Abbreviate the history phrase
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
The phrase introducing a case's prior or subsequent history comes from Table T8, which prints it already shortened: “aff’d”, “rev’g”, “cert. denied”, “reh’g denied”.1
- 1B10.1.6 Prior or Subsequent History. Tables: R. 10.7.1(a) Prior or subsequent history; T8 Explanatory Phrases.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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