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- From: srm@world.std.com (Stevens R Miller)
- Subject: Re: Maroonbook
- Message-ID: <BzMy75.7IG@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec20.003819.24331@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec20.235929.26524@lunatix.uucp> <1992Dec21.151112.21272@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec21.210202.23683@eff.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:47:28 GMT
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- mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
-
- >After the first year, I abandoned Bluebook cite form almost
- >entirely--choosing instead to focus on whether readers could find the case
- >I was citing based on the information I provided.
-
- I agree and approve. "A Uniform System of Citation" is neither uniform,
- nor is it a system. But boy can it help you cite! With all its
- "accords, Cf.s, compares, but sees and e.g.s," the Bluebook has
- actually been the axis on which cases have been known to turn (cite
- if you need it). As a law review note mentioned, the editors of the
- Bluebook are the only law students in the country who can wake up in
- the morning, state, "today I shall change the nature of jurisprudence
- in America," and then actually proceed to do so before nightfall. What
- nonsense! If only it were truly a system, I'd love it. But I can never
- find the form of citation I need, without a brute force search; the
- index and contents are useless. What a joke on the rest of us, but who
- can argue with Columbia, Harvard, Penn and Yale?
- --
- Stevens R. Miller J.D.
-