Court case (MLA)

Works cited entry

MLA-222

Utah v. Evans. 536 US 452. Supreme Court of the US. 2002. Legal Information Institute, Cornell U Law School, www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/536/452.

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  • Name the first plaintiff and the first defendant.
  • Then give the volume, name, and page number of the law report; the court name; the year of the decision; and publication information.
  • Do not italicize the name of the case.

In the text of the paper, the name of the case is italicized; see Legal source.

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Legislative act (law)

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Legal source