Your introductory research and writing class probably taught you that constitutions, statutes, and binding caselaw are primary authority. Those should be the basis of any appellate brief.
But is it
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Some moments will stick in your head forever. The birth of a child. The Challenger shuttle disaster. September 11th. President Kennedy’s assassination.
Ironically (and perhaps a little pathetically), “special” moments
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Have a hard time keeping up with your hairbrush, much less finding your bluebook, when you have an important appellate brief due? Don’t know whether you have the most current
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