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Citation rules/Administrative materials/14.4 State Materials

Add the year of the decision

Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts22nd edition only

A state administrative adjudication with no official reporter closes on a parenthetical that names the state, the agency and the year of the decision; leaving the year out leaves the reader unable to tell which decision is meant.1

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  1. 1R. 14.4(c) Administrative adjudications and arbitrations.
  2. 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
PreviousAdd the database's identifying codesNextAdd a parenthetical naming the database

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  1. Abbreviate the agency periodical's name
  2. Abbreviate the agency's name
  3. Abbreviate the state
  4. Add a parenthetical naming the database
  5. Add the C.F.R. edition year
  6. Add the commenter's name
  7. Add the database's identifying codes
  8. Add the date of publication
  9. Add the year of the decision

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More in Administrative materials

  1. Abbreviate the agency periodical's name
  2. Abbreviate the agency's name
  3. Abbreviate the state
  4. Add a parenthetical naming the database
  5. Add the C.F.R. edition year
  6. Add the commenter's name
  7. Add the database's identifying codes
  8. Add the date of publication
  9. Add the year of the decision

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