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Brief-bros: quoting opponents brief, hit em with dat (sic) for typo?

Is this too catty?
marvelous lemon theater indirect expression
  05/22/18
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marvelous lemon theater indirect expression
  05/22/18
insert a footnote explaining what was actually in their brie...
excitant meetinghouse
  05/22/18
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Chocolate Cruise Ship Dingle Berry
  05/22/18
It always looks catty to me
jet self-centered institution ape
  05/22/18
Why are litigators such catty fags?
Comical coral round eye
  05/22/18
yeah I don’t want to do it, seems like a cheap shot. I just ...
marvelous lemon theater indirect expression
  05/22/18
right
Comical coral round eye
  05/22/18
when you quote, do it correctly, sans typo
plum antidepressant drug heaven
  05/22/18
...
jet self-centered institution ape
  05/22/18
cool ty
marvelous lemon theater indirect expression
  05/22/18
No. That's not quoting. I think brackets are the best way...
Irradiated Mustard Black Woman
  05/22/18
titcr (the c stands for CLASSY!)
Concupiscible carnelian trump supporter
  05/22/18
Lol, that’s an even bigger dunk than sick. Doing this from ...
Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film
  05/22/18
In this particular case, "statu[te]" might be bett...
Irradiated Mustard Black Woman
  05/22/18
This is the way to go. Changing it without saying anything i...
Fragrant Selfie
  05/22/18
...
duck-like french chef gaping
  05/22/18
No. Style on them.
Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film
  05/22/18
it is catty. don't do it.
plum antidepressant drug heaven
  05/22/18
ty
marvelous lemon theater indirect expression
  05/22/18
catty as fuck unless they have like 40 typos.
supple sepia brunch
  05/22/18
only if it is egregious, like they forgot to change the name...
Soul-stirring Disrespectful Church Building Kitty Cat
  05/22/18
Only time I’ve ever done it is when they misspelled the judg...
violet impertinent community account stead
  05/22/18
Haha wow holy shit
marvelous lemon theater indirect expression
  05/22/18
no i hate the assholes who are assholes like that, and i've ...
duck-like french chef gaping
  05/22/18
Context matters. The substantively inconsequential errors of...
Irradiated Mustard Black Woman
  05/22/18
sure. but it's really only a question and an issue in the f...
duck-like french chef gaping
  05/22/18
Once with a pro se plaintiff I put a generic footnote saying...
Soul-stirring Disrespectful Church Building Kitty Cat
  05/22/18
agreed.
duck-like french chef gaping
  05/22/18
Tastefully change the quote to the correct spelling using br...
cracking amber weed whacker property
  05/22/18
Settle down, I’m just asking questions here.
marvelous lemon theater indirect expression
  05/22/18
he sounds kind of like the asshole he's denigrating. but i ...
duck-like french chef gaping
  05/22/18
The real risk is the clerks. Many of whom are 25 year old hy...
Soul-stirring Disrespectful Church Building Kitty Cat
  05/22/18
were you a clerk too? my sense from having been one and wor...
duck-like french chef gaping
  05/22/18
I was a clerk but I IRL'd for a couple years first, so that ...
Soul-stirring Disrespectful Church Building Kitty Cat
  05/22/18
even the fussier ones i met didn't give a shit about that ki...
duck-like french chef gaping
  05/22/18
Cr, also you have to rationalize the countless wasted hours ...
Flesh Underhanded Market Organic Girlfriend
  05/22/18
Cr, for a chill bro above [sic] he sounds a little flustered
Flesh Underhanded Market Organic Girlfriend
  05/22/18
...
duck-like french chef gaping
  05/22/18
...
Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film
  05/22/18
It should only be done for an egregious error. Like misspell...
disturbing love of her life nursing home
  05/22/18
Hell yes
Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film
  05/22/18
I just correct it.
unholy purple resort
  05/22/18
You guys are pussies.
Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film
  05/22/18
Do what gets the best result.
Irradiated Mustard Black Woman
  05/22/18
It makes you look petty. The focus should remain on whatever...
unholy purple resort
  05/22/18
I prefer being petty. If it’s a portion of their brief that...
Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film
  05/22/18
Probably just gets ignored and doesn't hurt you.
unholy purple resort
  05/22/18
Just correct it with square brackets.
Fragrant Selfie
  05/22/18
underline in red
soggy claret school new version
  05/22/18
Squiggly red.
Irradiated Mustard Black Woman
  05/22/18
sic neg
Flirting national
  05/22/18
...
duck-like french chef gaping
  05/22/18


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Date: May 22nd, 2018 11:50 AM
Author: marvelous lemon theater indirect expression

Is this too catty?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36104251)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 11:52 AM
Author: marvelous lemon theater indirect expression



(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: excitant meetinghouse

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: Chocolate Cruise Ship Dingle Berry



(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: jet self-centered institution ape

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: Comical coral round eye

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: marvelous lemon theater indirect expression

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: Comical coral round eye

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: plum antidepressant drug heaven

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: jet self-centered institution ape



(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: marvelous lemon theater indirect expression

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: Irradiated Mustard Black Woman

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]."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105009)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:31 PM
Author: Concupiscible carnelian trump supporter

titcr

(the c stands for CLASSY!)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105232)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:34 PM
Author: Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film

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: Irradiated Mustard Black Woman

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: Fragrant Selfie

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: duck-like french chef gaping



(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: Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film

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: plum antidepressant drug heaven

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: marvelous lemon theater indirect expression

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: supple sepia brunch

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: Soul-stirring Disrespectful Church Building Kitty Cat

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: violet impertinent community account stead

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: marvelous lemon theater indirect expression

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: duck-like french chef gaping

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: Irradiated Mustard Black Woman

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105032)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:16 PM
Author: duck-like french chef gaping

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: Soul-stirring Disrespectful Church Building Kitty Cat

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105044)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:17 PM
Author: duck-like french chef gaping

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: cracking amber weed whacker property

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105085)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:19 PM
Author: marvelous lemon theater indirect expression

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: duck-like french chef gaping

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: Soul-stirring Disrespectful Church Building Kitty Cat

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: duck-like french chef gaping

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: Soul-stirring Disrespectful Church Building Kitty Cat

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: duck-like french chef gaping

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: Flesh Underhanded Market Organic Girlfriend

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105265)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:31 PM
Author: Flesh Underhanded Market Organic Girlfriend

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: duck-like french chef gaping



(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: Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film



(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: disturbing love of her life nursing home

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: Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film

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: unholy purple resort

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: Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film

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: Irradiated Mustard Black Woman

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: unholy purple resort

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: Vivacious Crystalline Stag Film

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: unholy purple resort

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: Fragrant Selfie

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: soggy claret school new version

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: Irradiated Mustard Black Woman

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: Flirting national

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: duck-like french chef gaping



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983684&forum_id=2#36105604)