On 4/3/95, Law Library of Louisiana [Carol Billings] wrote:
>On March 31 Michael A. Trittipo . . . state[d]:
>"No state in the United States has
>mandated the use of any particular
>public domain citation system.
>* * *
>Mr. Trittipo is dead wrong! Louisiana's
>public domain citation format _is_ mandatory.
(BLUSH) Ms. Billings is right that after typing 30 previous paragraphs on 17
previous issues, I tired and thus omitted a word in one of my own sentences.
It should have been: "No state has mandated the _exclusive_ use of any
public domain citation system."
Thus, Louisiana's rule requires use of its PD citation form for opinions
issued after 12/31/93, but does not make that form exclusive even for such
decisions. It permits parallel cites.
For decisions before 1/1/94, the situation is reversed: Louisiana lets
attorneys use a PD citation, but does not require them to, while it _does_
require citing Peltier, Southern Reporter, or other reports (depending on
the year). In short, my sentence was inaccurate without the word
"exclusive," and Ms. Billing's quoted "is mandatory" sentence is inaccurate
without adding the words "for opinions issued after December 31, 1993."
Ms. Billings further writes:
>By the way, the name of our association is
>The American Association of Law _Libraries_.
Cheerfully agreed -- but one needn't tell me. _I_ never called it
otherwise. The malapropism "American Association of Law _Librarians_" [sic]
was what _Mr. Love_ typed -- a fact I clearly indicated with >> and ".
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Michael A. Trittipo
Schatz, Paquin, Lockgridge, Grindal & Holstein, P.L.L.P.
(of whom West Publishing is a client)
splgh@primenet.com
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