[blindLaw] Accessing Case Text Without Citations etc.

[lmendez716 at gmail.com]

Agreed.

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Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Accessing Case Text Without Citations etc.

Dissenter here, as always.  Citations can give you really useful and
immediate info, such as how old the case is, and whether someone is playing
fast and loose with majorities versus concurrences, etc.

On 5/19/21, tim at timeldermusic.com <tim at timeldermusic.com> wrote:
> Syed,
>
> Note that legal writing guru, Bryan Garner, and many of his footnote 
> followers agree with you.  But then we blind attorneys are subject to 
> the accessible footnoting formats.  You'll get used to inline 
> citations soon enough.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura Wolk <laura.wolk at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 2:51 PM
> To: Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Accessing Case Text Without Citations etc.
>
> Nope.  And that's how your casebooks and all filings will be too.
>
> On 5/18/21, Syed Rizvi via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am currently taking a law school prep course. The cases we are 
>> reading are pulled from West Law. There are numerous citation 
>> numbers, footers and stuff that is not the text of the case. I 
>> understand all these citations etc. are important, but for my 
>> purpose, I would like to access just the text of the case, as trying 
>> to listen for the text amongst all the numbers is really driving me 
>> up the wall. Is there a solution to this?
>>
>> Thank you so much!
>>
>> Respectfully,
>>      Syed Rizvi
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