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Brief-bros: quoting opponents brief, hit em with dat (sic) for typo?
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 11:50 AM Author: fragrant national Is this too catty? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104251) |
Date: May 22nd, 2018 11:52 AM Author: fragrant national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104261) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 11:53 AM Author: Very tactful provocative becky insert a footnote explaining what was actually in their brief and how you developed your good faith estimation of what they actually meant to say. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104270) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:30 PM Author: razzle-dazzle ceo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105206) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 11:55 AM Author: big french chef church building It always looks catty to me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104280) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 11:57 AM Author: multi-colored blood rage milk Why are litigators such catty fags? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104298) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 12:09 PM Author: fragrant national yeah I don’t want to do it, seems like a cheap shot. I just don’t want them to think the typo is mine. That isn’t worth worrying about, right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104399) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 12:13 PM Author: multi-colored blood rage milk right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104462) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 12:14 PM Author: marvelous mauve stead when you quote, do it correctly, sans typo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104480) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 12:15 PM Author: big french chef church building (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104490) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:02 PM Author: fragrant national cool ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104976) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:07 PM Author: Learning Disabled Tantric Stag Film No. That's not quoting.
I think brackets are the best way to handle most errors.
If you want to change that mistaken "statue" to "statute," use brackets: "[statute]." |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:31 PM Author: brilliant ladyboy pit titcr
(the c stands for CLASSY!) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:34 PM Author: cerebral people who are hurt home Lol, that’s an even bigger dunk than sick. Doing this from now on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105258) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:56 PM Author: Learning Disabled Tantric Stag Film In this particular case, "statu[te]" might be better. It would require the reader to think less about the substitution. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105496) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 2:06 PM Author: Dead shrine This is the way to go. Changing it without saying anything is dumb. Quoting things incorrectly is only going to lead to trouble later on. But pointing out errors is catty as fuck. I'm sure a professional copy editor would find plenty in your cleanest work. If the other side is sloppy as shit, the judge will have no problem realizing that himself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105599) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 2:06 PM Author: Apoplectic stain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105602) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:31 PM Author: cerebral people who are hurt home No. Style on them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105229) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 12:00 PM Author: marvelous mauve stead it is catty. don't do it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104324) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 12:09 PM Author: fragrant national ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104400) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 12:10 PM Author: Cracking meetinghouse catty as fuck unless they have like 40 typos. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104410) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:04 PM Author: mischievous station yarmulke only if it is egregious, like they forgot to change the name of the last plaintiff when they cut and pasted the brief (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104989) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:05 PM Author: Splenetic hot wagecucks Only time I’ve ever done it is when they misspelled the judge’s name or the name of their own client (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104992) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:07 PM Author: fragrant national Haha wow holy shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105006) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:08 PM Author: Apoplectic stain no i hate the assholes who are assholes like that, and i've never been one unless told to do so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105014) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:11 PM Author: Learning Disabled Tantric Stag Film Context matters. The substantively inconsequential errors of an opponent acting in good faith usually don't warrant a [sic].
But there can be other situations, such as where similarly named entities are misidentified. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:16 PM Author: Apoplectic stain sure. but it's really only a question and an issue in the first kind of context, i'd think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105074) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:12 PM Author: mischievous station yarmulke Once with a pro se plaintiff I put a generic footnote saying something like "plaintiff's brief is quoted throughout without correcting for grammar and spelling." I thought doing [sic] [sic] was dumb, but I didn't want to clean up his atrocious writing for him.
If the [sic]'s are so bad they're distracting, that's probably the best way to approach. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:17 PM Author: Apoplectic stain agreed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105076) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:17 PM Author: Hairless liquid oxygen Tastefully change the quote to the correct spelling using brackets, you impotent little fuck.
Opposing counsel will frequently notice (and eventually a judge will, too), and they'll recognize that you're an elegant understated attorney of yore, not a limp-dicked coke-bottle-glasses-wearing queer who's carrying around anger about his son being the social outcast on his little league team and his wife cheating on him at her job, and vents by filling his shitty briefs with bald characterizations like "frivolous" and starting sentences with "Remarkably,".
EDIT: I want to punch faggots like you in your fleshy punchable faces. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:19 PM Author: fragrant national Settle down, I’m just asking questions here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105096) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:24 PM Author: Apoplectic stain he sounds kind of like the asshole he's denigrating. but i guess life can beat you down that way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105136) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:26 PM Author: mischievous station yarmulke The real risk is the clerks. Many of whom are 25 year old hypergunners fresh out of law review, where the Bluebook was LIFE. They might actually expect you to follow all these [sic] rules to the t, and look down on you for not doing so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105157) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:29 PM Author: Apoplectic stain were you a clerk too? my sense from having been one and worked alongside a number is that they're just looking mostly at the facts and the law at the end of the day, as informed by their understanding of how the judge is apt to want to deal with them. the errors and omissions from counsel that can matter are coming off as a true liar or moron, in which case sure, maybe your arguments will be examined a bit more closely (but everything substantive already was going to be looked at closely anyway). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105191) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:31 PM Author: mischievous station yarmulke I was a clerk but I IRL'd for a couple years first, so that bs was out of my system. I imagine that fresh first-years would be more tied up in the pedantics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105220) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:33 PM Author: Apoplectic stain even the fussier ones i met didn't give a shit about that kind of stuff, but then there can be variation from district to district and circuit to circuit, i'd guess. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105248) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:34 PM Author: Slippery Forum Cr, also you have to rationalize the countless wasted hours spent on law review pretending stuff like whether you italicize this or small caps this or if it’s Sec’y of State or Sec’y of St. matters. Oh or the different rules for this self important state appeal court versus that self important state superior court.
On second thought just do [sic] throughout. They’ll either be self aware enough to see you as a fellow sufferer or still believe it’s important.
Ugh. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:31 PM Author: Slippery Forum Cr, for a chill bro above [sic] he sounds a little flustered (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105231) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:34 PM Author: Apoplectic stain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105257) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:34 PM Author: cerebral people who are hurt home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105260) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:30 PM Author: Vivacious fanboi It should only be done for an egregious error. Like misspelling a name or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105205) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:31 PM Author: cerebral people who are hurt home Hell yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105210) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:31 PM Author: Mind-boggling theater stage scourge upon the earth I just correct it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105214) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:32 PM Author: cerebral people who are hurt home You guys are pussies. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105238) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:59 PM Author: Learning Disabled Tantric Stag Film Do what gets the best result. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105533) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 2:12 PM Author: Mind-boggling theater stage scourge upon the earth It makes you look petty. The focus should remain on whatever issue you're trying to argue. Don't detract from it. Who cares about a typo? The court won't. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105637) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 2:13 PM Author: cerebral people who are hurt home I prefer being petty. If it’s a portion of their brief that helps my case WORTH QUOTING then I will dunk on them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105648) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 2:20 PM Author: Mind-boggling theater stage scourge upon the earth Probably just gets ignored and doesn't hurt you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105703) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:35 PM Author: Dead shrine Just correct it with square brackets. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105268) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:53 PM Author: supple shaky temple pozpig underline in red (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105466) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 2:02 PM Author: Learning Disabled Tantric Stag Film Squiggly red. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105566) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 2:03 PM Author: offensive police squad sic neg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105576) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 2:07 PM Author: Apoplectic stain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105604) |