How to Brief a Case in Law School

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Résumé

TLDREl video proporciona una introducción sobre cómo redactar resúmenes de casos legales, un crucial instrumento de aprendizaje y análisis para estudiantes de derecho. Estos resúmenes deben estructurarse de manera que incluyan información clave, como el encabezado o nombre del caso, la historia procesal, el contexto con las partes y hechos materiales, los temas legales, el razonamiento del tribunal, y una evaluación personal del caso. Se destaca la importancia de entender la diferencia entre cuestiones legales y de hecho, y se ofrece una guía paso a paso sobre cómo abordar un caso, haciendo énfasis en la importancia de la práctica para mejorar en la lectura y análisis de casos legales. También se recomienda el documento "Thoughts on Reading and Briefing Cases" para obtener más detalles sobre la preparación de resúmenes de casos.

A retenir

  • ✍️ La redacción de resúmenes de casos es una herramienta educativa crucial para analizar casos legales.
  • ⚖️ Diferenciar entre cuestiones legales y de hecho es esencial para entender los casos.
  • 📝 El encabezado del caso debe incluir el nombre del tribunal y el año de la decisión.
  • 📚 La historia procesal detalla el recorrido del caso antes de llegar al tribunal actual.
  • 🔍 El razonamiento del tribunal es la parte más importante del resumen del caso.
  • 🧠 La evaluación personal del caso ayuda a asimilar el conocimiento adquirido.
  • 🡇 Los estudiantes deben practicar la redacción de resúmenes para mejorar su capacidad de análisis.
  • 📖 Leer casos múltiples ayudará a identificar temas legales predominantes.
  • ✅ Se aconseja revisar el documento 'Thoughts on Reading and Briefing Cases' para más detalles.
  • 🤝 La orientación mencionada ayudará a preparar mejor a los estudiantes antes del inicio del curso.

Chronologie

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    El video presenta información preliminar para estudiantes de derecho sobre cómo preparar 'casos briefing', fundamentales en el análisis de disputas legales. Aunque gran parte de las disputas en el sistema legal se resuelven sin llegar a juicio, los estudiantes leerán casos que fueron llevados a juicio y posiblemente apelados. Se explican la diferencia entre cuestiones legales y de hecho, y se introduce la herramienta llamada 'resumen de casos', que ayuda a los estudiantes a desglosar y analizar los casos de manera estructurada. El primer paso para preparar un resumen de caso es identificar el título del caso y el tribunal que lo juzgó.

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    El resumen de un caso debe incluir la historia procesal, los objetivos de las partes, los hechos materiales, los problemas legales, las teorías legales de las partes, la resolución del tribunal y su razonamiento. Usando el caso Gideon vs. Wainwright, se ilustran conceptos como la obligación del Estado de proporcionar un abogado a un indigente acusado de un crimen grave y el impacto de la cláusula del debido proceso de la Enmienda Catorce. Además, se anima a los estudiantes a evaluar las opiniones del caso, considerando qué argumentos les parecen más convincentes, y cómo este caso se suma a su conocimiento previo. Finalmente, se ofrece una revisión general del formato de resumen de casos que se utilizará durante el curso.

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Questions fréquemment posées

  • ¿Qué es un resumen de caso?

    Es un conjunto de notas estructuradas que ayuda a analizar casos legales. Nadie más lo verá, así que su estructura es personal.

  • ¿Qué debe incluir el encabezado del resumen de un caso?

    Debe incluir el nombre del caso, el tribunal que lo resolvió y el año de la decisión, por ejemplo, Gideon v Wainwright, Corte Suprema de EE.UU., 1963.

  • ¿Qué debe incluir la historia procesal en un resumen de caso?

    Debe detallar dónde ha estado el caso antes de llegar al tribunal de apelación; por ejemplo, si pasó por un tribunal de primera instancia y luego por un tribunal de apelación intermedio.

  • ¿Cuál es la parte más importante de un resumen de caso y por qué?

    El razonamiento del tribunal, ya que explica la lógica detrás de la decisión.

  • ¿Cómo se debe evaluar y sintetizar un caso en un resumen?

    Se debe reflexionar sobre la persuasión y solidez de las opiniones, compararlas y considerar cómo el caso agrega a la comprensión y conocimiento previo.

  • ¿Qué es importante considerar al leer varios casos legales?

    Identificar los temas legales predominantes y cómo las decisiones afectaron o añadieron al conocimiento previo.

  • ¿Cómo se debería usar el documento "Thoughts on Reading and Briefing Cases"?

    Como recurso adicional para obtener más detalles sobre la lectura y redacción de resúmenes de casos antes de la orientación.

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    hello I'm looking forward to being with
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    you on the first day of orientation but
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    before then we wanted to provide you
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    with some information about briefing
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    cases you all know that the ultimate
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    vehicle for resolving disputes under our
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    legal system is litigation I hope you
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    also appreciate that most disputes never
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    get to trial never even get to the
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    filing of a of a lawsuit they're settled
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    by agreement but you're going to be
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    reading situations where that did not
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    occur and where the matter went not only
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    to a trial court but on up to at least
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    one appellate court I also want you to
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    appreciate the difference between legal
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    issues and fact issues example the
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    question is a store liable to a customer
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    who slipped on water that was spilled by
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    a store employee that question is a
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    legal issue it asks a legal question in
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    contrast if we had a question was the
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    water spilled by a store employee or by
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    a customer that's a fact issue many
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    disputes involve only fact issues the
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    parties have no disagreement about what
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    the legal principles that govern might
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    be their entire dispute is over what
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    actually happened you're not going to
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    read cases like that you're going to
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    read cases that might have some factual
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    disputes but the legal issues will
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    predominate now I want to talk about a
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    tool that you're going to need to use to
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    help you analyze the cases that you read
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    it's called a case brief it's a set of
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    structured notes it's a tool for you
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    nobody else is going to see it nobody
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    else is going to read it so you can
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    structure it as you wish but I've got
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    some suggestions on at least one way to
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    do it and maybe since you're beginners
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    you might want to try my way at the
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    beginning and adjust accordingly as you
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    go on through the semester the first
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    thing you need in your in your case
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    brief
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    is the caption now that's pretty easy
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    because that's going to be in the
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    casebook many of you read Gideon's
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    trumpet by Anthony Lewis so I'm going to
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    use that Gideon versus Wainwright case
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    as an example if you were reading Gideon
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    in a case book this is what you'd see
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    Gideon V Wainwright 372 us three fifty
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    five parentheses 1963 for your caption
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    you need the Gideon V Wainwright part
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    you don't need the numbers right you're
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    not going to be looking up finding to
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    find the volume or the page number where
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    this case may be found because it's in
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    your case book but what you do have to
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    do is figure out what that abbreviation
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    US means what court does that stand for
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    well it stands for the United States
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    Supreme Court so here's how your caption
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    will look
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    Gideon V Wainwright United States
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    Supreme Court 1963 obviously the court
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    that decides a case and the year in
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    which it was decided can be very
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    important your caption will give that to
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    you of course your caption does
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    something else for you as well it's sort
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    of an indexing tool for you you're going
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    to be writing many case briefs over the
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    course of the semester and obviously the
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    caption tells you which case this
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    particular brief is about okay the next
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    part is going to be a procedural history
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    or we might say the posture of the case
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    that is where is this case bin before it
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    got to the appellate court whose opinion
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    you're reading maybe just a trial court
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    maybe a trial court and an intermediate
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    level appellate court and then finally
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    perhaps the Supreme Court of a state or
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    as some states use different names like
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    Court of Appeals you need to look at the
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    abbreviation in the caption and find out
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    what court decided that case that's the
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    only tricky thing to do with the caption
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    okay what's the next part of the of your
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    case brief well as dean Epps told you in
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    her video on reading cases right you're
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    going to read a case a lot of times more
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    than once for sure more than twice most
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    of the time because a lot is going on
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    this portion of your brief
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    the contact is going to have the parties
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    their objectives and the material facts
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    let's go back and use Gideon again just
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    illustrate this who are the parties well
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    mr. Gideon and the state of Florida what
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    was his objective in this litigation
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    that reached the United States Supreme
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    Court his objective was to get a new
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    trial but this time with a
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    court-appointed attorney
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    what were the material facts well one
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    material fact was that Gideon was a
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    accused of a felony another material
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    fact was that he could not afford a
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    lawyer on his own and the third
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    important fact was that he requested a
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    court to appoint him a lawyer and the
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    courts in Florida denied him denied that
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    request those are the key facts upon
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    which the opinion will turn as Dean Epps
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    also told you in her video you're going
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    to read the case a second time a third
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    time maybe even more than that for
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    perhaps the hardest part for you to
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    handle and that is the legal content
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    what are the issues or issues in the
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    case what were the theories the
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    arguments that were put forward by the
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    parties for their position what did the
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    court eventually hold and what was its
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    disposition of the matter right that's
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    the legal content a very very important
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    part of your case brief again just to
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    illustrate using Gideon what was the
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    issue the issue was does the United
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    States Constitution require a state to
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    appoint a lawyer for indigent who is
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    charged with a very serious crime that's
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    the legal issue what were the legal
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    theories well the legal theories dealt
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    with the Due Process Clause of the
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    Fourteenth Amendment I'm not going to go
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    into the details what was the courts
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    holding the United States Supreme Court
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    held that yes indeed that Due Process
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    Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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    requires a state to appoint counsel for
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    one who cannot afford a lawyer and if
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    that person is charged with a serious
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    crime what was the disposition of
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    the case what actually did the Supreme
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    Court do it reversed the decision of the
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    Florida Supreme Court it remanded the
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    matter back to the Supreme Court to act
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    in accordance with its decision that's
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    the legal content okay the next part of
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    your case brief is the most important
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    and that is the courts reasoning its
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    rationale for reaching that holding and
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    that disposition for example in Gideon
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    this is where you would focus in on
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    justice blacks majority opinion the
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    reasons he gave for his conclusions and
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    often you're going to have to compare
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    the reasoning of the majority opinion
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    with that of a dissenting opinion
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    finally and this is your last section
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    the evaluation and synthesis portion of
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    of your case brief very important to
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    your learning what you're going to think
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    about first is what do I think about
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    these opinions that I've just just
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    analyzed and I put into my into my brief
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    are they persuasive to me are they sound
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    do I do I think the stronger point is
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    made by the dissent or by the majority
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    you're going to assess that right and
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    then you're going to write it down in
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    your case brief you're also going to
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    think about how does this case add to my
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    understanding add to my knowledge what
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    does it add to the cases that preceded
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    it to our prior class discussions that's
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    your synthesis section again you're
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    going to go to that couch you're going
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    to think about it you're going to come
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    back and you're going to record it so
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    that you have captured your thoughts in
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    this structured set of notes that we
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    call a case brief okay by way of review
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    here is the whole template right we have
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    the caption we have the procedural
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    history right we have the the context
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    the parties their objectives the
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    material facts we've got the legal
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    content the issue or issues the legal
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    arguments and theories right we have the
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    holding the disposition and then we get
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    to the courts reasoning and finally
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    your evaluation your evaluation of those
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    opinions that you've just considered and
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    your synthesis your your take away from
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    what this case adds to your knowledge
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    this is not going to be easy for you at
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    first I know the first case we have you
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    read in litigation basics is a very
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    short little case but it's going to take
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    you a while to figure out exactly what's
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    going on and then we'll be spending some
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    time on it in the litigation basic class
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    going over it going over that very very
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    short case but I assure you with
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    practice and you're going to get a lot
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    of practice doing case briefs with
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    practice you're going to get better at
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    reading cases you're going to get better
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    at briefing cases right you eventually
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    probably aren't going to necessarily
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    need that whole template you're going to
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    find ways to shortcut to make to make
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    things easier to do without losing
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    anything in the quality of your analysis
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    or in in the notes that you have for
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    later on I might also suggest that you
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    take a look at the short document that
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    Professor Shellenberger and I've
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    prepared
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    it's called thoughts on reading and
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    briefing cases it's got a bit more
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    detail than I offered in this video but
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    I suggest you take a look at that before
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    orientation starts as well see you
Tags
  • resúmenes de casos
  • orientación legal
  • procesos legales
  • análisis de casos
  • estudiantes de derecho
  • redacción de casos
  • temas legales
  • Estados Unidos
  • Corte Suprema
  • práctica legal