Legal Citation Jeopardy

ADMINISTRATIVE AND EXECUTIVE REGULATIONS

100

This is what Fed. Reg. stands for.

What is Federal Register?

200

Administrative and executive regulations are eventually published in this code, which is also the preferred citation code.

What is the Code of Federal Regulations ("C.F.R.")?

300

This is the short citation form for the following: FTC Credit Practices Rule, 25 C.F.R. § 238.5 (1999).

What is "25 C.F.R. § 238.5."?

400

The following administrative regulation is improperly cited, and should instead be this. 7 C. F. R. §§ 298(1982).

What is "7 C.F.R. § 298 (1982)."?

500

This is the proper Bluebook citation for Executive Order Number 13,730 and published in volume 81 of the Federal Register at page 33,331 and was published on May 26, 2016.

What is "Exec. Order No. 13,730, 81 Fed. Reg. 33,331 (May 26, 2016)."?

STATUTES AND CONSTITUTIONS

100

This is the Bluebook abbreviation for the United States Code.

What is U.S.C.?

200

This is the proper Bluebook citation for Title thirty-two, section nineteen of the United States Code?

What is "32 U.S.C. § 19 (xxxx)."?

300

This is the Bluebook citation form for sections 104 to 107 of Title 10 of the United States Code, but found in the United States Code Service and published in 1992.

What is "10 U.S.C.S. §§ 104-07 (LexisNexis 1992)."?

400

This is the Bluebook citation for section 3 of the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.

What is "U.S. Const. amend. XIII, § 3."?

500

This is the Bluebook citation for Chapter 211, section 14 of Michigan Compiled Laws published in 1983.

What is "Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.14 (1983)."?

CASES

100

This is the Bluebook citation for the Supreme Court case Hearst Corporation versus Pepsico, Incorporated on page 123, volume 199 of the official reporter, and was decided in 2001.

What is "Hearst Corp. v. Pepsico, Inc. (underlined or italicized), 199 U.S. 123 (2001)."

200

This is the Bluebook citation for the case Jim Brown versus Jack Black heard before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and published in the Federal Reporter Third Series in volume 32 and can be found at page 99. The case was decided in 2013.

What is "Brown v. Black (italicized or underlined), 32 F.3d 99 (9th Cir. 2013)."?

300

True or False: Supreme Court cases require parallel citations.

What is False?

400

This is the Bluebook citation for the case Gary Busey versus Bret Michaels, and reported in 245th volume of the Federal Supplement (Second Series) on page 267, decided in the court for the Western District of Michigan in 2011. The cited material is from pages 268 to 269.

What is "Busey v. Michaels (underlined or italicized), 245 F. Supp. 2d 267, 268-69 (W.D. Mich. 2011)."?

500

This is the Bluebook citation for the Ohio Supreme Court case United States of America versus Andrew Daugherty, located in the 432nd volume of the North Eastern Reporter on page 178 and decided in 1978. Assume no parallel citations are required.

What is "United States v. Daugherty (underlined or italicized), 432 N.E. 178 (Ohio 1978)."?

SECONDARY SOURCES

100

This is the Bluebook citation for the entry business judgment rule found on page 712 of the ninth edition of Black's Law Dictionary, published in 2009.

What is "Business Judgment Rule (italicized), Black’s Law Dictionary (underlined) 712 (9th ed. 2009)."?

200

This is the Bluebook citation for the book published in 2003 titled Justice for Women and written by Kevin M. Bacon.

What is "Kevin M. Bacon, Justice for Women (underlined or italicized) (2003)."?

300

This is the Bluebook citation for the third edition of the book titled "Federal Practice and Procedure" written by Orlando James Bloom and Kiera G. Knightly, which is the third edition of their book written in 2011.

What is "Orlando James Bloom & Kiera G. Knightly, Federal Practice and Procedure (underlined or italicized) (3d ed. 2011)."?

400

This is the Bluebook citation for an article that appeared in the University of California, Los Angeles Law Review in 2010 in volume 23 on page 12, which was written by James B. McAvoy and was titled "Mediation as a Preferred Method of Dispute Resolution."

What is "James B. McAvoy, Mediation as a Preferred Method of Dispute Resolution (underlined or italicized), 23 UCLA L. Rev. 12 (2010)."?

500

This is the proper Bluebook citation for section 101 of the Restatement Second of Contracts, which was published in 1981.

What is "Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 101 (A.L.I. 1981)."?

ABBR.

100

This is the Bluebook abbreviation for the official reporter that publishes U.S. Supreme Court cases.

What is "U.S."?

200

This is the Bluebook abbreviation for the Federal Supplement, Second Series.

What is "F. Supp. 2d"?

300

This is the Bluebook abbreviation for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit?

What is "Fed. Cir."?

400

This is the Bluebook table listing the abbreviations for common words.

What is Table 6?

500

This is the Bluebook abbreviation for the city of Baltimore.

What is "Balt."?