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Search form. Child Welfare Guide What Now? Court of Appeals. General Links. I would recommend that if you are not sure about capitalizing or if the Bluebook is not clear, at least be consistent. Probably you are better off erring on the side of capitalizing, and once you do, remember to capitalize throughout your memo or brief. Bluebook B It looks like both document titles in your question are the actual titles, so if they are part of the pending action, you should capitalize them.
I agree with this. And in my first example, there would certainly be nothing wrong with capitalizing Motion to Dismiss. I was wondering whether the name of the action in a count should be capitalized. Great question!
The Bluebook does not provide a specific answer here. The general rule on capitalizing titles in Bluebook Rule 8 a indicates that you would capitalize the title.
In my experience, capitalizing the title of an action is the general custom as well. Are you sure about this? Lee — I agree. Thanks for your good question. My preference is to add the definite article. Rule 8. In those examples, as well as others in Rule 8, the definite article continues to be used. My preference for using the definite article is based more on the grammar rule that you should use a definite article when using a specific noun. Before responding to your question, I looked at a sample of federal and state opinions.
In some cases, the author of the opinion used both forms Petitioner and the Petitioner, for instance. In those opinions, it seemed the author may have added or omitted the definite article based on how the reference sounded in the sentence. I think the best answer here is to say use your best judgment. The custom in your area of practice may be to omit the definite article.
In that case, it may be more comfortable for you and the reader of your briefs to continue to omit the definite article. Or, maybe you want to create the sense that your writing is more formal, in which case adding the definite article would help to create that sense of formality. It is true that it is common to see those terms capitalized and used without articles in many examples of legal writing, and the Bluebook example does seem to endorse that approach.
My co-author Laurel Oates and I have seen the article included and deleted in the writing of many attorneys and judges. Nevertheless, the general rules concerning articles in English are clear about when they should be used with nouns in situations like these, and we believe that is why so many readers find it jarring when they see plaintiff or defendant used without an article.
The comparable situations may help to illustrate the rule.
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