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Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts22nd edition only
A Tribal code citation spells out the code’s name and the Nation’s, where an ordinary statute shortens both: “Muscogee (Creek) Nation Code of Laws § 3-202 (2015)”, not “Muscogee (Creek) Nat’n Code of Laws § 3-202 (2015)”.1
- Wrong
- Muscogee (Creek) Nat’n Code of Laws § 3-202 (2015)
- Right
- Muscogee (Creek) Nation Code of Laws § 3-202 (2015)
- 1B22.2 Tribal Nations Without an Established Citation Format. Tables: T1.5 Tribal Nations; T6 Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.