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==Legal writing== Former Associate Justice [[Stephen Breyer]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] is famous in the American legal community for his writing style, in which he never uses notes. He prefers to keep all citations within the text (which is permitted in American legal citation).<ref>{{cite news | title=In Justice Breyer's Opinion, A Footnote Has No Place | date=1995-07-28 | url =https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE1DC163EF93BA15754C0A963958260 | work =[[The New York Times]] | access-date = 2008-04-30 }}</ref> [[Richard A. Posner]] has also written against the use of notes in judicial opinions.<ref name=Posner2001>{{cite journal|last1=Posner|first1=Richard A.|title=Against Footnotes|journal=Court Review|date=Summer 2001|url=http://aja.ncsc.dni.us/courtrv/cr38-2/CR38-2Posner.pdf|access-date=2014-10-13|publisher=American Judges Association}}</ref> [[Bryan A. Garner]], however, advocates using notes instead of inline citations.<ref>{{cite web|last=Oddi |first=Marcia |url=http://indianalawblog.com/archives/2005/01/indiana_courts_99.html |title=Indiana Courts - Footnotes in Judicial Opinions |publisher=The Indiana Law Blog |date=2005-01-07 |access-date=2015-11-04}}</ref>
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