Skill Exercises

The Bluebook mandates that the case be mentioned in the unofficial regional reporter unless prohibited by the rules of the court, in contrast to the U.S. Supreme Court cases. The case of Morrison v. Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity's formal Bluebook citation is Morrison v. Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, 738 So. 2d 1105. (La. Ct. App. 1999). The case name, the reporter's volume, the reporter's abbreviation, the case's first page, if necessary, the state and court, and the year the case was determined are six examples of parenthetical information that should be included with cases from particular states. The West headnotes in Morrison can be used to find other relevant cases on a given issue. After finding the Morrison case, its headnotes are read to find ones that are most relevant to the issue. Then one should click on a topic or a key number link to find a list of all cases that are concerned with the same topic as well as key number. The search can be refined by selecting a varying jurisdiction at the page’s top.


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a. From the history tab, the subsequent action that was taken on this case is that all the defendants were found liable for the injuries incurred by Kendrick and faults were allocated by the jury.


b. In total, 87 cases have cited Morrison.


c. To get the citing references for Morrison case, one can click the citations to the case. All cases on West law as well as secondary sources that cite the case are displayed. One can limit the list of citing cases to references from a given state. A total of 7 other states have cited Morrison.


d. by looking at “negative treatment” tab, the cases cannot deter one from citing Morrison as a “good law” on the given issue because its validity is verifiable using KeyCite by looking at the history and looking at other cases that have cited it.


4. The correct Bluebook citation by typing 1986WL 11566 on the Westlaw GSB is Marshall v. Univ. of Del., 1986 W.L. 11566 (1986).


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a. One has to type one or more names of the parties or the title of the case in the GBS and then click on the negative treatment tab so as to see the direct history as well as the negative citing reference.


b. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 89 S. Ct. 733, 21 L. Ed. 2d 731 (1969).


6. The information provided after the blue and the white flag of United States v. Wheeler on Westlaw indicates that the case has some history and had been appealed.

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