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WRITING MANUAL

A Guide to Citations, Style, and Judicial Opinion Writing

effective july 1, 2013 second edition

Published for the Supreme Court of Ohio

WRITING MANUAL A Guide to Citations, Style, and Judicial Opinion Writing

MAUREEN O'CONNOR

Chief Justice

SHARON L. KENNEDY PATRICK F. FISCHER R. PATRICK DeWINE MICHAEL P. DONNELLY MELODY J. STEWART JENNIFER BRUNNER

Justices

STEPHANIE E. HESS

Interim administrative Director

The Supreme Court of Ohio Style Manual Committee

HON. JUDITH ANN LANZINGER JUSTICE, THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

Chair

HON. TERRENCE O'DONNELL JUSTICE, THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

HON. JUDITH L. FRENCH JUSTICE, THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

STEVEN C. HOLLON ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR, THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

ARTHUR J. MARZIALE JR., Retired July 31, 2012 DIRECTOR OF LEGAL RESOURCES, THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

SANDRA H. GROSKO REPORTER OF DECISIONS, THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

RALPH W. PRESTON, Retired July 31, 2011 REPORTER OF DECISIONS, THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO

MARY BETH BEAZLEY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW AND DIRECTOR OF LEGAL WRITING,

MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

C. MICHAEL WALSH ADMINISTRATOR, NINTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

The committee wishes to gratefully acknowledge the invaluable contributions of editor Pam Wynsen of the Reporter's Office, as well as the excellent formatting assistance of John VanNorman, Policy and Research Counsel to the Administrative Director.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE...........................................................................................................................ix PART I. MANUAL OF CITATIONS

INTRODUCTION TO THE MANUAL OF CITATIONS .................................................3 SECTION ONE: CASES ....................................................................................................5

1.1. Ohio Court Cases .........................................................................................5 A. Importance of May 1, 2002.................................................................5 B. Ohio cases decided before May 1, 2002 .............................................5 C. Ohio cases decided on or after May 1, 2002.....................................13

1.2. Ohio Administrative Decisions..................................................................18 1.3. Abbreviations for Reporters of Ohio Cases ...............................................19 OHIO CITATIONS AT A GLANCE ................................................................................21 1.4. Federal Cases .............................................................................................23

A. United States Supreme Court cases ...............................................23 B. Federal circuit court cases..............................................................24 C. Federal district court cases.............................................................25 1.5. Out-of-State Court Cases ...........................................................................26 A. Print published ...............................................................................26 B. Non-print published .......................................................................28 C. Public-domain citation formats......................................................28 D. Abbreviations for out-of-state reporters.........................................29 E. Abbreviations for West's regional reporters and others ................35

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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

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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

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A. Style ...............................................................................................70 B. History affecting precedential value ..............................................71 6.5. Placement of Citation.................................................................................72 6.6. Emphasis Sic, Emphasis Added, Emphasis Deleted..................................73 A. General ...........................................................................................73 B. Emphasis sic...................................................................................73 C. Emphasis added .............................................................................74 D. Emphasis deleted ...........................................................................74 6.7. Spacing within Parentheses in Citations ....................................................75 A. Abbreviated words .........................................................................75 B. Unabbreviated words .....................................................................75 C. Ordinal numbers.............................................................................75 D. Names of months ...........................................................................76 6.8. Months of the Year ....................................................................................76 6.9. Abbreviations in the Style or Citation of a Case........................................76 6.10. Use of Id., Supra, and Infra .......................................................................83 A. Id ...................................................................................................83 B. Supra and infra ..............................................................................84

PART II. STYLE GUIDE INTRODUCTION TO THE STYLE GUIDE ...................................................................87 SECTION SEVEN: CAPITALIZATION.........................................................................89

7.1. Proper Nouns and Proper Adjectives. ........................................................89 7.2. Titles of Persons.........................................................................................89

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