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Interpreting Legal Citations


  • Regular (Non-legal) Citation
    J. Env. Eng. -- 109:1 -- (Feb. 1986) -- p.12 source -- volume : number -- date -- page
  • Legal Sources
  • U.S. Code Service Citation (USCS and USC use the same numbering)     15 -- USCS -- 1392 volume -- source -- section/part
  • Code of Federal Regulations
    49 -- CFR -- 571 volume -- source -- section/part
  • Federal Register
    57 -- FR -- 41731
    volume -- source -- page
  • Case Law Citation
    Brown v. State of Alaska, 396 -- US -- 921, 90 -- S.Ct. -- 252 case name , vol. -- source -- page, parallel citation

The parallel citation simply references another source for the same case.

 

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