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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, < (July 10, 1999).
Note: At least 2 errors

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 to
quote 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 . . . .