2022年6月27日 · AGTLC is a footnote-based reference system but you can use the name of the case in-line but would need to reference the other details in a footnote. Something like: We now consider the decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization (‘ Dobbs ’). 23

2023年8月16日 · The Case name assigned by the court upon the initial filing of the unlimited civil complaint is Spongebob Squarepants vs. Patrick Star et. al. and is the case name shown when accessing the case online, when viewing all submitted court filings up until the change and is seen used in all discovery requests and responses.

2015年6月4日 · Case citations are a sort of shorthand developed by lawyers and judges over the past few centuries. The goal is generally to identify the name of the case, where to locate it, when it was decided, and what court decided it. Although there are a few different styles for formal citations to cases, you don't need to learn much to cover the basics ...

2024年6月2日 · Defendant's Full Name. The conventional shorthand for that would be Jurisdiction v. Defendant's Last Name. But a news report could reasonably use People v Defendant's Last Name as a non-conventional shorthand.

2023年1月23日 · @JosephDoggie this myth is persistent but a myth nonetheless: "Cummings' publishers and others have often echoed the unconventional orthography in his poetry by writing his name in lower case. Cummings himself used both the lowercase and capitalized versions, though he most often signed his name with capitals.

2020年5月12日 · Another reason is that case sensitive database entries are more likely to produce false negative results in a search for a name, while is a much more serious problem in the circumstances in which it is usually used, than a false positive result, from the perspective of the government establishing the database.

2025年1月22日 · This kind of ambiguity could arise, for example, when the name of the party in a contract is stated in an ambiguous way. For example, I had a recent case that described the party obligated on a promissory note as: [Entity Name], i.e. [individual name of the owner of the entity] This description is ambiguous and contradictory on its face.

2023年11月7日 · @ohwilleke not only that but even when both litigants are not likely/repeat litigants, I’ve often heard/seen the cases referred to simply by the name of the first party of the citation (typically the claimant), especially in contexts where the case has a landmark significance, is well known, frequently-cited, or is otherwise likely to be clear from just the abbreviated mention.

2016年12月24日 · In your example, Twombly was the original plaintiff, and Bell was the defendant in a class-action. This initial action would have been referred to as Twombly v. Bell. The case was dismissed by the trial court. Twombly appealed to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. This action would have been still been called Twombly v.

2023年1月11日 · The term "suit" or "lawsuit" is normally reserved for civil cases and is not used to refer to criminal cases brought in the name of "The People". Often a criminal case brought in the name of "The People" is called a "Prosecution". Motions. The term "Motion" is used the same way in criminal cases as it is in civil cases.