Remove the leading “The”

Warning²Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

The article is dropped from the first word of a statute's name where that name heads a citation; it stays in running prose.¹

1. 1R. 12.3.1(a) Name and original section number; R. 12.4(a) Name.
2. 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.