[EL] Misspellings of Vieth: A bit of holiday levity

[Richard Winger]

This reminds me to ask everyone, what is the proper pronunciation of Valeo (from Buckley v Valeo)? This is an extremely unimportant matter that has bothered me for the 40 years since it came out.  Valeo was the Clerk of the US House of Representatives.  I don't know why he was the lead defendant.
 Richard Winger 415-922-9779 PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
      From: Paul Gronke <paul.gronke at gmail.com>
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 Subject: [EL] Misspellings of Vieth: A bit of holiday levity
   
Which is worse?  Finding a number of misspellings of a major Supreme Court case in a set of final proofs (how did it slip through so many times…).  Or finding out that the name might be a candidate for the most commonly misspelled legal citation in history?  

Completely made up statistic of course, but if you search Google, Vieth v. Jubelirer returns 10,400 results, but the “alternative” spelling Veith v. Jubelirer returns 1760 results including quite a few significant legal case books, political science volumes, and artilces. 

Any other candidates for a court case that is so frequently misspelled?  

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