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Bluebook Law Review: add court to case citations #7411

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Adds the court before the date of the decision in parenthesis. For example, "D. Mass" in:

Ward v. Reddy, 727 F. Supp. 1407, 1412 (D. Mass. 1990).

This format is shown in the "Cases" section on the Bluebook site (publicly accessible).

More specifically, the Bluebook states in B10.1.3 (subscription required):

B10.1.3 – Court and Year of Decision
Indicate parenthetically the deciding court followed by the year of decision (immediately following the page reference). When citing decisions of the United States Supreme Court, however, do not include the name of the deciding court. Table T1 lists the correct abbreviations for courts in U.S. jurisdictions.

(i) The United States Supreme Court: Cite United States Reports (U.S.) if the opinion appears therein; otherwise, cite to Supreme Court Reporter (S. Ct.):

Meritor Sav. Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57, 60 (1986).

Weyerhaeuser Co. v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Serv., 139 S. Ct. 361, 365 (2018).

(ii) Federal Courts of Appeals: Cite Federal Reporter (F., F.2d, F.3d) and indicate the name of the court parenthetically:

Env't Def. Fund v. EPA, 465 F.2d 528, 533 (D.C. Cir. 1972).

United States v. Jardine, 364 F.3d 1200, 1203 (10th Cir. 2004).

(iii) Federal District Courts: Cite Federal Supplement (F. Supp., F. Supp. 2d, F. Supp. 3d) and indicate the name of the court parenthetically:

W. St. Grp. LLC v. Epro, 563 F. Supp. 2d 84, 91 (D. Mass. 2008).

Harris v. Roderick, 933 F. Supp. 977, 985 (D. Idaho 1996).

This is similarly documented in The Indigo Book

Adds the court before the date of the decision. For example, "D. Mass" in: 

Ward v. Reddy, 727 F. Supp. 1407, 1412 (D. Mass. 1990).
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😃 Your submission passed all our automated tests.

Below are some sample citations generated based on your proposed changes:

bluebook-law-review.csl (modified style; unchanged output for sample items)
Beyond varieties of capitalism: Conflict, contradiction, and complementarities in the European economy, (Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes, & Mark Thatcher eds., 2007); CSL search by example, Citation Style Editor (2012), http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ (last visited Dec 15, 2012).
Isabela Mares, Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why, and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers?, in Varieties of capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage 184 (Peter A. Hall & David Soskice eds., 2001); Martin Fenner et al., A Data Citation Roadmap for Scholarly Data Repositories, 6 Sci. Data 28 (2019), http://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0031-8 (last visited Apr 27, 2019).

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I'm not a legal scholar; I helped a friend correct this locally and I wanted to send the fix upstream. So, I'll ping some recent editors to this file to make sure I'm not breaking something (apologies in advance!): @POBrien333 @trackleft @adam3smith

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