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The traditional abbreviations for U.S. states and territories, widely used in mailing addresses prior to the introduction of two-letter U.S. postal abbreviations, are still commonly used for other purposes (such as legal citation), and are still recognized (though discouraged) by the Postal Service.
Primarily from the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. [1] State names usually signify only parts of each listed state, unless otherwise indicated. Based on the BLM manual's 1973 publication date, and the reference to Clarke's Spheroid of 1866 in section 2-82, coordinates appear to be in the NAD27 datum.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
This is a list of journals and their associated Bluebook abbreviation. The list is based on the entries explicitly listed in the 19th edition. Entries with a (18) are found in the 18th edition, but not the 19th. See also Category:Redirects from Bluebook abbreviations, as well as (21st edition).
The FIPS state alpha code for each U.S. states and the District of Columbia are identical to the postal abbreviations by the United States Postal Service. From September 3, 1987, the same was true of the alpha code for each of the outlying areas, with the exception of U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (UM) as the USPS routes mail for these islands ...
ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation (PDF). New York, New York: Aspen Publishers. pp. 431– 438. ISBN 978-0-7355-3640-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-06; Federal Judicial History Office (2009). "The U.S. District Courts and the Federal Judiciary". History of the Federal Judiciary.
Attorneys in those states must be able to switch seamlessly between citation styles depending upon whether their work product is intended for a federal or state court. California has allowed citations in Bluebook as well as the state's own style manual, [6] but many practitioners and courts continue recommending the California Style Manual. [7]
The case appears in volume 531 of the United States Reports; The United States Reports are abbreviated "U.S." The first page of the case is on page 98; The court is obvious because only the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States are published in the United States Reports; The case was decided in the year 2000; Thus, the appropriate ...