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<span class="note-center-top" style="background-position: 10px 16px; margin-left: 20px;"><span class="text">parties</span></span>
<span class="note-center-top" style="background-position: 100px 16px; margin-left: 77px;"><span class="text">reporter volume number</span></span>
<span class="note-center-top-tall" style="background-position: 50px 16px; margin-left: -30px;"><span class="text">reporter abbreviation<br />(Federal Reporter, 2d series)</span></span>
<span class="tall-hash" style="margin-left: -90px;"><img src="http://ruraldesigncollective.org/mosh/bluebook.markup/hash.long.png" /></span>
<span class="note-center-top" style="background-position: 50px 16px; margin-left: 10px;"><span class="text">first page of case</span></span>
<span class="note-center-top-tall" style="background-position: 50px 16px; margin-left: 5px;"><span class="text">span of specific<br />pages referred to</span></span>
<span class="tall-hash" style="margin-left: -65px;"><img src="http://ruraldesigncollective.org/mosh/bluebook.markup/hash.long.png" /></span>
<span class="note-center-top" style="background-position: 30px 16px; margin-left: 35px;"><span class="text">deciding court</span></span>
<span class="note-center-top-tall" style="background-position: 50px 16px; margin-left: 10px;"><span class="text">date of<br />decision</span></span>
<span class="tall-hash" style="margin-left: -25px;"><img src="http://ruraldesigncollective.org/mosh/bluebook.markup/hash.long.png" /></span><br />
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<span class="phrase-top">
United States v. MacDonald,
</span>
<span class="phrase-ordm-top">
&ordm;
</span>
<span class="phrase-top">
531
</span>
<span class="phrase-ordm-top">
&ordm;
</span>
<span class="phrase-top">
F.2d
</span>
<span class="phrase-ordm-top">
&ordm;
</span>
<span class="phrase-top">
196,
</span>
<span class="phrase-ordm-top">
&ordm;
</span>
<span class="phrase-top">
199-200
</span>
<span class="phrase-ordm-top">
&ordm;
</span>
<span class="phrase-top">
(4th Cir.
</span>
<span class="phrase-ordm-top">
&ordm;
</span>
<span class="phrase-top">
1976)
</span>
<span class="phrase-ordm-top">
&ordm;
</span><br />

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<span class="note-center-bottom" style="background-position: 24px 0px; margin-left: 324px;">parenthetical phrase describing<br />decision of Fourth Circuit)</span>
<span class="phrase-bottom">
(resting review of the dispositive issue on the principle of judicial economy),
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<span class="phrase-ordm"></span><br />

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&ordm;
<span class="note-center-bottom" style="background-position: 24px 0px;">action of higher court</span>
<span class="phrase-bottom">
rev'd,
</span>
<span class="phrase-ordm">
&ordm;
</span>
<span class="note-center-bottom" style="background-position: 24px 0px; margin-left: 64px;">citation of reversal</span>
<span class="phrase-bottom">
435 &ordm; U.S. &ordm; 850 &ordm; (1978).
</span>
<span class="phrase-ordm"></span><br />
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line-height: 12px;
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position: relative;
top: 0px;
text-align: center;
height: 9px;
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line-height: 12px;
padding: 0px 0px 16px 0px;
position: relative;
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/***

This is a Compass-free version of a mapped citation. Our coding objective was to match the original Bluebook citation as close as possible without using JavaScript or code frameworks.

***/
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