Legal-decision readers are familiar with quotation parentheticals like (emphasis added/omitted/changed), (alteration in original), (quotation marks and citation omitted), or (cleaned up).

A new kid shows up every once in a great while: (emojis omitted).

I noticed (emojis omitted) in the August 29, 2024 memorandum decision from the Indiana Court of Appeals Shannon v Indiana, 23A-CR-2744 but the practice may have first started in 2015.

A Google Scholar search of both federal and state case law returns 9 results, from different state and federal courts. Examples include:

(Emojis omitted.)

(shrugging and rainbow flag emojis omitted)

(internal emojis omitted)

Individual preferences vary but I find the “(shrugging and rainbow flag emojis omitted)” example to be the most informative style for the reader.