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Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Below is a basic list of very common abbreviations. Because publishers adopt different practices regarding how abbreviations are printed, one may find abbreviations with or without periods for each letter.
When the 1,000th volume is reached (the threshold in earlier years was lower), the volume number is reset to 1 and a "2d" is appended after the reporter's abbreviation. Some case reporters are in their third series, and a few are approaching their fourth. Some very old Supreme Court cases have odd-looking citations, such as Marbury v.
List of legal abbreviations; List of legal abbreviations (canon law) on Wiktionary: Appendix: English legal terms; Appendix: Glossary of legal terms; See also.
Volumes of the United States Reports. The United States Reports (ISSN 0891-6845) are the official record (law reports) of the Supreme Court of the United States.They include rulings, orders, case tables (list of every case decided), in alphabetical order both by the name of the petitioner (the losing party in lower courts) and by the name of the respondent (the prevailing party below), and ...
case-sequence: The clerk's serial number for the case within the section and year. case-state: Two-letter abbreviation for state. Use dc or DC for District of Columbia; case-district: 1- or 2-letter abbreviation for which Federal district the court is in, optional if the state has only one district. Use "sd" for Southern District, "cd" for ...
The abbreviation used to refer to court decisions. Established The date the district court was established as a court or the date it was subdivided from a larger district. Judges The number of judgeships authorized for the district. Meeting places The number of locations at which the court hears cases.
The rapper, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, is in court in Fulton County, Georgia, fighting gang and racketeering charges in connection with what prosecutors say is a violent street gang he ...
Delaware's Supreme Court has promulgated rules of citation for unreported cases markedly different from its standards, and custom in that state as to the citation format of the Delaware Uniform Citation code [4] also differs from it. [5] In other states, the local rules differ from The Bluebook in that they use their own style guides. Attorneys ...