Thanks for this information.
Related to the public domain citation portion of Rule 10.3.1, does anyone
know which journals are actually following that rule by providing the
official public domain citation for cases from courts that have adopted a
form of public domain citation?
Maybe academic librarians could ask the editors of those journals published
at your law school?
I have called the Harvard Law Review Assn. once, but did not receive
helpful information. I also inquired as to why they made a change to Rule
12.8.5 now requiring that, for restatements, you give the year the
restatement was published, rather than the year it was adopted (as was
required by previous editions) The students involved with a new edition
have usually graduated by the time the new edition is actually published.
They do not seem to maintain any meaningful record of the "history" behind
the change.
Thanks in advance for any assistance in this regard.
Rick Ducey
At 08:08 AM 9/2/98 -0700, Franklin Weston wrote:
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>The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citations [The Harvard Bluebook] gets a
>new edition every three years. In between there are "printings" with
>changes. The next edition [17th] should be 1999.
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>The newest copy [16th edition, Sixth Printing 1998] of the Bluebook has
>arrived. These are some of the "noteworthy changes" included this latest
>printing:
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>Rule 1.2 Use of Introductory Signals [see, see also, Cf., etc] - has been
>modified, and the number has been reduced.
>
>Rule 3.3 Pages, Footnotes, Endnotes, and Graphical Materials - been
>expanded to include citation formats for endnotes and graphical materials.
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>Rule 10.3.1 Parallel Citations - has been modified to require use of an
>official public domain citation format when available.
>
>Rule 10.4 Court and Jurisdiction - The abbreviation for citing the
>decisions of bankruptcy appllate panels has been modified.
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>Rule 10.5 Date or Year - Now requires an exact date for all unreported
>cases and for all cases cited to a looseleaf service, a slip opinion, an
>electronic database, or a newspaper.
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>Rule 10.7 Prior and Subsequent History - No longer requires that denials
>of cert. or denials of similar discretionary appeals be indicated unless
>the decision is less than two years old or the denial is particularly
>relevant.
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>Rule 12.5 Secondary Sources - Updated to provide a special citation format
>for citing a code contained in an electronic database.
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>Rule 12.8.5 Model Codes, etc. - Expanded to include sentencing guidelines.
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>Rule 13 Legislative Materials - Modified to eliminate the identification
>of the session number when the session can otherwise be inferred from the
>remainder of the citation.
>
>Rule 13.4 Reports, Documents, and Committee Prints - The format for
>citing numbered reports and documents has been modified.
>
>Rule 15.1 Author, Editor, and Translator - Modified to require the full
>name as it appears on the publication being cited.
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>Rule 16.1 Same as Rule 15.1, but for periodicals.
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>Rule 17.3.3 Internet Sources - Guidance for citing materials from the
>Internet.
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>Rule 19 Foreign Materials - Requires that citations conform closely to
>local citation practice of the jurisdictions whose material in being
>cited.
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>Table T.2 - Revised and expanded and should be used in conjunction with
>Rule 19 in determining citation format.
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>Rule 20.8.4 WTO and GATT - New citation format for these organizations.
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>Tables T.1 and T.2 - have been updated and expanded.
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>Table 14 - has been eliminated; Tables 15 to 17 have been renumbered as
>Tables 14 to 16.
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>Good luck!!
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>Frank Weston
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