Materials about how to put your legal research into proper legal citation format. Matierials about the importance of the citation format and citation reform to enhance usability and accessibility of the law itself.

"We have laws about removing architectural barriers to accessibility.

But we don't yet seem to have any plans in Minnesota for removing artificial barriers to accessibility of much of Minnesota law - appellate decisions from the Minnesota Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.

How those decisions are identified and published has ripple effects across the entire legal community as well as for citizen access to the law itself."

Ed. note: The article is at pp. 6-8 of this newsletter.

The service describes itself as:"The legal citation generator for lazy law students."

"The aim will be to draw attention to important differences in practice among jurisdictions and distinctive approaches - from the commendable to the lamentable."

"Today, all 50 Canadian courts follow the neutral citation standard."

"The Illinois Supreme Court announced Tuesday a new way of officially citing its cases and those of the Illinois Appellate Court. This new method will eliminate the need to contractually publish and purchase the official opinions in bound volumes. It will save Illinois taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

Illinois will join about a dozen other states who already use the new method of case citation. The Supreme Court promulgated the changes in amendments filed Tuesday to Supreme Court Rule 6 and Rule 23."

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... The new method of citation goes into effect July 1, 2011. ...

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In Illinois, Supreme Court and Appellate Court opinions have been available on the judiciary's web site since 1996, but the requirement that official citation be made to printed reporters has prevented the direct citation of those opinions. ...

These changes direct the Illinois Supreme Court and the Illinois Appellate Court to assign at the time of filing a public-domain case designator number, as well as internal paragraph numbers to all opinions and Rule 23 orders filed after July 1, 2011."

1993 - present. Revised annually.

36 pages.

"With information technology such as electronic bulletin boards, CD-ROMs and the Internet so readily available and widely used, there is growing interest among courts in a citation form that is both medium neutral and vendor neutral. Such a neutral citation form is known as a universal citation form. The purpose of this memorandum is to highlight the issues a supreme court faces in considering a universal citation form and official electronic opinions and to offer some suggestions and options. Whether a Supreme Court should adopt such a system is outside the scope of this report." 11 pages.

Universal citation is a format designed to supplement or replace older, print-oriented, proprietary legal citation formats.

Cite as: 103 Law Lib. J. (2011-22). 27 pages.

"Originally written as part of a team project on the future of online legal publishing for an interdisciplinary Harvard University class on Business and the Internet."

"Our aim is to provide the organizational infrastructure needed to facilitate the adoption and use of a uniform set of media and vendor neutral citations that can be used for all American court decisions."

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