True or false?
True.
What are the 3 components of a shortened case citation (assuming you cannot use Id.)?
1. Shortened case name
2. Reporter Info.
3. Pincite
My proposition is: "Congress may not make laws which prohibit the free exercise of religion. "
Signal or no signal?
No signal. This proposition is directly stated in the cited authority (the First Amendment).
What is the correct abbreviated case name for the following:
Steven E. Clems v. Scott Jenkins; Culpeper County Sheriff's Department; Culpeper County Correctional Facility, Division of Juvenile Affairs, Department of Corrections, State of Virginia, Board of Public Safety
Clems v. Jenkins :)
The year an act was passed for a state statute must be included in the citation. True or false?
False! The year of the cited code edition must be included for a state statute, not the year the act was passed.
Identify the 3 mistakes in the following citation:
Williams v. Broadus, No. 99 CIV. 10957 MBM, 2001 WL 984714, at 7 (S.D.N.Y. 2001).
1. No italics/underlining of case name
2. No asterisk before pincite
3. Missing month & day in parenthetical
You want to cite to Thomas v. Jefimova, 532 P.3d 765 at pg. 781. The immediately preceding citation is:
Gullman v. Rodriguez, 436 F. Supp. 2d 941, 957 (S.D.G.W. 2003); Thomas v. Jefimova, 532 P.3d 765, 781 (S.D.G.W. 2024).
What is the correct citation?
Thomas, 532 P.3d at 781.
Remember no Id. when preceding citation is a string cite.
Fix the formatting of the following:
Compare Walz v. Vance, 123 P.2d 456, 789 (S.D.G.W. 2024) and Harris v. Trump, 321 P.2d 654, 987 (E.D.G.W. 2024) with Gullman v. Rodriguez, 246 P.2d 135, 369 (W.D.G.W. 2022).
Compare Walz v. Vance, 123 P.2d 456, 789 (S.D.G.W. 2024) [PARENTHETICAL], and Harris v. Trump, 321 P.2d 654, 987 (E.D.G.W. 2024) [PARENTHETICAL], with Gullman v. Rodriguez, 246 P.2d 135, 369 (W.D.G.W. 2022) [PARENTHETICAL].
What is the correct abbreviation for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama?
M.D. Ala.
What is the correct citation for section 100 of California's Probate Code in the 2008 edition of West's Annotated California Codes?
Cal. Prob. Code § 100 (West 2008).
Give the appropriate short citation for pg. 6 of the following:
Berry v. Thompson, No. 5:10-HC-2074-FL, 2011 WL 677286, at *4 (E.D.N.C. Feb. 15, 2011).
Berry, 2011 WL 677286, at *6.
How do I short cite to the majority opinion in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College at page 153 when this is my immediately preceding citation:
Students for Fair Admission, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harv. Coll., 600 U.S. 181, 191 (2023) (Jackson, J., dissenting).
Id. at 153 (majority opinion).
R10.9(b)(i) tells us we have to include parenthetical info if citing to same case but different opinion even if second source we are citing is the majority opinion.
An article makes a statement about a particular element of a crime being important. The cited source provides an overview of the principles governing that element of the crime.
What signal, if any, and do I need a parenthetical?
See generally and yes, parenthetical needed.
You want to cite the case of Gary Edward Brown versus Pennsylvania State Department of Health and Doylestown Hospital. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania decided the case on September 18, 2007. The case is published in volume 514 of Federal Supplement, Second Series, starting on page 675 with specific information you are citing to on pages 679 through 680. What is the correct full citation?
Brown v. Pa. State Dep't of Health, 514 F. Supp. 2d 675, 679-80 (M.D. Pa. 2007).
How do I cite to provision (a) in section 18003 of the Affordable Care Act?
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), 42 U.S.C. § 18003(a).
Name must be included because named act but R12.3.1 instructs us to omit "The" when it starts a statute's name.
See WL screen. Give full correct citation with pincite to pg. 4.
Poindexter v. EMI Record Grp. Inc., No. 11 Civ. 559(LTS)(JLC), 2012 WL 1027639, at *4 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 27, 2012)
What is the correct short citation for the following case at page 502:
ACLU v. Virginia ex rel. Thomas, 287 U.S. 401, 499 (1967).
Thomas, 287 U.S. at 502.
R10.9 tells us to avoid using a common litigant or geographical units as shortened case names.
An article makes an argument about the interpretation of ambiguous contractual language. The source offers an alternative interpretative approach similar but different from the interpretation argued in the article.
What signal, if any, and do I need a parenthetical?
Cf. and yes, parenthetical needed.