Court History Book - Copy Edited Version

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footnotes and bibliography comments:

1. Memorials or Tributes to the judges are published in the Official Georgia Appeals Reports. The official legal citation is the volume number of the report and the page number at which it starts. For footnotes, the actually page number of the quote is shown following the word "at" or a comma. The date of the volume is also included. The Title of the Document is In Memorium, Memorial of or Tribute to followed by the Judge's name. For example, In Memorium Chief Judge Nash R. Broyles, 75 Ga. App. 887, 888 (1947). The 887 in the example is the page number of the report; 888 is the page number for one of the footnotes. The author of the document is a committee, there is no individual author. Where there was a memorial committee chairman, I am giving you that name for the author.

Page numbers in some instances are Roman numerals. The Roman numerals are correct since there are case opinions on the corresponding arabic page numbers.

2. There is a variation throughout the text for case cites. Sometimes you have them after the case name, sometimes in a footnote and sometimes not all. I would suggest we always have them either always in the text after the case name or in footnotes.

Other notes:

1. Please spell out US to United States wherever it occurs.

2. Circuit names should be capitalized, e.g., Macon Judicial Circuit.

3. Capitol when it refers to the Capitol Building is generally capitalized.

4. Please spell check the text again. I noticed that the word "eighty" was misspelled.

5. When the Georgia Appellate Reports are cited in the Bluebook 18th Ed. published by Cornell University it is shown as Ga. App. not GA App. In the U.S. Supreme Court cases, the citation would have periods, that is, U.S. Perhaps you are using a different authority for the legal citations?

6. I am not sure what the proper literary choice is about how should numbers be displayed. Is there a rule about whether numbers up to a certain amount should be in numerals rather than text? I don't believe a single rule has been followed consistently in the text.

3. All copies of the interviews are located in the offices of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.