To: Basic Legal Skills - Writing Students
From: Professor Noble Nacev
Date: February 2014
Re: Appellate Brief and Oral Argument Assignment
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Please write an Appellate brief and later prepare an oral argument based on these Appellate Brief Problem documents posted on TWEN. Each student will write a brief addressing all pertinent issues. During class 6 you will decide which party you will represent; you will write your brief and argue the case from the point of view of your client. You will also identify your co-counsel and opposing counsel at that time.
Discussions with the members of your “law firm,” as well as with the rest of the class, will provide you with opportunities to test the strengths and weaknesses of your arguments and to anticipate and rebut counter arguments. However, please be certain to follow the guidelines in your syllabus and the Basic Legal Skills – Writing, Student Manual, posted on TWEN, requiring that your research and writing be your own.
The Appellate Brief Problem documents posted on TWEN comprise the official record and have all the information you need to research and write your briefs. Please cite directly to these documents in your Statements of the Case and in your Arguments. Cite as: (R. at ___ ). if incorporated within a sentence; cite as (R. at ____.) if cited as a parenthetical following a sentence. See Bluebook B7.1.2 on page 20 and the TWEN posting entitled Record References Illustrated. Note the placement of the period. (The meaning of the “see” signal and other signals will be the subject of class discussion.) Use the page numbers in the Appellate Brief Problem documents as the pages of the record on wh...
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Mid-Waters Marina, Inc., )
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NOTICE OF APPEAL
Notice is hereby given that Noel Nonesuch hereby appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Middle Circuit from the final judgment entered in this action on the 2nd day of January, 2014.
Filed: January 4, 2014
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Attorney for Noel Nonesuch, Plaintiff
(NOTE: The appeal is pending before the United States Circuit Court for the Middle Circuit. The docket number assigned to this case on appeal is: 14-12)
This would be a good book for a senior law class to read and relate their ideas
Procedural History The Supreme Court, Appellate, second division modified the the judgment and ordered that the custody of the youngest child remain with the mother. Husband appealed. The Court of Appeals, Jasen,J; held that after the custody of the two older children had been awarded to the husband, it was appropriate for special term to award of the youngest child to the husband in the light of the younger child’s ambivalence as to which of her parents she would prefer to live with and her strong preference to live with two older
Lester, etal V Percadani, etal. United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Retrieve October 31, 200 http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/opinions/conner/01v1182a.pdf
As instructed in the outline for this assignment, I have read and analysed the case of R. v. Keegstra. I have understood the allegations placed and the defence of the same. Also, I have answered the questions provided explaining the rights at stake, the procedure that court adopted to reach to a final decision and that whether or not it was able to reach a balance between the individual and the group rights.
Questions Presented: This is where the legal issues are stated that the party would like for the appellate court to think about and make a final decision (Statsky, pg. 545).
(7) Right to appellate review: The Supreme Court did not rule regarding appeal since their ruling was this case was to be remanded back to the lower courts.
This confirms your assignment as the law clerk with primary responsibility for the above-entitled case. At the moment, a hearing date is not scheduled. However, once the hearing date is scheduled you may be required to prepare a bench memo. I will inform you as soon as the date for oral argument is scheduled.
Her appeal was later focused on the search and seizure violations of her Fourth Amendment right. Her appeal made it to the Supreme Court of the United States (Mapp v.
The case State v. Snowden is an appeal by the defendant were the defendant pleaded guilty to an evidence charging Raymond Alien Snowden with the crime of murder of first degree. The trial of the defendant was represented by the district Court, 3rd Judicial District, Ada County, were Snowden entered judgment and sentenced of death but he appealed. Snowed was at a bar in the evening drinking and playing pool in a Boise pool room, he and other person visited another club near the one where they were playing pool, nearby Garden city. That same day Snowden and his friend visited several bars also drinking, at the end they stop at HiHo club. That same bar he met and starts having a conversation to this lady Cora Lucyle Dean, they start dancing and having a time together and they left together, while they were walking they start arguing in the street, because she wanted him to find her a cab and take her to back to Boise, but he said that he shouldn’t be paying her fare.
LAWRENCE V. TEXAS. 478 U. S. 186 :: Volume 478 :: 1986 :: Full Text." US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez. .
After analyzing the discourse community of law and the detailed process lawyers take in order to write an effective appeals brief, one can see that lawyers have a very specific and unique way of communicating that includes certain jargon unfamiliar and possibly incomprehensible to the general public. Although writing an appeal brief is only one aspect of many that government prosecuting attorneys such as Kenny Elser face in their jobs on a daily basis, it is also a very necessary job because not only is it used by a single discourse community in the law profession but utilized by the discourse community of law as a whole.
...r case. You should include a table of contents, a table of authorities, a jurisdiction statement, questions or issues, a statement of the case, a summary of the argument, the argument, and a conclusion.
Legal writing became an important skill that I’ve learned to develop in the last couple of months. Wanting to become a lawyer and having no idea about the skills an aspiring lawyer must acquire was setting me up for failure. Luckily, through UWP I’ve acquire skills such as; reading court cases, drafting case briefs, and creating appellate briefs. However, 10 weeks is not enough time to gather all the writing skills needed for law school. As a result, I have identified my strengths, weaknesses, and ways to improve my legal writing skills.
JOHN E. REDSTONE, KARL H.SCHULZ, and DEAN M. BASTILLA verse Google INC. No. 3:10-cv-00400-JPG -DGW. US District Courth for the Southern District of Illinois. April 2010.
...rts and Defenses: The court which would hear this case is the magistrate court and then if found guilty the district court and no defenses