WRITING MANUAL - Supreme Court - State of Ohio

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1.6. Foreign Cases... ..........................................................................................37 SECTION TWO: CONSTITUTIONS ..............................................................................39 2.1. Ohio Constitution....... ................................................................................39 2.2. United States Constitution .........................................................................40 SECTION THREE: STATUTES AND ORDINANCES .................................................41 3.1. Ohio Statutes... ...........................................................................................41 A. Abbreviations .................................................................................41 B. Section numbers, chapters, and titles .............................................41 C. Legislative acts...............................................................................42 3.2. Ohio Municipal Ordinances .......................................................................43 3.3. Federal Statutes ..........................................................................................43 3.4. Out-of-State Statutes. .................................................................................44 3.5. Miscellaneous Foreign Statutes .................................................................45 SECTION FOUR: RULES AND REGULATIONS ........................................................47 4.1. Ohio Rules .................................................................................................47 4.2. Ohio Local Rules of Court... ......................................................................48 4.3. Federal Rules .............................................................................................49 4.4. Ohio Regulations .......................................................................................49 4.5. Federal Regulations ...................................................................................50 SECTION FIVE: SECONDARY SOURCES ..................................................................51 5.1. Restatements ..............................................................................................51 5.2. Texts, Treatises, and Dictionaries ..............................................................51 5.3. Law Reviews..... .........................................................................................53 The Supreme Court of Ohio ii Writing Manual
A. Elements of citation .......................................................................53 B. Title and source ..............................................................................53 5.4. Annotations ................................................................................................55 5.5. Encyclopedias ............................................................................................55 5.6. Ohio Attorney General Opinions ...............................................................56 5.7. Nonlegal Magazines and Newspapers .......................................................56 5.8. Internet .......................................................................................................57 SECTION SIX: MISCELLANEOUS CITATION RULES .............................................59 6.1. Short-Form Citations .................................................................................59 A. Generally ........................................................................................59 B. Information within a short-form citation .......................................59 C. Short-form citations for cases that have no WebCite ....................59 D. Short-form citations for cases with a WebCite ..............................60 E. Short-form citations for sources other than cases ..........................61 6.2. Signal Words ..............................................................................................63 A. Definition .......................................................................................63 B. Style ...............................................................................................63 C. Common signals.............................................................................63 D. Use of signal words ........................................................................64 6.3. Citations Omitted..... ..................................................................................69 A. Use.. ...............................................................................................69 B. Attribution of a quotation within a quotation ................................70 6.4. Explanatory Case History ..........................................................................70 The Supreme Court of Ohio iii Writing Manual
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HOW TO USE SEE ALSO Because M.B.’
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HOW TO USE BUT SEE While courts hav
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OUTLINE OF A JUDICIAL OPINION (CONT
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Example 1—Civil Case, Single Issu
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II. The Incident and Its Aftermath
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{ 20} Appellants cite similar cases
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D Dates in text, 91 Dictionaries, 5
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