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This table in the Bluebook is where abbreviations for words in case names can be found.
What is table T6?
Page number in Bluebook that begins the listing of abbreviations and citation conventions for California state court cases and statutes.
What is p. 246?
Typeface for the period after Id.
What is italicized or underscored?
Capitalize this word in a sentence when referring to the one you are briefing to.
What is Court?
Who tested positive for an illegal performance-enhancing amphetamine (a “PED”).
Who was the star running back for the team?
Include this before a citation when the cited authority directly states the proposition.
What is nothing - no signal?
Indicate omissions from the middle of quoted material with this punctuation.
What are ellipses?
(three dots with spaces before, between, and after)
What punctuation after the case name in a full citation is not italicized or underscored?
What is the comma?
The precedent case where to get the UC off his back, D gave her a note to give to another woman which stated. “If you have a pair of pants, let her have them."
What is People v. Barraza?
Relevancy (and reason why or why not) of this rule: Specifically, courts consider whether the police conduct would “make commission of the crime unusually attractive to a law-abiding person.”
What is not relevant?
Reason: You were instructed to analyze only principle 1 - Specifically, courts consider whether the police conduct would (1) “generate in a normally law-abiding person a motive for the crime [beyond] ordinary criminal intent” and (2) “make commission of the crime unusually attractive to a law-abiding person.”
Generally, every abbreviation of words in a case name should be followed by this type of punctuation.
What is period?
What is the abbreviation for the Judicial Council of California Criminal Jury Instructions?
What is CALCRIM?
The first letter of Id. is shown this way, when appearing after a signal like See?
What is not capitalized, i.e. id.?
Don't capitalize these two words when referring to the two-party roles in the precedent cases.
What are plaintiff and defendant?
Dr. Rapido told the entire team that he knew of a PED that these people had taken without being detected.
Who are some members of the 2023 Super Bowl-winning team?
This signal is used when the cited authority clearly supports a proposition but there is an inferential step between the proposition as stated and the cited authority.
What is See?
Commas and periods belong ___ the quotation marks.
What is inside?
The last three letters of the first word of an explanatory parenthetical.
What is ing?
The precedent case (involving a doctor excessively and inappropriately prescribing controlled substances) where the court reasoned there is no evidence that “the agents ‘badgered’ or ‘cajoled’ him into providing the drugs.”
What is Douglass v. Bd. Of Med. Quality Assurance?
Numbers _______ through _______ should generally be spelled out in text and footnotes.
What is zero through ninety-nine?
The court name abbreviation in a full case citation when referring to the California Court of Appeal as the court deciding a case reported in the California Reporter.
What is Ct. App.?
This citation form may not be used to refer to one authority in a preceding citation if the preceding citation cites more than one source.
What is Id.?
Form of the word "Court" when part of the party name in the following case: Lofgren v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County?
What is Ct.?
Bluebook T6
What did the star quarterback suffer from over the winter break?
What is mononucleosis?
Signals are _________, meaning they continue to the next authority until changed.
What "sticky"?
This number of words or more triggers the need for a block quote.
What is fifty?
The signal used to show when authorities are similar or different in important respects that can be used to disclose adverse authority.
What is Compare with?
The precedent case where the court reasoned that the UC did not entice the D since UC terminated the conversation with the 15-year-old after the “more than hookup” response.
What is People v. Fromuth?
The abbreviation for the word needing an abbreviation in the following citation: Legal Aid Soc'y of Dallas, Inc.?
What is Dall.?
Bluebook T10.1
The court name abbreviation in a full case citation when referring to the California Supreme Court as the court deciding a case reported in the Pacific Reporter.
What is Cal.?
The number of authorities in the prior citation required to be able to use Id. form for the next citation.
What is one?
Note, we cannot use Id. form after a string citation because the citation string contains more than one authority.
Bluebook table that covers format of court names in the court name and year parenthetical of a case name?
What is T7?
What did Rogers respond when Dr. Rapido questioned him on why he would jeopardize his career by using a PED or “risk a criminal record or jail.”
What is the response that “the Super Bowl team used it and didn’t get caught.”
This signal begins a separate citation sentence used following a supportive citation sentence to disclose authority that clearly supports a proposition contrary to the main proposition.
What is But see?
When a letter must be changed from upper to lower case, or vice versa, enclose it in ______.
What are brackets?
Word omitted when used in a case name: The Container Store Company, Incorporated.
What is Incorporated?
Precedent case where the agent admitted in court that she might have used her relationship with D to persuade him but denied making statements about needing the drug transaction to escape a threatening ex-boyfriend.
What is People v. Kelley?
What is the Bluebook abbreviation for Employees in a case name?
What is Emps.?
Bluebook T6 - first paragraph
The citation to California Civil Code subsection 46 when you have already cited the same statute in full in a prior citation sentence, but it is not the immediately preceding citation?
What is Civ. § 46. ?
Bluebook B12.2 and Rule 12.10(b)
What is missing from the header:
From:
To:
Re:
What is the date?
Bluebook rule for omitting geographical terms in case names.
What is Rule 10.2.1(f)?
What was the name that Dr. Rapido wrote on the back of his business card and handed over to Rogers?
What is Allistar McMenamin?
When providing a citation signal, the proper typeface is ____.
What is italicized or underscored?
The corrected version of this quote (if it was standing alone at the beginning of a new sentence).
“the best parts of law school are the friendships and easy classes”.
What is “[T]he best parts of law school are the friendships and easy classes.”?
When did Dr. Rapido tell the made-up story to the team?
What is during a regular forty-five-minute team wellness meeting?
Precedent case from which you can infer the rule that a defendant cannot show entrapment when officers engage in casual, short-term, non-intimate relationships with the defendant to gain the defendant’s confidence.
What is People v. Lee?