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Bluebook citation sentence for the eleventh amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
What is:
U.S. Const. amend. XI.
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[Rule B11]
11 F.4th 26
What is "th" should not be in superscript?
[Rule 6.2 (b)]
What the 3d refers to in F.3d
What is the third series of the Federal Reporter?
Numbers _______ through _______ should generally be spelled out in text.
What is zero through ninety-nine?
[Rules B6; 6.2]
A more active way to say: "My books were borrowed by someone."
What is:
"Someone borrowed my books."
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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.
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[Rule B10.2]
VARA is the relevant statue for our analysis.
What is statute is misspelled?
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?
[Rules B1.3; 1.5(a)(i)]
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(d)(ii)]
A more active way to say: "The hope chest was removed from the house by the burglar."
What is:
"The burglar removed the hope chest from the house."
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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).
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[Rule B10; T1.1]
Id.
What is the period in Id. should be underlined?
[Rule 4.1]
The proper order, abbreviations, and underlining 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]
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)]
A more active way to say: "A verdict was reached by the jury after three hours of deliberation."
What is:
"The jury reached a verdict after three hours of deliberation" OR "The jury reached a verdict after deliberating for three hours."
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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).
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[Rules B12.1, 12, 12.3.2 (no date required), T1.1, Page 230]
(quoting J’Aire Corp. v. Gregory, 598 P.2d 60, 61 (Cal. 1979)).
What is quoting should not be underlined?
[Rule 1.5]
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?
[Rules B10.1.3(iv); 10.4(b); T1]
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."]
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."
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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).
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[B10.1, T1; R10.4(b); T6]
(quoting J’Aire Corp. v. Gregory, 598 P.2d 60, 61 (Cal. 1979).
What is the last parenthesis is missing?
Find the original quotation embedded in the following excerpt, then write out:
(1) the original quotation and
(2) a citation to the original source.
“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).
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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]
A more active way to say: "The bank was not notified by either Lucinda or anyone else that Lucinda's debit card had been lost by her."
What is:
"Neither Lucinda nor anyone else notified the bank that Lucinda lost her debit card." OR
"No one notified the bank that Lucinda lost her debit card."
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