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Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin
Oh, that's bizarre. My boyfriend uses this made up system of citation that I can't believe nobody has called him out for yet. If he is referring to a case, he'll write:
The court held in Roe that abortion should be legal.
but if he's citing to the case, he'll put:
As the Court held, the Constitution has "penumbras, formed by emanations." Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113 (1973).
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Heh. I see lawyers with some regularity who underline
and italicize:
"As the Court held, the Constitution has "penumbras, formed by emanations."
Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113 (1973)."
It drives me nuts. The whole thing is rather simple. Case names should always be italicized. Underlining is a typewriter convention to indicate text that would be italicized if possible. Italicizing
is possible with a word processor, hence underlining is not needed as a substitute.
Of course, then there are the people who, for emphasis, will bold, italicize and underline.
Because it's that important! LOL -- people who work with me know that I will never sign my name to a brief with
any bolded text in it.