![]() There, the plaintiff failed to yield to oncoming traffic. ![]() Plaintiff filed this action against the wrong defendant. Lowercase: Use a lowercase plaintiff, defendant, or court if (1) they are the plaintiff, defendant, or court in a case you’re citing or (2) you’re referring to plaintiffs, defendants, and courts generically: The Court subsequently denied Defendant’s motion. Uppercase: Capitalize Plaintiff, Defendant, or Court if (1) they are the plaintiff, defendant, or court in the case you’re litigating or (2) you’re using Court to refer to the U.S. The rule here is like the rule for orders and motions. This judge knows his capitalization rules. Faulty Capitalization of ‘Plaintiff,’ ‘Defendant,’ and ‘Court’ Plaintiff hereby files this Response to the Court’s Order. The convention is to lowercase these words when they are used generically to describe a category of actions or papers:ĭefendant in this action has filed a motion to dismiss.īut to capitalize the words when they describe a specific document:īut they disagree, as indicated in Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss. Throughout the judge’s mark-up, he changes “order” to “Order” and “Motion” to “motion.” What gives? ![]() Faulty Capitalization of ‘Order’ and ‘Motion’ Here are four examples the sample sentences are from the judge’s corrected version. He mainly fixed typos, but he also marked up several types of errors that many excellent writers make. A federal judge in Florida once “corrected” dozens of errors in a routine motion.
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