Reference Question of the Week

This blog shares common questions and answers handled by an academic law librarian. The blog is intended to aid our students and to collaborate with the law librarian community. We do not answer questions for the general public. We will not respond to comments nor will we monitor the same. This blog is not affiliated with any vendor or sponsor.

Bluebook Blues

Message received via e-mail: I was hoping to get some help on a law review article that I'm helping a professor with. I am currently preparing some footnote citations according to Bluebook rules, and a few questions have come up. I hope that these questions make sense and can be...

Finding Civil Rights 78

Question: I am trying to use the print version of West’s Federal Practice Digest 4th to find cases under the topic Civil Rights key number 78, but the books go from the topic Children Out of Wedlock directly to Civil Rights Key Number 1001. Answer: There is no current Civil Rights key...

Early Virginia Cases

Question: I need to find Virginia cases from right after the adoption of the state constitution. Answer: The blue pages of the Bluebook provided information on the history of Virginia reports, including information that the court had been called the “Supreme Court of Appeals” and that...
 
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