Replace the semicolon with a period
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A change of signal family — support, comparison, contradiction, background — opens a new citation sentence, rather than continuing the old one after a semicolon.1
- 1R. 1.3 Order of Signals. Tables: B1.2 Introductory Signals.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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- Add an explanatory parenthetical
- Add an explanatory parenthetical
- Add the comma that closes the clause
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- Move the footnote call number
- Move the signals into order
- Replace the period with a semicolon
- Replace the semicolon with a period
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