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Dear Court Reporters (or should I say, "DEAR COURT REPORTERS")

By Jonathan Soglin

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Dear Court Reporters, Having finished reading another all-capitalized reporter's transcript it's time to again implore you to remember that the proper use of capitalization is not simply a matter of style, but it is more a convention designed to assist the reader and prevent headaches. Capitalization helps the reader find the beginning of the sentence. Lower case lettersSincerely,A tired reader. P.S. This applies to brief writers too. As the Seventh Circuit reminds us, "Underlined, all-caps, boldface text is almost illegible."

Full post as published by Criminal Appeal on December 30, 2008 (boomark / email).

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