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Citing your student note in an opinion
A little gauche or a big no-no?
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Re: Citing your student note in an opinion
Is it the only relevant piece of scholarship on an issue of first impression that your judge is deciding? Would none of the more established sources that your note cites be an adequate citation? My guess is that there’s about a 99.5% chance anyone thinking about citing to their student note is doing it for vanity rather than for one of those two valid reasons.Anonymous User wrote:A little gauche or a big no-no?
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Re: Citing your student note in an opinion
Why would you cite to a note at all?
(Okay, yes, if it’s an issue on which there’s no established law at all, citing to a law review article could be appropriate. But IME clerking, this was extremely extremely rare. So first you’d have to be in this universe even to consider citing your own note.)
(Okay, yes, if it’s an issue on which there’s no established law at all, citing to a law review article could be appropriate. But IME clerking, this was extremely extremely rare. So first you’d have to be in this universe even to consider citing your own note.)
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Re: Citing your student note in an opinion
Are you serious?
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Re: Citing your student note in an opinion
This advice is on point.Anonymous User wrote:Is it the only relevant piece of scholarship on an issue of first impression that your judge is deciding? Would none of the more established sources that your note cites be an adequate citation? My guess is that there’s about a 99.5% chance anyone thinking about citing to their student note is doing it for vanity rather than for one of those two valid reasons.Anonymous User wrote:A little gauche or a big no-no?
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Re: Citing your student note in an opinion
A pretty outrageous move to be honest.
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