Comprehensive Case Brief Assignment
Due Date: August 15 by 5:00PM on ConnectWeb.
The assignment is to write a comprehensive case brief of a U.S. Supreme
Court Decision, Knowles
v. Iowa. Your brief should follow the guidelines described on
page 41 of Statsky and West. They include:
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Full citation
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Parties, including their relationship to each other
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Objectives of parties, that is, their ultimate objectives
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Theories of the litigation for each side
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History of the litigation
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Key facts
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Issues, that is, how the facts relate to the particular rules involved
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Holdings--what the court decided
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Reasoning--why the court decided the way it did
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Disposition--what happened to the case
You do not need to add a "notes" section.