How do I format, in MLA style, a court document? i.e. from the Supreme Court, an opinion.?
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Actually, you do a legal citation. It reads something like this:\n22 WLA 236.\n\nVolume #, abreviation for the legal volume it came from, page #. Of course, when using MLA, you will place the title of the document first, in parentheses.
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Write one. :)\n\nAre you looking for specific information, or just looking for one to plagiarize?
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Do you need it for the bibliography? I know that www.easybib.com has information on MLA guidlines.
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check ouf www.LAWDEPOT.com,www.formsguru.com is also pretty good! and try http://www.lectlaw.com/formb.htm I just checked this one out and it is pretty simple layout---good luck!
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Here's a macro from Microsoft to help with MLA footnotes and other formatting:\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=73DBEAD3-B37A-425A-9AE8-DD3593B5675B&displaylang=EN\n\nHere's an addon product from Microsoft to provide templates and assistance for MLA and APA:\nhttp://www.referencepointsoftware.net/Microsoft/
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Words on a page.\n\nThere are many different types of legal documents, and they may look very different based on local court rules, what the document is trying to do, etc.\n\nFor example, contracts and wills are both legal documents, but don't have any specific formatting that they all must share.\n\nIn contrast, court documents that involve pleadings, motions and other filings with court tend to follow standard rules. The simplest way to check is to get a copy of the local court rules for your county civil court. That will specify formatting issues used by that court.
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Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States\n\nYou're not likely to find term paper quality answers to questions on websites like Yahoo Answers - people aren't, in general, too keen on doing other people's homework. You'd do better to find yourself some reliable reference pages on the internet to start your information searches. Wikipedia, the site the above article is part of, is always a good start, although you should take care to verify all information obtained from it.
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go to : http://citationmachine.net/index.php?new_style=1&reset=1#here
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Are you talking about the bibliography, or list of works cited in the paper?  If so, use MLA style (MLA stands for Modern Language Association).  You can find the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers or the smaller EasyWriter book at a bookstore.  \n\nThe entries are listed alphabetically, and all lines except the first are indented.
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Majority opinion can be found here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0163_0537_ZO.html\n\nDissenting opinion here: see above
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http://www.medlawplus.com/legalforms/instruct/sample-ltintent.pdf\n\nLook at the form on the above site and see if that may be what you need.  Good luck.
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Here is how to write a memorandum of law.\n\n1.         Look at a sample memorandum or several sample memoranda of law. They will give you an idea. Every opinion of the Supreme Court is a memorandum of law. Here is a link to an opinion of the Supreme Court: http://www.circuitlawyer.8m.com/griffin.html You can do a Google search to find a memorandum of law on the subject that you desire. This will save you from re-inventing the wheel. I have some sample memoranda of law that I wrote. \n\n            a.         There are more than 100 winning briefs linked to this following page: http://www.circuitlawyer.8m.com/traffic.html \n\n            b.         Here is a fat memorandum of law that took me a year to write: http://www.lawyerdude.8m.com/Lsdbrief.html \n\n            c.          Here are some of my briefs: http://www.lawyerdude.8k.com/right2drive.html \n\n \n\n2.         Write like you are talking to your Uncle Bob. Explain in simple words what happened to you and what the law is and what you want the court to do.\n\n \n\n3.         Optional: For advanced computer users. Somewhere on the front page give a web address for this brief that you are writing. This will permit people to upgrade from paper to a page on their screen. From the web version they will be able to make the hyperlinks work.\n\n \n\n4.         Write the statement of law that you want to prove: Example: “I was entitled to effective assistance of counsel. The court denied me effective assistance of counsel. The remedy for this denial is dismissal. I am entitled to dismissal in this case.”\n\n \n\n5.         Try to disassemble your point into subdivisions. Example: In the above statement of law there are several subdivisions:\n\n            a.         I was entitled to effective assistance.\n\n            b.         The remedy is dismissal.\n\n            c.          I am entitled to dismissal.\n\n \n\n6.         You will be able to divide each point into further subdivisions.\n\n \n\n7.         Now comes the heart of this work: You must find cases, statutes, rules, and constitutional provisions to support your points. If this is a criminal case then I can help you. The top 143 most important criminal cases are here at this list: http://www.circuitlawyer.8m.com/weinreb.html \n\n \n\n8.         When you find a case to support your point, then extract the key sentence and insert it into the brief. Change the margins to 2 inches and 2 inches. This alerts the reading eye that you have a quotation from a case or statute. This is called “setting off” the quoted phrase.\n\n \n\n9.         This following part is new - and optional: You will notice that I generally provide a hyperlink to the case or statute on the internet. This saves time for the reader - and you. “But, aha!” you say. “From the paper copy nobody can use the hyperlink! So why insert one?” My answer: If you have uploaded your brief to the internet, then your reader can download your brief to his computer and he will use the internet version - where the hyperlinks work. Nobody will read your brief more than you will. You may as well learn to hyperlink and save yourself time in the long run - and thereby increase the odds that the judge will read your brief. Within your brief provide a link to each case that you cite as referrence. Better yet: Link to the pertinent sentence in the Supreme Court case that you are citing in your brief.\n\n \n\n10.       Weave the facts and the law.\n\n            a.         Quote the facts from a transcript if possible.\n\n            b.         If you don’t have a transcript then write a declaration of facts. This is one part of a motion. See Motion 101: http://www.lawyerdude.netfirms.com/6025.html \n\n \n\n11.       It may sound silly, but sometimes the quotation in a case will say exactly what you want to say. In that case. Make your point. Then follow it with the exact quotation from the case. Of course, the quotation will be set off with margins of left
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How to cite Web sites, in MLA format:\nSources on the Web that students and scholars use in their research include scholarly projects, information databases, the texts of books, articles in periodicals, and personal sites. Entries in a works-cited list for such sources contain as many items from the list below as are relevant and available. Following this list are sample entries for some common kinds of Web sources.\n\n   1. Name of the author, editor, compiler, or translator of the source (if given), reversed for alphabetizing and, if appropriate, followed by an abbreviation, such as ed.\n   2. Title of an article, poem, short story, or similar short work in the Internet site (enclosed in quotation marks). Or title of a posting to a discussion list or forum (taken from the subject line and put in quotation marks), followed by the description Online posting\n   3. Title of a book (underlined [Should I use underlining or italics?])\n   4. Name of the editor, compiler, or translator of the text (if relevant and if not cited earlier), preceded by the appropriate abbreviation, such as Ed.\n   5. Publication information for any print version of the source\n   6. Title of the Internet site (e.g., scholarly project, database, online periodical, or professional or personal site (underlined [Should I use underlining or italics?]) or, for a professional or personal site with no title, a description such as Home page\n   7. Name of the editor of the site (if given)\n   8. Version number of the source (if not part of the title) or, for a journal, the volume number, issue number, or other identifying number\n   9. Date of electronic publication, of the latest update, or of posting\n  10. For a work from a subscription service, the name of the service and--if a library or a consortium of libraries is the subscriber--the name and geographic location (e.g., city, state abbreviation) of the subscriber\n  11. For a posting to a discussion list or forum, the name of the list or forum\n  12. The number range or total number of pages, paragraphs, or other sections, if they are numbered\n  13. Name of any institution or organization sponsoring the site (if not cited earlier)\n  14. Date when the researcher accessed the source\n  15. URL of the source or, if the URL is impractically long and complicated, the URL of the site's search page. Or, for a document from a subscription service, the URL of the service's home page, if known; or the keyword assigned by the service, preceded by Keyword; or the sequence of links followed, preceded by Path.
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Well, my opinion is that the document is outdated.  It's just a piece of paper,  made by men after all, and yet it is revered as if made by the hand of God.  \n\nI think it should be considered to draw up a new constitution: One that wouldn't need exhaustive amounts of amendments, and would apply to the state of affairs in 2006 versus 1776.  It could also include and merge all the standing supreme court decisions, which would allow the justices to refer to the constitution instead of court precedent, a practice I find to be admirable but not necessarily wise.  (A decision handed down in the past may nonetheless have been in error.)\n\nI realize that this is an extremely radical viewpoint.  But nonetheless I think people should consider the fact that the constitution is more symbolic now than truly effective.
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http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/declaration_transcript.html\nhttp://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_transcript.html\nhttp://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
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Pick any case that the Supremes have accepted for argument but not yet heard.  Do a complete review of the history of whatever the point of law is.  Talk about the oposing views.  Resolve the question however the hell you want.  Predict that the Supremes will come to the same conclusion.  Give it to the editors.  Go get drunk.
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These journals use a standard method, generally the MLA Standard.  Do a web search for MLA Standard, and you will get lots of help.