BLUEBOOK EXERCISE

Please cut and paste the text as provided in the Bluebooking Exercise into a separate Word document and correct the footnotes using proper Bluebook format. Additionally, below each footnote, please describe the changes you made.These citations should be treated as though they are consecutively cited in a law review article for short citation purposes.

For Example:

FN 1 / United States v. Moussaoui, 382 F.3d 453 at 454 (4th Cir. 2004).
Your Corrected FN1 / United States v. Moussaoui, 382 F.3d 453, 454 (4th Cir. 2004).
List of Changes You Made /
  • Removed improper italicization per BB Rule 10.
  • Corrected pin citation form per BB Rule 3.2(a).

You should not use the Track Changes function in Word. DO NOT check the authority of footnotes for accuracy or support, or check prior or subsequent history. This is a formatting exercise and should be based solely on your knowledge and the Bluebook rules. Remember that the Honor Code governs the Write-On Competition, and using LexisNexis or Westlaw to look up any of the cases or articles in the Bluebooking Exercise or the use of any software or website (excluding the digital copy of the Bluebook) to correct the citation is against the rules of the competition. If you need additional information in order to properly correct a footnote, simply make a note explaining the information that you need. Please include this exercise in your electronic submission and in the packet with your Comment, grade release form, and contact sheet.

  1. Barondess County v. Almousa, Inc., 247 F.Supp. 2d 25, 27 (E.D. Cal. 1994).
  1. Howard, Andrew, If you don’t think I’m crazy, you’re wrong: A comment on the correct interpretation of rule 56(b), 14 George Mason University Law Review 87, 96-98 (2010).
  1. Edward H. Palmore I, Was a Little Too Tall Could’ve Used a Few Pounds: The Impact of Bob Seger’s Night Moves on Modern Legal Theory, (Notes how the connection between feeling the lightning and waiting on the thunder is equally applicable when a defendant challenges a court’s jurisdiction rather than the case on the merits) (Second Edition 2014).
  1. See generally, Howard, Supra n. 2 at 95 (arguing the standard of review used by the Court in Swift v. West, 337 U.S. 412 (2012), is not clear and by using the correct standard the Court would have found the plaintiff’s video was better than Beyonce’s).
  1. Justin Timberlake, J. C. Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, and Lance Bass, No Strings Attached: The Function of Privity in Property Law, 87 Yale Law Journal 485, 490 (2001) (“and in that case, the plaintiff’s ability to pull that defendant into court will go bye, bye, bye.”).
  1. See Morrison v. Archbold, 5 F.2d 332, 335 (D. Ariz. 1984); Section Five, Fourteenth Amendment, United States Constitution; 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1979); Michie’s Annotated Statutes of New Mexico S 43-3-274 (1961); Cedar, Inc. v. Zoldan, 54 A.3d 43, 47 (Md. 2014); Davisi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, 376 U.S. 998, 1011 (2001); Mokhiber v. Clough, 32 P.3d 554, 559 (Ariz. 1997); Pastow v. Secor, 245 P.2d 222, 224 (Ariz. App. Ct. 1974).
  1. Blake Shelton v. Adam Levine, 323 California Reporter 3d 355, 357-359 (California Appellate Dep’t. Superior Court 2014).
  1. See Id. at 360 (quoting Zach White v. U.S., 254 U.S. 335, 345 (Justice Antonin Scalia dissent) (2015) (“[T]he Constitutional right to consume lobby pizza is on a first-come, first-served basis.”)).
  1. Shelton at 366 (explaining that “As a matter of law, country music from the late twentieth century is superior to the music listened to by kids today.”)
  1. Treaty on the Contingency of Donald Trump as President, United States-Mexico art. III, April 15, 2016, volume 59 United States Treaties 224.
  1. Monty Python and Charlie Kelly, Global Warming and the Air/Speed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow Birds on Bird Law Blog January 12, 2016, 1:59 AM,
  1. When taking into account the disproportional growth and subsequent deflation of Barry Bonds’ head size, it can only be assumed that steroids were involved.But see Barry Bonds, I Didn’t Do It!, 8 Va. Sports & Ent. L.J. 807, 834 (2010); See Hank Aaron, Real Home Run King: The Day the Legal System Knocked it Out of the Park, 84 Ocean and Coastal Law Journal 554, 578 (2010). In Bonds v. Rodriguez, 354 F.2d 661, 669 (Third Circuit 2008), the Third Circuit denied Bonds’ motion for summary judgment because truth is a defense to any defamation claim.
  1. Senate Report No. 85, 89th Congress, part 3, at 34 (1965) as reprinted in 1995 U.S. Code Congressional and Administrative News 845, 880-881.
  1. United Nations Secretary-General, Putin and Trump-BFF’s or WTF?: Report of the Secretary-General, paragraph 17, U.N. Document. A/53/956-F/4495 March 17, 2016.