Check the docket number's year
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
The first element of a Louisiana docket number is the year the matter was filed, so it cannot come after the year of the decision the parenthetical dates.1
- 1R. 10.3.3 Public Domain Format; T1.3 States and the District of Columbia.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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