The method
Editorial policy
Primary sources first, a citation in every legal cell, a date on every figure, and corrections that join the record.
Everything the desk publishes passes one gate: was the source opened, and when. This page is the rule written down, so that a reader can hold any line of the journal against it.
Sourcing
A code section is quoted from the published code; a decision from the decision itself; an ordinance from the municipal codification; a health figure from the survey that measured it, with its year. Law firm pages, summaries and aggregators serve to locate a provision, and citation never comes from them: the quote comes from the text. The six step method, with the sources it runs on, is unfolded in how we read the law.
Dates
Every page carries the date it was last read at the source. In the Southern Dog Law Table, a cell without a reading at the source stays without a rule and says so in as many words, because a guessed cell is worse than an empty one. A figure without its year does not run.
Corrections
A correction is published, dated, and noted where the error ran; a citation that moved is chased to its new section before the page is corrected, not after. The address for a correction is on the contact page, the desk that applies this rule is described on the about page, and the same standard governs every commercial placement, under the sponsored content page.