Two lessons

Alaska Employment Law calls our attention to a recent minute entry teaching two lessons about proper record citation:

1. If the court has a local rule for citing something, follow the rule.
2. If you don’t follow # 1 above, the court may not consider the material lacking a proper citation.

On one hand, I feel for the lawyer who got slapped with this minute entry. On the other hand, if the court is going to have a rule at all, then the court must also do something to enforce the rule. In this instance, the court made the lawyer re-do the submission using proper citations.