Re: Court case names.

>>I've said this before and I know it's
been pointed out by others before such as Tim Young,
but case names are not the same as the title of a
book. NAQT does not over-underline, I don't understand
why both circuit events and even official ACF events
still do so. The names of the parties often become
reversed on the way up the ladder. Plus, the parties
change. Further, it often makes a difference if you're
citing to a state or regional reporter. Bakke should be
good enough. Dartmouth should be good enough. Cohens
should be good enough. Miranda should be good enough,
etc. After having seen this pointed out several times
in the past 2 years, I think I'm going to start
being a pain in the rear and refusing to give more than
the information required for identification of a case
and then protest if it's ruled wrong. I don't
understand why this is so difficult a concept for packet
authors and editors to understand.>>

I agree
with the concept of only requiring the unusual party
rather than also asking for the prison warden, state
attorney general, or whomever was the respondent in
question. However, there are some askable cases where
neither party's name is unique to that case--what do you
do about Reno v. ACLU or New York Times v. Sullivan?
I'm really asking here, as I've spent some time
trying to place my underlining on these cases in the
past.

--M.W.

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