legal citation
On first reference, full case name should be used for citing both pending legal cases and decided legal opinions before the judiciary. The proper style is to put the leading plaintiff then the lowercase letter V followed by a period to represent versus followed by the leading defendant. The entire case name is placed within the <cite> tag. On second reference, if the case is popularly known by either the name of the plaintiff or the defendant, it may be referred to as such. It is also placed within the <cite> tag .
Note: EAPM has followed standard American wire journalism style, and styled <cite> in CSS to put quotation marks around works cited. This includes court decisions.
Examples of first reference:
<cite>Brown v. Board of Education</cite>, which would render as Brown v. Board of Education- Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company
- Ableman v. Booth
- Griswold v. Connecticut
Examples of second reference:
<cite>Rowley</cite>, which would render as Rowley — a commonly used shorthand for Board of Education v. Rowley- Miranda — a commonly used shorthand for Miranda v. Arizona
- Tinker — a commonly used shorthand for Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
- Dobbs — a commonly used shorthand for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
- Obergefell — a commonly used shorthand for Obergefell v. Hodges
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