AGLC4 Rule 25.1.1: Cases: Parties’ Names

Party names follow the general case name rule, with two United States adjustments: the italic name is followed by a roman comma before the volume, and a comma that precedes an incorporation word such as Inc or Corp inside a company name is removed.

AGLC4 page 264

Formatting

  • The whole case name is italic, including the lower case v, which has no full stop.
  • A comma follows the case name and is not italicised; a space then precedes the volume.
  • No comma appears before Inc, Corp or a similar corporate designation within a party name, even if the party itself uses one.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 264
  1. 1
    Roper v Simmons, 543 US 551, 567 (2005).
  2. 2
    Zapatha v Dairy Mart Inc, 381 Mass 284, 289 (Mass, 1980). [Not: Zapatha v Dairy Mart, Inc, …]

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 264
  • Zapatha v Dairy Mart, Inc, …
    the comma before Inc must be dropped from the party name

See also

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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.