1 What’s Wrong? Red Lights Notable Keeping Order ExCITEable 5 pt 5 ptEleanor M. Savko What’s Wrong? Red Lights Notable 12/18/2017 Keeping Order ExCITEable 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt
2 What’s Wrong? – 5 points Aguilar v. Felton, 473 U.S. 402, 407 (1985).
3 What is the case name is not italicized?Rule 12.2(a)
4 What’s Wrong? – 10 points 18 U.S.C. § 1462(a) (2003).
5 What is the wrong date? The date should be either 2000 or Supp. 2003.ALWD 14.2 & Sidebar 14.1
6 What’s Wrong? – 15 points Smith, 745 at 23.
7 What is a missing reporter abbreviation?Rule 12.21(b)
8 What’s Wrong? – 20 points Michael J. Gerhardt, The Federal Impeachment Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis 19 (1996).
9 What is a missing publisher?ALWD Rule 22.1(i)
10 What’s Wrong – 25 points CNN, Russian Troops Spread Out Into Kosovo,
11 What are: 1. Two capitalized prepositions (out and into) 2. An incorrect angle brackets 3. An underlined URL? (depending on context) ALWD Rules 3 and 40
12 Red Lights – 5 points Use when the cited authority contains dicta that supports the proposition.
13 What is see? Rule 44.3
14 Red Lights – 10 points If you use a signal, it may help the reader to include this as well.
15 What is an explanatory parenthetical?Rule 44.4
16 Red Lights – 15 points Punctuation after e.g.
17 What is none? Rules 44.3 & 44.6(a)
18 Red Lights – 20 points Three times when you do not use a signal.
19 1. Cited authority directly supports the stated proposition What are: 1. Cited authority directly supports the stated proposition 2. Cited authority identifies the source of a quotation 3. Cited authority merely identifies the authority referred to in the text? Rule 44.2(a)
20 Red Lights – 25 points Use when the cited authority directly contradicts the stated proposition.
21 What is contra? Rule 44.3
22 Notable – 5 points Before
23 What is supra? ALWD 10.3(a)
24 Notable – 10 points You change F.Supp. to this.
25 What is F. Supp.? (Or what is add space?)ALWD Chart 12.1 or Rule 2.0
26 Notables – 15 points The original material you want toquote contains a mistake – a spelling error, for example.
27 What is Correct the mistake using brackets – [ ]. Retain the mistake and include [sic] after the mistake. ALWD Rule 48.6
28 Notables – 20 points What is wrong? 5Lani Guinier, Lessons and Challenges of Becoming Gentlemen, 24 N.Y.U. L. Rev. & Soc. Change 1, 11 (1998) [hereinafter Lessons]. 65Guinier, Lessons, supra n. 5, at 8.
29 What is an incorrect use of hereinafter?ALWD Rule 11.4(d).
30 Notables – 25 points This lists the subsequent histories that should and should not be included in a citation.
31 What is ALWD Rule 12.8?
32 Keeping Order – 5 points Punctuation between citations
33 What is a semicolon and one space?Rule 45.2.
34 Keeping Order – 10 points Where the short-form citation falls within a string citation.
35 What is the same place the full citation for the authority would fall?Rule 45.3(c)
36 Keeping Order – 15 points For federal circuit courts, it would come right before before D.C. Cir.
37 What is the 11th Circuit? Rule 45.3(f)
38 Keeping Order – 20 points First-listed type of primary authority.
39 What are constitutions?Rule 45.4(a)
40 Keeping Order – 25 points If no author’s name is available, you do this to the word “the.”
41 What is “disregard it.” Rule 45.3(b)
42 ExCITEable – 5 points Where you typically get the date for a state statute.
43 What is the copyright page?
44 ExCITEable – 10 points Proper abbreviation for Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal.
45 What is (Fla. 2d Dist. App.)?
46 ExCITEable – 15 points In the middle of a block quote, the author adds a footnote. How do you relate the addition to the reader?
47 What is put the footnote number in brackets?Government-owned facility,[15]
48 ExCITEable – 20 points When you place an ellipsis at the beginning of a quotation.
49 What is never? ALWD 49.3(b)(2)
50 ExCITEable – 25 points Exact spacing and punctuation at the end of an incomplete sentence that has been quoted.
51 What is space, then ellipsis, then period? Constitution . . . .