i made contact with brad simpson and he confirmed that he was going to author the bluebook fourth edition and had
NO PLANS to have a co-author as he attempted before with what's her name.
he also was very forthright in his response as to what took place with the third edition and all i can say is i feel for the guy.
he did say he would always appreciate contributing editors.
this makes my post of no value so there is no need for further speculation and if i offended anyone with the post it was not intentional!
jeff