Bluebook Test

** when to capitalize to court??? Pg 92 in bluebook

OK Case citations
- must give parallel cites to both Pacific reporter AND OSCN
- Duncan #1
- see green handout
slide 2- red- parenthetical if court of civ app
- green- cite to a federal case no parallel cite
- black- federal case no parallel cite
slide 3- ok statutes
1- annotated and found on westlaw
2- if found on OSCN
3- book so no annotation
slide 4- constitutional provisions (period after amend.)(correction)
slide 5- parts to tab
slide 6- present and past tenses
questions:
- dont get to use green sheet on test
- explanatory parenthetical:
3 choices:
1) (When X happens, Y will follow)
2) XYZ case (holding that Y is usually a result of X). present
participle
3) In ok tools of the trade are exempt from creditors (book)
(powertools)(stethoscope).
- coregrammar
- quotation
- syntax
- lists
- colons, semicolons
- test is 33 questions (MC)
- citation exercise 5 blog etc. none of that but need to know WESTLAW
parenthetical or OSCN as a parenthetical statute citation
- dont think theres a citation thats so new a case it would just be
westlaw
- hyphens vs. n-dash, v m-dash

- n-dash for pages, paragraphs and sections (opt, dash)

- m-dash rarely used (opt, dash, dash)
- hypen (dash)