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Bluebook 101Cases

Rule 10 Tables T.1, T.6, T.8

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Law Review vs. Memos

Examples will show styles for:Law review footnotes (LR)

andCourt documents and legal materials

(Prac)

Typeface Conventions• Practitioner style gives you the choice of

underscore or italics. This guide uses italics.

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Washington Courts• GR 14 requires all pleadings, motions, and

briefs to follow the Washington Reporter of Decisions Style Sheet.

• It adopts the Bluebook with some exceptions.

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Components • Name• Published source(s)• Court and jurisdiction• Date of decision• Subsequent history• Maybe parenthetical info or prior history

» R.10.1

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Case Names

• Who ever dreamed they could be so complicated?

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Italics, Underlining, etc.• In law review text and text sentences, italicize

case names, but in footnotes don’t.• In briefs and memos, always italicize or

underline (your choice, just be consistent!).• For Washington courts, always italicize or

underline case names.• Examples below italicize.

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Sentences vs. Citations

• In a citation, abbreviate more of the case name.

»R. 10.2

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Examples• Under Erie Railroad v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64

(1938), the court must apply Oregon law.

• Erie R.R. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938)(law review footnote)

• Erie R.R. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188 (1938)(Washington brief: always italicize name, always give

parallel citations)

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First & Only• Only give the first party on each side:

Andersen v. King County

not . . .

» R. 10.2.1(a)

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Heather Andersen and Leslie Christian; Peter Ilgenfritz and David Shull;

• JANET HELSON and BETTY LUNDQUIST; DAVID SERKIN-POOLE and MICHAEL SERKIN-POOLE; VEGAVAHINI SUBRAMANIAM and VAIJAYANTHIMALA NAGARAJAN; ELIZABETH REIS and BARBARA STEELE; and MICHELLE ESGUERRA; and BOO TORRES DE ESGUERRA, Respondents, v. KING COUNTY; RON SIMS, King County Executive; and DEAN LOGAN, King County Director of Records, Elections and Licensing Services Division, Appellants, STATE OF WASHINGTON, Appellant, SENATOR VAL STEVENS; REPRESENTATIVE GIGI TALCOTT; COALITION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND RENEWAL; NUWANDA ADAMS; TRACEY ARMSTRONG; GERALD BAKER; RICHARD BLAIR; ED COOK; RICK DANNER, SR.; BILL DEMPS; HARVEY DRAKE; GEORGE FROST; ELVIN GLADNEY; AARON HASKINS; RICK KINGHAM; SAMUEL K. LAW; JIMMIE W. LEE; DAN MAGALEI; DANA McCLENDON; TONY MORRIS; NATE MULLEN; PAUL OLVER; JOSEPH PHILLIPS; DAVID PIERSON; JOHN PENTON; KENNETH J. RANSFER, SR.; WILLIE C. SEALS, JR.; PAUL STOOT; WASHINGTON TALAGA; DANIEL VILLA; DAVID WALLACE; THOMAS L. WESTBROOK; DOUG WHEELER; EARNEST WILLIAMS; REGGIE WITHERSPOON; NATHANIEL WOLF; GRANT ZWEIGLE; and WASHINGTON EVANGELICALS FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT, Appellants/Intervenors. CELIA CASTLE and BRENDA BAUER; PAMELA COFFEY and VALERIE TIBBETT; GARY MURELL and MICHAEL GYDE; CHRISTINA GAMACHE and JUDITH FLEISSNER; KEVIN CHESTNUT and CURTIS CRAWFORD; JEFF KINGSBURY and ALAN FULLER; LAURI CONNER and LEJA WRIGHT; ALLAN HENDERSON and JOHN BERQUIST; MARGE BALLACK and DIANE LANTZ; TOM DUKE and PHUOC LAM; and KATHY and KARRIE CUNNINGHAM, Respondents, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, Appellant.

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Abbreviate• Common acronyms (e.g., YMCA)

&, Ass’n, Bros., Co., Corp., Inc., Ltd., and No. • Exception: if it begins party name

• Lots more in citations.» R. 10.2.1(c)

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Omit• Party’s job title–Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, not–Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

» R.10.2.1(e)

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Example• Whitman, Administrator of Environmental Protection

Agency, et al. v. American Trucking Associations, Inc., et al.

becomes in text:• Whitman v. American Trucking Ass’nsand in citations:• Whitman v. Am. Trucking Ass’ns

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State Name

• In the state’s own court – State v. Blakely, 111 Wash. App. 851, . .

• In another court– Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296

» R10.2.1(f)

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Geographical Terms

• PUD No. 1– Not PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County

• But include if part of full name of business or organization; include “City of”:– ACLU of Washington v. City of Seattle

» R. 10.2.1(k)

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Omit• First names–Miranda v. Arizona

• Unless that’s all there is–Michael M. v. Superior Court

• Or it’s a company name– Shelton v. Oscar Mayer Foods Corp.

» R. 10.2.1(g)

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In citations, abbreviate• Everything in T.6• States (T.10) unless the state is the whole

party name– Wash. Dep’t of Ecology

» R. 10.2.2

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Do NOT abbreviate • “United States” if that’s the party’s whole

name.–United States v. Microsoft Corp.

» R. 10.2.2

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Reporters

• Parallel– State v. Blakely, 111 Wash. App.

851, 47 P.3d 149 (2002)• Regional only–Hawkins v. McGee, 146 A. 641

(N.H. 1929)» R. 10.3

Washington Rules• Always give parallel citations• Use Washington abbreviations:– Wn.2d (not Wash. 2d)– Wn. App. (not Wash. App.)

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Jurisdiction, Court, Year• If you can’t tell by the reporter, include in

parentheses–Hawkins v. McGee, 146 A. 641 (N.H. 1929)

» R. 10.4

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No Superscripts!• Right: Lara v. Ryan, 455 F.3d 1080 (9th Cir.

2006)• Wrong: Lara v. Ryan, 455 F.3rd 1080 (9th Cir.

2006)

» R. 6.2(b)

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Parentheticals• (unpublished)• (en banc)• (Sanders, J., dissenting)• (citing Erie R.R. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938))• (upholding “Three Strikes” law)

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Prior & Subsequent History• , aff’d, • , vacated,• , cert. denied,• , modifying,

» R. 10.7 & T. 8

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Short Form• Whitman v. Am. Trucking Ass’ns, 531 U.S.

457 (2000)

• In American Trucking Ass’ns, the Court …» R. 10.9(a)(i)

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