# Jurisdiction formatting & court rules

When a case has a **jurisdiction**, the editor applies that jurisdiction's court-rule profile.
Albatross ships profiles for all 50 states, covering things like page size, minimum margins,
minimum font size, required line spacing, and footer requirements. Firms can further customize
per-jurisdiction formatting in Firm settings (but only in ways that stay at least as strict as
the rule).

**How deviations are shown** — the app uses **soft guidance, never hard blocks** in the editor:

- A **"Default"** tag (gray) means a setting matches the profile default.
- A **blue dot** means the setting differs from the default but is still within the rule's
  allowed range — fine, just different.
- An **amber dot** means the setting is **outside the rule's requirement** (e.g. a font smaller
  than the minimum). Hover it for the rule citation.
- Clicking the indicator **resets** that field to the profile default.

The editor will always let you save a deviation — the dots are informational. When the
**assistant** drafts or formats a document, it respects the hard rules and won't produce
out-of-rule values.