CAUTION regarding reporter abbreviations!

Many of the Commissioner's Decisions cite case law, but the citations often appear without the right punctuation! Lexis Nexis is very picky about punctuation i.e., unless you type in the missing periods in the reporter name, you'll get no case!

EXAMPLE: Commissioner's Decision 15,774 cites Longwood Cent. School Dist. v. Springs Union Free School Dist., 1 NY3d 385; but to find the case in Lexis, you'll need to put in the periods, 1 n.y.3d 385

So, where do you go to learn the proper punctuation? Page XV of the School Law textbook is a great resource. So are these

• BU Law Library site: better for federal than for indiv. state reporters

• Cleveland Marshall College of Law citations page: great overview of how to read 'em
• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (including what gets omitted and other common citation issues) by Peter Martin, Cornell LII