Cite this page: Popov v. Hayashi (Bonds 73rd HR ball case)

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Primary citation: Popov v. Hayashi, No. 400545 (Cal. Super. Ct., S.F. County, Dec. 18, 2002)

Per archive standards, citations are emitted only from fields that are actually populated in the metadata. Styles that require data not on file are omitted rather than synthesized.

Bluebook

Popov v. Hayashi, No. 400545 (Cal. Super. Ct., S.F. County, Dec. 18, 2002)

Chicago (notes-bibliography)

Alex Popov, Patrick Hayashi, and Honorable Kevin M. McCarthy, Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, Department 306. 2002. "Alex Popov v. Patrick Hayashi — Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, Statement of Decision (Dec. 18, 2002)." Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco. https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/scramble/judge_decision.pdf (accessed 2026-05-18).

BibTeX

@misc{2002-12-18_caselaw_popov-v-hayashi,
  title = {Alex Popov v. Patrick Hayashi — Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, Statement of Decision (Dec. 18, 2002)},
  year = {2002},
  author = {Alex Popov, Patrick Hayashi, and Honorable Kevin M. McCarthy, Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, Department 306},
  url = {https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/scramble/judge_decision.pdf},
  urldate = {2026-05-18},
  note = {SHA256: 62d19ac73a3983d6a241a7a5d5dcffb562cb658c8d2683b4cb0d37e46e31ca00}
}

Archive citation

Baseball Documents Archive, "Popov v. Hayashi (Bonds 73rd HR ball case)", slug 2002-12-18_caselaw_popov-v-hayashi, SHA256 62d19ac73a39…, retrieved 2026-05-18.

Cite this archived version

Popov v. Hayashi, No. 400545 (Cal. Super. Ct., S.F. County, Dec. 18, 2002). Baseball Documents Archive, slug 2002-12-18_caselaw_popov-v-hayashi, SHA256 62d19ac73a39…. retrieved 2026-05-18; from https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/scramble/judge_decision.pdf.

Notes on citation

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  • The BibTeX entry uses the document slug as its key. The SHA256 of the on-disk file is included in the note field for fingerprint-level verification.
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