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# Citing and Accessing U.S. Law

Occasional observations concerning the citation of and access to U.S. legal texts

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## Posts

- [Where U.S. Judges Find the Law](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=1246)
- [Open and Timely Access to Final, Official, Citable U.S. Caselaw: A Progress Report](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=1169)
- [Update on the Initiative Noted in the Prior Post](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=1166)
- [The Supreme Court's New Reporter of Decisions Confronts the Court's Huge Backlog of Unpublished Decisions](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=1158)
- [Statutes - Citation norms that reinforce copyright claims](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=39)
- [Ideas on how to improve The Bluebook? Online survey](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=51)
- [Nowhere versus generic citations](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=53)
- [Proposed OASIS Technical Committee](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=55)
- [Parallel print citations in today's digital environment](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=62)
- [Origins of the Bluebook?](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=70)
- [Citing unpublished decisions](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=72)
- [What does the start of a new year mean in legal citation?](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=76)
- [Case citation and the proposed “Edicts of Government” amendment to the Copyright Act](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=81)
- [OASIS Legal Citation Markup Technical Committee](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=85)
- [Citation as DNA](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=90)
- [Costs of the (Increasingly) Lengthy Path to U.S. Report Pagination](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=93)
- [Annotated Bibliography on Neutral Citation and Standardized Markup](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=104)
- [Oklahoma Makes It Official (But What Does That Signify?)](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=107)
- [Should It Be “Commissioner”,  “Comm’r”, or “Commr.”?](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=113)
- [Where Should Citations Be Placed?  An Old Debate, A Radically Changed Environment](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=138)
- [If the Judge Will Be Reading My Brief on a Screen, Where Should I Place My Citations?](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=149)
- [Judges Revising Opinions after Their Release](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=157)
- [The ALWD Guide Capitulates](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=185)
- [Pennsylvania Supreme Court Drops Parallel Citation Requirement](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=200)
- [Using “The Bluebook®©!#%” without a license](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=206)
- [Neutral Citation - An Important Anniversary](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=221)
- [Citation Alone Doesn't Make the Argument](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=229)
- [New Mexico's Mandate That Medium-Neutral Citations Be Used for Cases Originally Issued without Them](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=233)
- [2014 edition of Basic Legal Citation released](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=247)
- [Citations Generated by the Major Online Systems](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=252)
- [How Google Scholar Undercuts Jurisdictions Going Digital While It Could as Easily Support them](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=279)
- [The Complex Relationship between Citations and Citators](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=300)
- [Judges Are Not Like Pigs](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=374)
- [Oklahoma's Court Network Threatened by Legislative Proposal](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=378)
- [How to Cite Treatises](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=384)
- [The Bluebook's Inconsistency about When to Identify an Electronic Source](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=404)
- [Bluebook (20th ed.) and Restatements, Model Codes, etc.](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=461)
- [2015 version of Introduction to Basic Legal Citation released](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=466)
- [Make that "Advert." not "Adver."](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=472)
- [(internal quotation marks omitted)](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=481)
- [Citation Software](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=517)
- [How Should One Think about (and Cite) the U.S. Code?](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=566)
- [Lessons the Federal Courts Might Learn from Westlaw’s Prolonged Data Processing Error](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=598)
- [From Blue to Indigo to …](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=617)
- [California (Finally) Ends Automatic Depublication](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=636)
- [Better Never than So Very Late?](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=652)
- [One Journal's Defection from The Bluebook - Its Reasons and 6-Page Replacement](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=733)
- [One U.S. District Court's Lonely Gesture Toward Open Access and Medium-Neutral Citation](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=797)
- [An Exclusive Right to Publish the California Style Manual?](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=878)
- [Citing the Code of Federal Regulations](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=970)
- [The First Supreme Court Opinion Rendered in 2018 Is Now Out - How Many Years Before It Will Be Published in Final, Official Form?](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=1016)
- [How many words is a citation?](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=1048)
- [2017 - The Year to Free California’s Case Law “for Publication by Any Person”](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=765)
- [The Bluebook's Treatment of Court Rules](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=1053)
- [The Bluebook’s 2020 Weight Loss Program – Remove All Foreign Citations](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=1060)
- [Bluebook Weight Loss Program – Part Two: The Merger of Tables T6 and T13.2](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=1074)
- ["Copy with Reference"](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=1103)
- ["(cleaned up)" Makes it to the Top](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=1137)

## Pages

- [Cleaned Up Quoted Quotes and The Bluebook](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?page_id=1222)
- [Scope and purpose](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?page_id=34)
- [Sample Page](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?page_id=2)

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=1)
- [Bluebook](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=8)
- [Statutes](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=10)
- [Neutral citations](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=11)
- [Cases](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=12)
- [Unpublished](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=17)
- [Regulations](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=19)
- [Journal articles](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=22)
- [Treatises](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=23)
- [Authentication](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=26)
- [Footnotes](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=29)
- [ALWD](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=31)
- [Copyright](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=32)
- [Constitutions](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=36)
- [Quotations](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=38)
- [Software](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=40)
- [Official](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=41)
- [Trademark](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=42)
- [Federal](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=43)
- [Abbreviations](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?cat=48)

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- [Mississippi](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?tag=mississippi)
- [cases](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?tag=cases-2)
- [neutral citations](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?tag=neutral-citations-2)
- [citation principles](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?tag=citation-principles)
- [OASIS](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?tag=oasis)
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- [foreign sources](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?tag=foreign-sources)
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- [Lexis](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?tag=lexis)
- [Bloomberg Law](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?tag=bloomberg-law)
- [Fastcase](https://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?tag=fastcase)