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| 2 main authorities for Legal Citation |
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| Bluebook and ALWD Citation Manual |
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| Components of a legal citation |
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| case name, reporter volume, reporter name, first page case is found on in that reporter, pinpoint page (if there is one), court issuing the opinion, year of decision, subsequent history of the case if any. |
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| Citing a persons name - ALWD |
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| only use the last name. If only initials are given, use all initials. If first name and initial for the last name is given use complete first name and initial for last name. if last name is hyphenated, use entire hyphenated name. When a foreign name uses several words for a last name, use all words that are included in their last name. |
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| citing a business name - ALWD |
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| include full name (even if a persons name is a part of the business name), abbreviate all words possible. look for more than 1 business designation and only use the first one given. |
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| Multiple parties listed - ALWD |
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| use only the first party listed on each side of the case, omit all other parties for citation purposes. |
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| In re, Ex Parte, Ex Rel refers to what kind of cases |
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| refers to an action that does not involve adversarial parties. |
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| term "The" in a case citation |
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| omit "the" when it is the first word of a party name on either side of the case. |
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| comma goes after the party name, period always follows the end of the citation. Case name is underlined or italicized. |
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| U.S. Court of Appeals decisions are cited where |
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| U.S. Supreme Court cases are cited where (unless local rules require otherwise) |
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| cite to the official reporter, United States Reports. Do not include a parallel citation to another reporter. |
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| U.S. District Court cases are cited to where |
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| reference to a specific page |
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| Short citation format for a case name |
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| use only the first party of the case (what comes before the versus) |
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| how to indicate reference to multiple sections of a statute |
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| 2 section symbols, no space in between |
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| Citation format for federal statutes |
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| title number, code abbreviation, section symbol, section number, publisher in parenthesis when it is a commercial publication, year of publication or supplement year in parenthesis. |
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| when citing to the last thing you cited to when there are no intervening citations. |
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| how to cite the Tennessee Rules of Evidence |
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| How to cite the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure |
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