Add the title number
Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
Every title of the U.S. Code has its own § 1, so the title number stands in front of the name: “42 U.S.C. § 1983”, not “U.S.C. § 1983”.1
- Wrong
- U.S.C. § 1983
- Right
- 42 U.S.C. § 1983
- 1R. 12.3.1(b) Title, chapter, or volume; B12.1.1 Federal Statutes.
- 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
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