A federal judge in Florida recently corrected dozens of errors in a routine motion. Many of the errors involved typos, but he also make corrections on errors that even excellent writers routinely make. Four things that didn’t impress the judge were: Faulty capitalization of Order and Motion. The rule is to use lowercase when these words are used generically, and only capitalize them when they refer to a specific document. Faulty capitalization of Plaintiff, Defendant, and Court. The rule is to capitalize plaintiff and defendant when they are used as the names of the parties. And capitalize court when referring to the court in which the case is pending or the Supreme Court. Faulty punctuation of quoted material. Motions and briefs filed in American…