THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FORMAT OR MEDIUM NEUTRAL CITATIONS SIGNIFICANCE
This format permits a reference to cases without to be necessary a manufacturer´s source reference or a other type of source.
Information on cases should be entered using the Public domain format only when you are preparing documents for submission to local courts that require citations in this format.
This states require that citations be made to the public domain format : Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Guam, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Tennesse, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Court of the Sixth Circuit.
In 1994, The Wisconsin Bar and the Wisconsin Judicial Council together make a solicitation to the State's Supreme Court with the combined aim of improving access to state case law. This proposition was very polemic. Following two months of deliberation, the Wisconsin Supreme Court announced that decision of the matter would be deferred for two years.
Finally, in 1999, the court adopted what implementing rule termed "medium neutral citation", but until 1999 won't be used. So, Wisconsin was the second state that used this system. The first one was North Dakota.
Medium neutral citation is a method of citing used when the case has to be cited when it is in print or electronic format. The citation represents the court in which the case has been decided. It is made by the case name, the year and the Court abbreviation Judgement Number, for example Gold v Brown[1998] HCA 6, in which HCA stays for High Court of Australia.
The differences between medium neutral citations and traditional case citations include the fact that medium neutral citations give the abbreviation for the court and not a named law report; use court assigned case numbers rather than a volume and page number; use paragraph numbers rather than page numbers.
The important thing to remember is that the above example is not a citation for a published report. The court has made it available on its own web page or through a free resource such as AustLII.
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FORMAT OR MEDIUM NEUTRAL CITATIONS SIGNIFICANCE
This format permits a reference to cases without to be necessary a manufacturer´s source reference or a other type of source.
Information on cases should be entered using the Public domain format only when you are preparing documents for submission to local courts that require citations in this format.
This states require that citations be made to the public domain format : Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Guam, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Tennesse, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Court of the Sixth Circuit.
There is a web page that inform about the states that use a manufacturer´s source reference or a other type of source. This is the page: http://www.abanet.org/tech/ltrc/research/citation/uscourts.html
MEDIUM NEUTRAL CITATION
In 1994, The Wisconsin Bar and the Wisconsin Judicial Council together make a solicitation to the State's Supreme Court with the combined aim of improving access to state case law. This proposition was very polemic. Following two months of deliberation, the Wisconsin Supreme Court announced that decision of the matter would be deferred for two years.
Finally, in 1999, the court adopted what implementing rule termed "medium neutral citation", but until 1999 won't be used. So, Wisconsin was the second state that used this system. The first one was North Dakota.
Medium neutral citation is a method of citing used when the case has to be cited when it is in print or electronic format. The citation represents the court in which the case has been decided. It is made by the case name, the year and the Court abbreviation Judgement Number, for example Gold v Brown [1998] HCA 6, in which HCA stays for High Court of Australia.
The differences between medium neutral citations and traditional case citations include the fact that medium neutral citations give the abbreviation for the court and not a named law report; use court assigned case numbers rather than a volume and page number; use paragraph numbers rather than page numbers.
The important thing to remember is that the above example is not a citation for a published report. The court has made it available on its own web page or through a free resource such as AustLII.
A medium neutral citations table is included in Legal Abbreviations and Law Report Citations and is available in this page: http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/research/legal-abbreviations.html