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Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A Westlaw, Lexis or Bloomberg Law document is cited in its source’s own form plus the number the service assigns it, whatever route the reader took to reach it.1
- 1R. 18.4 Electronic Databases; R. 18.3 Commercial Electronic Databases.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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