Citations to legal materials follow a standard format that makes it possible for the reader to find cited cases, statutes, regulations, or law review articles. Citations, however, serve additional purposes, including lending authority and credibility to the author's work. Here, Fitch outlines the basic principles of legal citation, including the structure of the Bluebook, and provides examples for some of the most frequently cited sources in legal writing.
...Our cases confirm that the “general tendency” applies wi...Contractors, supra, at 541, n. 46 (finding no proximate cause in the antitrust context where ...
There is no real case law on the subject that I can find. There are tons of cases that say if you charge the cost of the service, that's a fee," City Attorney Harry Stewart told commissioners. "If you charge more than the cost of the service, that's a tax, or a fine. And if it's a fine then you've got to have a quasi-judicial process set up to challenge the applicability of the fine. "The issue on the fire is we've got to clean up this ordinance," Mayor Jack Seiler said. "That's what we need to do." "I followed the Miami fire assessment case, and this is worse," [Thomas Tew] previously told the newspaper, "If there is not aggressive action by the elected officials, it will default to the courts and to enforcement people. It's ripe for a class-action evaluation and if that occurs, it s...
Created by the Public Justice Center in 2000, the Appellate Project set some ambitious goals: find appellate cases that can help shape public-interest law, co-partner with sister organizations and private firms on significant appeals, and file amicus curiae briefs to help courts take notice of cases that affect poor people and civil rights. Four years later, it's time to take stock - and one legal expert likes what he sees.
Law practice and legal education are facing fundamental changes. Many assume that these changes will force law schools to give up on theory and focus more on training students for the practice of law. However, this Essay shows that the future may be more uncertain and complex. The only thing that is certain is that law schools may face, for the first time, the need to provide the type of education the market demands rather than serving lawyers’ and law professors’ preferences. Legal educators must respond to these demands by serving not just the existing U.S. market for legal services but also a global market for legal information. This may call for training in some, but not all, of the theories and disciplines that have been developing in law schools.
University of Missouri law students will find it easier to prepare for trial cases thanks to a $100,000 gift from Kansas City lawyer Thomas E. Deacy Jr. The gift establishes the Thomas E. Deacy Jr. Trial Practice Endowment to support the MU trial practice program, the university said in a news release.
Poised to become a majority in Missouri and around the country, female law students find their numbers taking an unexpected, unexplained and, in some cases, sharp decline. The University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School is a striking example. From 2001 to 2003, the ratio of men to women was about 50- 50. Since then, however, female enrollment at the law school has dropped to about 42 percent, according to Debbie Brooks, assistant dean of admissions and multicultural affairs.
It is well known that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits covered employers from discriminating against an employee because of his or her sex and that sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination. This article focuses on the equal opportunity harasser (EOH.) It summarizes the basic law of sexual harassment. In particular, it focuses on the interpretive conundrum in which courts find themselves due to Congress' failure to adequately define the meaning of the "because of sex" requirement. This article also discusses what courts and commentators have said about the viability of the EOH defense to employer liability for sexual harassment. Although some courts have concluded that any harassment of both sexes, regardless of how quantitatively or qualitatively different it mi...
... VII, there is a discernible trend in recent cases toward rejecting, or at least figuring out a way t...
... in the District Court, which ordered the cases dismissed for lack of jurisdiction because Guantan...' apprehension and detention weigh against finding they have Suspension Clause rights, there are crit...
The right to counsel is one of the most established tenets of criminal law. But a recent U.S. Supreme Court case could lead more trial courts to find a right to counsel in civil cases where litigants face the potential loss of liberty or other rights, and procedural protections are lacking. The case, Turner v. Rogers, "sets a precedent allowing judges to be a little more proactive in deciding when pro se litigants" can get appointed counsel in civil cases, said Albert S. Dandridge, a partner in the Philadelphia office of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis who has written about the ruling's implications.
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