LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING:

1. List two reasons to brief a case.

2. List two essential items that should be noted in the case brief.

3. What is the procedural history?

4. What are the issues?

5. What is the holding?

6. What are relevant facts?

7. What are dicta and why would you include them in a brief?

8. What is the case's disposition?

9. What is the case's rationale?

10. Whom is the brief generally designed to assist?