A student wants to use the following legal case about the desegregation of public schools in an academic paper:
United States, Supreme Court. Brown v. Board of Education. 17 May 1954. Legal Information Institute, Cornell U Law School, www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/347/483.
This is the only government source in the student's paper. Which of the sentences below correctly cite the legal case in question?
Correct
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to have separate public schools for Black and White students (United States).
Incorrect
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to have separate public schools for Black and White students (United States, Supreme Court).
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to have separate public schools for Black and White students (Brown v. Board of Education).
(For legal cases, give whatever comes first in the works-cited entry. If you are citing a government document in parentheses and multiple entries in your works-cited list start with the same government author, give as much of the name as you need to differentiate the sources. This paper has only one government source, so the parenthetical reference should be United States.