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    Case Brief Template 01

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    This document provides a template for writing a case brief that summarizes a US Supreme Court case. The template includes sections for the case name and year, key facts, legal issue decided, the court's holding, and summaries of the majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions' reasoning. The majority opinion reasoning should outline the rule of law established and how it applies to the facts of the case. Concurrences and dissents may differ in their proposed rules or applications.

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    This document provides a template for writing a case brief that summarizes a US Supreme Court case. The template includes sections for the case name and year, key facts, legal issue decided, the court's holding, and summaries of the majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions' reasoning. The majority opinion reasoning should outline the rule of law established and how it applies to the facts of the case. Concurrences and dissents may differ in their proposed rules or applications.

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    This document provides a template for writing a case brief that summarizes a US Supreme Court case. The template includes sections for the case name and year, key facts, legal issue decided, the court's holding, and summaries of the majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions' reasoning. The majority opinion reasoning should outline the rule of law established and how it applies to the facts of the case. Concurrences and dissents may differ in their proposed rules or applications.

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    This document provides a template for writing a case brief that summarizes a US Supreme Court case. The template includes sections for the case name and year, key facts, legal issue decided, the court's holding, and summaries of the majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions' reasoning. The majority opinion reasoning should outline the rule of law established and how it applies to the facts of the case. Concurrences and dissents may differ in their proposed rules or applications.

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    Model Case Brief Template and Sample:

    Case:

    Name of the case, (and year of the decision).

    Facts:

    Who are the parties to the lawsuit, what is their dispute, and how did they get to the Supreme Court? In your own

    words, only include the few important facts necessary to understand the case; e.g. the time of day a defendant was

    arrested is usually not important, etc.

    Issue:

    What is the basic legal question regarding what specific provision of law that is to be decided in the case?

    Holding:

    What is the majority’s basic answer to the basic legal question in the case. Also include the vote count:

    majority/plurality—concurrence(s)—dissent(s)

    ***Majority Opinion Reasoning:

    What is the majority’s explanation why it reached its holding? You will want to create a summarized, condensed,

    paraphrased outline of the court’s reasoning. The reasoning simply consists of two things: the RULE and the

    APPLICATION (of the rule to the facts of the case):

    A. Rule:

    What rule of law is announced in the case?

    B. B. Application:

    How does the rule of law specifically apply given the specific facts of the case at issue? In

    other words, given the rule of law that should apply, which party wins according to that rule

    given the facts of the case being heard?

    Concurring Opinion(s) Reasoning:

    What is the reasoning of each separate concurrence (justices who agreed with the majority’s holding but disagreed

    with the majority’s reasoning)? How do they differ in their proposed rule or application (or both)?

    Dissenting Opinion(s) Reasoning:

    What is the reasoning of each separate dissent (justices who disagreed with both the majority’s holding and its

    reasoning)? How do they differ in their proposed rule or application (or both)?

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