Use the state's session-law title
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A state's session laws take the abbreviated title table T1.3 prints, which opens with the state: “1878 Minn. Laws”, not “1878 Laws of Minnesota”.1
- Wrong
- 1878 Laws of Minnesota
- Right
- 1878 Minn. Laws
- 1R. 12.4(b) Volume. Tables: T1.3 States and the District of Columbia; T10.1 U.S. States, Cities, and Territories.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
More in 12.4 Session Laws
- Add the page of the cited section
- Add the page the act begins on
- Add the public law or chapter number
- Add the volume number or the year
- Add the year the act passed
- Remove the duplicate year parenthetical
- Remove the year parenthetical
- Set the session laws’ name in roman type
- Use the state's session-law title