In most U.S. jurisdictions, including the federal courts, there are no directives that can reasonably be construed as requiring the use
of The Bluebook's case name abbreviations.
Moreover, in several instances (Alabama, California, Idaho) where a court rule refers to Bluebook style, it also authorizes use of one or more alternative citation guides or speaks
of The Bluebook as providing guidance (South Carolina).
Those who click rather than page their way into the content
of The Bluebook at www.legalbluebook.com are told that by doing so they agree not to display its trademarks without prior written approval or «create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, incorporate into another website, or in any other way exploit the information... [it contains], in whole or in part.»
On the other hand, if the four must come to an agreement among themselves when confronted with a Bluebook rights or licensing issue, the representation that «The law reviews are evaluating potential arrangements that would expand the availability
of The Bluebook conventions....»
So long as a competing work (the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation or Introduction to Basic Legal Citation, for that matter) avoids employing the specific means used by The Bluebook to explain how to cite (e.g., its words, phrases, selected examples) that work can instruct readers on how to produce citations identical to those generated by careful use
of The Bluebook.
The second part, printed on white paper, is the heart
of the Bluebook system of citation: the rules of citation and style.
For this reason, the Bluepages contain references to related rules and tables found in other parts
of The Bluebook.
A description
of The Bluebook's structure of Rules and Tables additional to the one below is also available at section 3.1 of the Help page.
The layout
of The Bluebook has been updated to make the information easier to access.
Like the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation, first published in 2000, it endeavors to instruct those who would write legal briefs or memoranda on how to cite U.S. legal materials in complete conformity with the system of citation codified in the most recent edition
of The Bluebook while avoiding infringement of that work's copyright.
The Coordinating Editor
of The Bluebook is Mary Miles Prince, Associate Director, Vanderbilt University Law School Library, with special editorial assistance on the citations of foreign jurisdictions from the Directorate of Legal Research of the Law Library of Congress.
This introductory material is common to both the online and printed formats
of The Bluebook.
This edition
of The Bluebook retains the same basic approach to legal citation established by its predecessors.
The ridiculous pseudo-scientific detail
of the Bluebook, the law review citation manual, is emblematic for him of problems with American law.
In a December 2016 article for Green Bag, Judge Posner stated that among the reforms he would implement at federal appellate courts, «the first thing to do is burn all copies
of the Bluebook, in its latest edition 560 pages of rubbish».
In his review of the 19th edition (2010)
of the Bluebook — «The Bluebook Blues», Yale Law Journal 120 (2011): 850 - 861 — Judge Richard Posner of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, had the following to say:
Law firms, court systems and other large organizations can purchase bulk licenses to the mobile version
of The Bluebook.
As a former law student and proud owner of the 18th edition
of the Bluebook, I would surmise that the McGill Law Journal's revenues will not be affected greatly by co-publication of the Guide online.
The mobile version
of The Bluebook uses an existing app, rulebook, as its platform.
Section 7.2 («United States») tells us tersely: «See the latest edition
of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation.»
We see a noteworthy update this week in the back - and - forth between public domain advocate Carl Malamud and representatives
of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation ®.
He would be happy to burn all copies
of the Bluebook.
Bestlaw adds a toolbar to Westlaw and Lexis that enables handy features such as one - click copying
of Bluebook citations.
The prestige of the authors
of the Bluebook plays a role as well.
If the use
of the Bluebook is required by Courts and is so much a standard that everyone has to use it, how can anyone own it?
In the mid-1990s (if memory serves), the 16th edition
of The Bluebook first came out with a rule that every citation prefaced with the word See must be followed by an explanatory parenthetical — something like «(holding that...)» or «(stating that...).»
The site's design resembles
that of the Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation, and its three authors are attorneys who are also writers and marketing experts.
[W] e have embarked on a joint project with Public Resource to create and publish a public domain version
of The Bluebook — a project we refer to as Baby Blue.
«Judge Posner's Hatred
of the Bluebook Goes to Eleven Main When Schools» Zero - Tolerance Policies Make Zero Sense»
(This is the same app I've written about before that provides the mobile version
of The Bluebook.)
His hatred
of the Bluebook «goes to eleven.»
«Copy with cite» isn't supposed to mean «copy with a rough approximation
of the Bluebook cite» even if we can all agree that the Bluebook is basically a repository of hidebound rules.
Rulebook is the official app for the mobile version
of The Bluebook.
Baby Blue he said is also based in part on a 1958 edition
of the Bluebook that has fallen into the public domain.
«Mediocre Data Dooms Google Maps - Real Estate Search Main Judge Posner's Hatred
of the Bluebook Goes to Eleven»
Harvard let the copyright lapse on an older edition
of the Bluebook, so we may see a public domain bluebook soon.
The only possible place this effect makes sense is during Nathan's explanation
of the Bluebook phone's capabilities.
Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) seems to have won a weeklong trip to visit the estate
of Bluebook CEO Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), a sprawling territory of natural splendor that magnificently hides Nathan's research facility.
It is a grueling three - day process that is held the day after your 1L finals have ended and consists
of bluebooking, grammar editing, and crafting a written argument concerning a set topic, designated by the competition rules.
Not exact matches
Or you can negotiate your own prices if you'd prefer, but we recommend using online tools like SingleCare or Healthcare
Bluebook as a point
of reference.
The Qu «ran is a
bluebook for developing terrorists, and Islam is one
of the biggest threats to world peace today.
He was the founder and president
of Soyatech, a consulting and publishing company
of the annual Soya & Oilseed
Bluebook.
When young computer coder Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) wins a competition to visit the secluded home
of solitary tech entrepreneur Nathan (Oscar Isaac), head
of the search engine company
Bluebook, it seems like a dream come true for the star - struck employee.
Domhnall Gleeson stars as Caleb, an employee
of Google analog
Bluebook, who starts the film by winning a contest to spend a week at the CEO's stunning but remote estate.
We find Caleb (Domhnall, Gleeson), a relatively low - ranking programmer at
Bluebook, the world's biggest internet search engine, as he wins an in - company competition for the prize
of a lifetime, the opportunity to fly to the remote Alaskan estate
of founder Nathan (Oscar Isaac) and spend a week with the reclusive genius (who wrote the code behind his golden goose when he was only 13).
It all centers around a young programmer named Caleb — one
of the top coders at the company
Bluebook — who's selected to take part in a confidential experiment he knows nothing about.
Domhnall Gleeson is Caleb, the geeky coder working for a software giant called
Bluebook (like Google, but bigger and more important); imagine Caleb's excitement and fear when he wins an in - house competition to spend a week alone with the firm's reclusive, scarily Kurtzian founder, Nathan (bullishly played by Oscar Isaac), in his gigantic fortress
of solitude on a private island — it looks like the one where they built Jurassic Park.
Customer service is phenomenal, and the prices
of the vehicles all listed at Kelly
Bluebook value.
A seller may illegally turn back an odometer to give the appearance
of lower mileage and increase the final sale price or
bluebook value
of a vehicle.
Without a doubt, her childhood prepared her in large measure for the harrowing challenges being thrown at her now (think Lisbeth Salander, minus the dragon tattoo); she will have to call on every last resource at her disposal in hopes
of neutralizing Operation
Bluebook before it neutralizes her.