Bluebooking Worksheet Key
Directions:
1) Provide the following citations in the proper Bluebook form ON THIS SHEET. Make appropriate corrections using the bluebook format for Law Review or Law Journal footnotes.
2) PLEASE CITE THE RULE NUMBER FROM YOUR BLUEBOOK.
Note: Assume the information, i.e. title, year, author, etc., provided here is correct. There is no need to look these sources up; some of them may be fictional. Focus on proper form, capitalization, punctuation, and proper citation format for law review or law journal footnotes.
Example: Revised Statutes of Missouri, section 123, in 1990 main body and 1991 supplement
Answer: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 123 (1990 & Supp. 1991).
Rule 12.2.2
Exercises:
1. Linda Ann Williams versus State of Arkansas, Volume 241 of South Western Reporter Third, page 290, Court of Appeals of Arkansas, October 11, 2006.
Williams v. State, 241 S.W.3d 290 (Ark. Ct. App. 2006). (Rule 10.2.1)
2. Page 212 of the only edition of Erik Larson’s book, “The Devil in the White City,” published in 2004.
Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City 212 (2004). (Rule 15)
3. “Global Financial Crisis Upends the Plans of Many South Koreans to Study Abroad,” by Martin Fackler, New York Times, Saturday, January 10, 2009, page A5.
Martin Fackler, Global Financial Crisis Upends the Plans of Many South Koreans to Study Abroad, N.Y. Times, Jan. 10, 2009, at A5. (Rule 16.5)
4. Article 2, Section 4, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution.
U.S. Const. art. II, § 4, cl. 1.
5. Section 117(b)(2)(A) of the 2001 version of the Internal Revenue Code, available online at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/usc_sec_26_00000117----000-.html and also available in printed medium. (Hint: Internet citation rules are different for parallel citation of an Internet source and direct citation to Internet sources.)
I.R.C. § 117(b)(2)(A) (2001), available at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/usc_sec_26_00000117----000-.html. (Rule 12.8.1/Rule 18.2.2)
6. An article written by Ashley L. Taylor, Jr., Anthony F. Troy, and Katherine W. Tanner Smith appearing in 2008 in volume 40, issue 3 of The Urban Lawyer entitled “State Attorneys General: The Robust Use of Previously Ignored State Powers” and beginning on page 507.
Ashley L. Taylor, Jr. et al., State Attorneys General: The Robust Use of Previously Ignored State Powers, 40 Urb. Law. 507 (2008). (Rule 16.1)
7. A live interview conducted by the author with Ellen Suni, Dean of the UMKC Law School on February 21, 2008 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Interview with Ellen Suni, Dean, UMKC Law School, in Kansas City, Mo. (Feb. 21, 2008). (Rule 17.1.4)
8. A short citation in a footnote to the case Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 535 U.S. 302, 313 (2002), when the case has been cited earlier in the footnotes.
Tahoe-Sierra Pres. Council, Inc., 535 U.S. at 313. (Rule 10.9)
Tahoe-Sierra, 535 U.S. at 313. (Rule 10.9)
9. A short citation in a footnote to pages 318-319 of the same case in problem 8 above, when the case has been cited in the immediately preceding footnote and there are no other citations in that immediately preceding footnote.
Id. at 318-19. (Rule 10.9)
10. A citation to page 6 of the case Lisa Sparkman v. Columbia Mutual Insurance Co., which appears on Westlaw as number 5136332, and was case number SD 28891 decided in the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District on December 8, 2008.
Sparkman v. Columbia Mut. Ins. Co., No. SD 28891, 2008 WL 5136332, at *6 (Mo. Ct. App. Dec. 8, 2008). (Rule 18.1.1).