{"id":1137,"date":"2021-03-19T14:43:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2021-12-11T18:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:11:17","slug":"cleaned-up-makes-it-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;(cleaned up)&#8221; Makes it to the Top"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2017 an increasing number of lawyers and judges have used the parenthetical &#8220;(cleaned up)&#8221;  to indicate that internal quotation marks, alterations, and citations have been omitted from a quotation. Recent editions of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/citation\/6-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Introduction to Basic Legal Citation<\/a><\/em> have recognized the practice. On February 25, 2021, it made its first appearance in a Supreme Court opinion, one written for the Court by Justice Thomas. None of the briefs filed in the case contained &#8220;cleaned up&#8221; quotations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The (legal citation) landmark case is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supremecourt\/text\/19-546#OPINION_3-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brownback v. King<\/a><\/em>.  For more, see Debra Weiss, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/justice-thomas-goes-rogue-on-the-bluebook-with-cleaned-up-citation-to-the-delight-of-appellate-lawyers?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justice Thomas goes rogue on the Bluebook with &#8216;cleaned up&#8217; citation\u2014to the delight of appellate lawyers<\/a>, ABA Journal (March 15, 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2017 an increasing number of lawyers and judges have used the parenthetical &#8220;(cleaned up)&#8221; to indicate that internal quotation marks, alterations, and citations have been omitted from a quotation. Recent editions of Introduction to Basic Legal Citation have recognized the practice. 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