What’s Wrong? Red Lights Notable Keeping Order ExCITEable 5 pt 5 pt Eleanor 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

What’s Wrong? – 5 points Aguilar v. Felton, 473 U.S. 402, 407 (1985).

What is the case name is not italicized? Rule 12.2(a)

What’s Wrong? – 10 points 18 U.S.C. § 1462(a) (2003).

What is the wrong date? The date should be either 2000 or Supp. 2003. ALWD 14.2 & Sidebar 14.1

What’s Wrong? – 15 points Smith, 745 at 23.

What is a missing reporter abbreviation? Rule 12.21(b)

What’s Wrong? – 20 points Michael J. Gerhardt, The Federal Impeachment Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis 19 (1996).

What is a missing publisher? ALWD Rule 22.1(i)

What’s Wrong – 25 points CNN, Russian Troops Spread Out Into Kosovo, <http://www.cnn.com/WORLD> (July 10, 1999). Note: At least 2 errors

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

Red Lights – 5 points Use when the cited authority contains dicta that supports the proposition.

What is see? Rule 44.3

Red Lights – 10 points If you use a signal, it may help the reader to include this as well.

What is an explanatory parenthetical? Rule 44.4

Red Lights – 15 points Punctuation after e.g.

What is none? Rules 44.3 & 44.6(a)

Red Lights – 20 points Three times when you do not use a signal.

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)

Red Lights – 25 points Use when the cited authority directly contradicts the stated proposition.

What is contra? Rule 44.3

Notable – 5 points Before

What is supra? ALWD 10.3(a)

Notable – 10 points You change F.Supp. to this.

What is F. Supp.? (Or what is add space?) ALWD Chart 12.1 or Rule 2.0

Notables – 15 points The original material you want to quote contains a mistake – a spelling error, for example.

What is Correct the mistake using brackets – [ ]. Retain the mistake and include [sic] after the mistake. ALWD Rule 48.6

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.

What is an incorrect use of hereinafter? ALWD Rule 11.4(d).

Notables – 25 points This lists the subsequent histories that should and should not be included in a citation.

What is ALWD Rule 12.8?

Keeping Order – 5 points Punctuation between citations

What is a semicolon and one space? Rule 45.2.

Keeping Order – 10 points Where the short-form citation falls within a string citation.

What is the same place the full citation for the authority would fall? Rule 45.3(c)

Keeping Order – 15 points For federal circuit courts, it would come right before before D.C. Cir.

What is the 11th Circuit? Rule 45.3(f)

Keeping Order – 20 points First-listed type of primary authority.

What are constitutions? Rule 45.4(a)

Keeping Order – 25 points If no author’s name is available, you do this to the word “the.”

What is “disregard it.” Rule 45.3(b)

ExCITEable – 5 points Where you typically get the date for a state statute.

What is the copyright page?

ExCITEable – 10 points Proper abbreviation for Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal.

What is (Fla. 2d Dist. App.)?

ExCITEable – 15 points In the middle of a block quote, the author adds a footnote. How do you relate the addition to the reader?

What is put the footnote number in brackets? Government-owned facility,[15]

ExCITEable – 20 points When you place an ellipsis at the beginning of a quotation.

What is never? ALWD 49.3(b)(2)

ExCITEable – 25 points Exact spacing and punctuation at the end of an incomplete sentence that has been quoted.

What is space, then ellipsis, then period? Constitution . . . .