Legal Writing I

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Legal Writing I

• Citation

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ALWD Rule 12.0BB Rule 10.0

• Rule 12.8 (10.7) (Subsequent history)
• Krouse v. Smith, 524 P.2d 412, 415 (Cal. Ct. App.
  1975), revd in part on other grounds, 600 P.2d
  607 (Cal. 2000).
• Citing unreported cases
• Review short forms Rule 12.21(10.9)

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ALWD Rule 14.0 (Statutes)BB Rule 12.0

• Fast format pg. 107
• Georgia
• Ga. Code Ann. x (year).

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ALWD Rule 17.0 (Ct. Rules)BB Rule 14.2

• Fed. R. Civ. P. 11.

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ALWD Rule 22.0 (Books)BB Rule 15

• Author, Title Pinpoint reference (editor,
  translator, edition, publisher, date).
• Multiple authors include two, et al. three or
  more

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ALWD Rule 23.0 (Periodicals)BB Rule 16.0

• Scott W. Breedlove Victoria S. Salzmann, The
  Devil Made Me Do It The Irrelevance of
  Legislative Motivation Under the Establishment
  Clause, 53 Baylor L. Rev. 420, 421 (2001).
• Italics in the title
• Periodical abbreviations
• Breedlove, supra note 2.

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ALWD Rule 43.0 (Placement)BB Rule P.4

• Citation clauses
• Place after every sentence that is not your own
  independent thought

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ALWD Rule 44.0 (Signals)BB Rule 1.2-1.3

• Do not use if
• Cited authority directly supports material
• Direct quote
• Case name appears in the text
• Use before all citations (even short)
• Categories of signals (pg. 300)
• Capitalize the first signal
• Separate like signal with a semicolon, unlike
  signals with a period

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ALWD Rule 45.0 (Order of Authority)BB Rule 1.4

• Primary authority 1st
• (Constitutions, Statutes, Rules of evid/proc,
  Treaties, Cases)
• Highest to lowest Ct.
• App. Cts by ordinal
• Reverse chronological order within the same
  jurisdiction
• State cases alphabetically

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ALWD Rule 46.0 (Parentheticals)BB Rule 1.5

• Place after source to which it relates
• May include citations
• Only put a period inside the parenthetical if the
  entire thing is a quote
• Start with a gerund

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ALWD Rule 47.0 (Quotes)BB Rule 5.0

• USE SPARINGLY!!!
• 50 words or more block quote
• Periods and commas inside, semicolon, colon,
  question mark if part of original text
• Quote in parentheticals exactly the same way
• Quote within a quote

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ALWD Rule 48.0 (Alterations)BB Rule 5.2

• Use ellipses to show deletions of multiple words
• Use brackets to show deletions of characters

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ALWD Rule 49.0 (Omissions)BB Rule 5.3

• Use ellipses to designate missing words
• Separate ellipses by spaces
• NEVER use at the beginning of a quote
• Do not use at the end of the quote unless the
  entire sentence is a quote
• Four ellipses indicate the end of a sentence