Add the decision date beside the court
Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A case whose only source is a newspaper takes the month, day and year of decision in its court parenthetical; the paper’s own cover date dates the report, not the ruling.1
- 1R. 10.5(b) Decisions published in other sources. Tables: R. 16.6 Newspapers; R. 10.5(c) Pending cases and cases dismissed without opinion.
- 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
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