{"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>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>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. On February 25, 2021, it made its first appearance in a Supreme Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}