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Analyze one case that the U.S. Supreme Court or the California Supreme Court has written a decision on preferably within the last five years, although older cases may be selected if of particular interest to the student. The case brief should have a case citation (parties involved and year of the case), brief facts (only the most important facts that the court relied on), issues (the question(s) to be resolved by the court), holding/rule of law (the precedent established by the case, which is the court’s answer(s) to the issue(s), reasoning/rationale (why the court ruled as it did), other opinions (e.g., concurring, dissent), and your own brief analysis. Continue reading
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