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A Legal Research Newsletter for Federal Government from West
October 2008

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About Those Pinpoint Citations...

For some work product you may want pinpoint citations, i.e., a citation to the print page on which the cited material appears. Star Paging is a Westlaw feature that automatically displays the page numbers of cases appearing in print publications. Star Paging for United States Reports in the All U.S. Supreme Court Cases database (SCT) is current through the most recent advance sheets received at West.* At present, United States Reports advance sheets, published by the Government Printing Office (GPO), are several years behind the date of decision.**
Editor's note: You can retrieve cases using a pinpointcitation. Access Find and type the citation. Find will display the case beginning at the point of the pinpoint citation, e.g., 127 sct 2178.
* United States Reports page numbers are marked with one asterisk (*615) while Supreme Court Reporter® page numbers have two asterisks (**2594).
** West receives lists of the starting pages of the United States Reports from the U.S. Supreme Court. West adds parallel citations to United States Reports from these lists to documents in SCT.