Use the full section span
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A span of sections keeps every digit, because a section number identifies a provision rather than a position in a volume: “§§ 1924-1999”, not “§§ 1924-99”.1
- Wrong
- §§ 1924-99
- Right
- §§ 1924-1999
- 1R. 3.3(b) Multiple sections and subsections.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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