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Wisconsin's Citation Rule: Unpublished Should Not Mean Uncitable, Jacob Lloyd Sep 2023

Wisconsin's Citation Rule: Unpublished Should Not Mean Uncitable, Jacob Lloyd

Marquette Law Review

Wisconsin’s citation rule stands tall, yet unsupported. It injures Wisconsin practitioners, their clients, and judges in all three levels of Wisconsin’s judicial branch. With little tolerance, Wisconsin Statutes section 809.23(3) precludes the citation of (1) unpublished opinions issued before July 1, 2009, and (2) unauthored, unpublished opinions thereafter. You may be surprised to learn that that means approximately half of Wisconsin Court of Appeals opinions issued each year are uncitable—so, too, are significantly more than half of the opinions it issued before July 1, 2009. Without change, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals will continue to miscategorize its opinions; Wisconsin’s case …


Citation, Slavery, And The Law As Choice: Thoughts On Bluebook Rule 10.7.1(D), David J.S. Ziff Mar 2023

Citation, Slavery, And The Law As Choice: Thoughts On Bluebook Rule 10.7.1(D), David J.S. Ziff

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Today, more than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, lawyers and judges continue to rely on antebellum decisions that tacitly or expressly approve of slavery. This reliance often occurs without any acknowledgement of the precedent’s immoral and legally dubious provenance. Modern use of these so-called “slave cases” was the subject of Professor Justin Simard’s 2020 article, Citing Slavery. In response to Professor Simard’s article, the latest edition of The Bluebook includes Rule 10.7.1(d), which requires authors to indicate parenthetically when a decision involves an enslaved person as a party or the property at issue. Unfortunately, Rule 10.7.1(d) …


Ssrn’S Impact On Citations To Legal Scholarship And How To Maximize It, Rob Wiley, Melanie Kanpp Mar 2023

Ssrn’S Impact On Citations To Legal Scholarship And How To Maximize It, Rob Wiley, Melanie Kanpp

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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The Capitalization Of "Tribal Nations" And The Decolonization Of Citation, Nomenclature, And Terminology In The United States, Angelique Eaglewoman Jan 2023

The Capitalization Of "Tribal Nations" And The Decolonization Of Citation, Nomenclature, And Terminology In The United States, Angelique Eaglewoman

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

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Persuasion Through Citation: Four Ways To Enhance Your Legal Arguments With Proper Legal Citation, Melissa N. Henke Jan 2023

Persuasion Through Citation: Four Ways To Enhance Your Legal Arguments With Proper Legal Citation, Melissa N. Henke

Law Faculty Popular Media

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