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Originally Posted by MysticCat
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.
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In one of the cases Mr. GP is doing right now, the state has
traffic stop and
custodial interrogation bolded every time they quote. I wonder if they
copied and
pasted from Westlaw.
