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Supreme Court Amicus Briefs in LaTeX

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Supreme Court Amicus Briefs in LaTeX

This project adapts this Overleaf template, in turn based on LawTeX, to the page and formatting requirements of hte United States Supreme Court, and makes use of XeLaTeX rather than the older PDFLaTeX.

Guide to the Features

The formatting has been updated from the original to meet the SCOTUS specifications, specifically:

  • Typeset in Century family (accomplished with use of TeX Gyre Schola X)
  • paper that is 6 1⁄8 by 9 1⁄4 inches in size (accomplished using the crop package and geometry)
  • the text field, including footnotes, should be approximately 4 1⁄8 by 7 1⁄8 inches (accopmlished with same)
  • 12-point type with 2-point or more leading between lines (accomplished using the leading package)

Using the document class

The main variables can be edited in variables.tex, while brief-content.tex is where to put your argument. The citations are done using the existing LawTeX implementation of BlueBook. Frankly, I would have much preferred to use a version of BibLaTeX, having been spoiled by how excellent BibLaTeX-OSCOLA is, but LawTeX works for now.