Extended DescriptionClose Object 2 Rubric Cell ListClose Close Object 1 Rubric: LSTD Legal Studies Case Brief Rubric UG 300-400 Level Object 3 Show: Descriptions Comments Legal Studies Case Brief Rubri 100 % Exemplary 4 pts Case Name & Case Citation 5 % Complete identification of case name and the parties to the case. Exemplary Case name is correctly stated and parties correctly identified by name and by their role in the litigation; citation to the case itself is complete and accurate and comports with Bluebook format. Accomplished Developing 3.4 pts 3 pts Accomplished Case name is present and parties are identified; citation to the case is given; jurisdiction is evident; errors are minimal. Developing Beginning 2.6 pts Beginning Did not attempt 0 pts Did not attempt The Opinion The Opinion The required can be located cannot be element does based on the accurately not exist in the information identified based brief or is provided and on the unrecognizable the court which information in the brief. rendered it can given and/or be discerned, the parties' role but elements of in the litigation the case name cannot be and/or citation discerned. are missing. Facts Exemplary Accomplished 10 % Key/relevant facts are fully All key/relevant Most provided and easily facts are key/relevant understandable. provided; facts are additional facts provided; provided only as irrelevant facts necessary for the are omitted; reader to statement of understand the facts is decision and the understandable court's analysis; to the reader. facts are presented clearly and concisely and without error or confusion. Procedural Exemplary Accomplished Posture 10 % Demonstrated All essential The history of all essential information the case (where information dealing concerning the it started and with the history of history of the how it came to the case. case (origin, this court) is sequence of case presented with events in various minimal errors courts, and in sequence or current posture) process. is included; courts' names, jurisdictions, and actions are provided and are accurate. Issue Exemplary Accomplished 10 % Proper statement and The legal The legal framing of the legal question or question is question(s). questions before presented this court are accurately, but correctly and lacking in succinctly stated precision and/or and the Issue if is not framed as framed in terms a question. of a question. Developing Beginning Important facts Factual are missing statement is and/or incomplete or unnecessary erroneous, detail is rendering the included; reader brief unusable is confused by to the reader, at the least in part. presentation. Developing Beginning Did not attempt The required element does not exist in the brief or is unrecognizable in the brief. Did not attempt Gaps in the Procedural The required history of the history does not element does case or errors in enable the not exist in the case sequence reader to brief or is or case events understand the unrecognizable exist. history of the in the brief. case and/or how it arrived in this court. Developing Beginning The legal issue The legal issue is identified as is incorrectly a general topic stated. and/or is stated in an overly broad manner; precision is lacking. Did not attempt The required element does not exist in the brief or is unrecognizable in the brief. Holding Exemplary Accomplished 5 % Full restatement of the The court's The court's court's resolution. resolution of the resolution of the legal issue is legal issue is correctly and accurate but is succinctly stated lacking in and is not precision. confused with the Judgment or procedural disposition of the case; Issue and Holding \"match\". Judgment/Disposit Exemplary Accomplished ion 5 % Complete The disposition The disposition restatement of the of the case and of the case is court's disposition. the relief, in any, accurately granted by the stated, but lacks court is precision. accurately and clearly stated. Rationale/Analysis Exemplary 25 % Thorough The court's explanation of how reasoning, the court reached its analysis, and holding. rationale are presented in a complete, succinct, and understandable manner. All relevant considerations are included. Accomplished The court's reasoning and rationale are accurately presented; some analytical detail may be missing, but there are no errors. Developing Beginning Did not attempt The court's resolution of the legal issue is overly broad or is inaccurate in some regard. The court's resolution of the legal issue is incorrectly presented and/or the Holding of a different court is presented, thus presenting an inaccurate picture of this court's decision. The required element does not exist in the brief or is unrecognizable in the brief. Developing Beginning Did not attempt The disposition The disposition of the case can of the case is be discerned erroneously but is unclear to presented. the reader. Developing Beginning The court's The court's reasoning is reasoning is presented in erroneously only general presented, terms which are thereby not instructive misleading the to the reader. reader. The required element does not exist in the brief or is unrecognizable in the brief. Did not attempt The required element does not exist in the brief or is unrecognizable in the brief. Dissent/Comment/ Exemplary Accomplished Developing Significance/Impa ct The student The student The student 10 % Identification made a correct correctly noted noted a Dissent and presentation of decision the existence of and/or the additional concerning a Dissenting significance of information that is whether there is opinion, if any, the case but needed to present a additional and accurately described same complete picture of information or described it; in an unclear the case. commentary information/com manner. which should be ments, if any, conveyed to the relate to the reader, including opinion in a information logical manner. about a Dissenting opinion; the information is conveyed in a clear and accurate manner. Impact on society, if any, is conveyed. Writing Standards 10 % Demonstrate the correct usage of grammar, spelling, and writing techniques. Exemplary Accomplished Developing Beginning Did not attempt The student The required failed to present element does necessary not exist in the information brief or is about a Dissent unrecognizable or about the in the brief. significance of the case or presented same in an inaccurate or misleading manner. Beginning Student Student Paper contains Paper contains demonstrates demonstrates several numerous consistent and consistent and grammatical, grammatical, correct use of correct use of punctuation, punctuation, the rules of the rules of and/or spelling and spelling grammar usage, grammar usage, errors. errors. punctuation, and punctuation and Language lacks Language uses spelling. spelling, with a clarity or jargon or Language is few minor includes some conversational clear and errors. Headings use of jargon tone; OR brief precise. are used and and /or fails to use Sentences correspond to conversational Headings. display the required tone. Some consistently elements of the headings are strong, varied case brief. missing or fail structure. to correspond Headings are to the required used and elements of the correspond to case brief. the required elements of the case brief. Did not attempt The required element does not exist in the brief or is unrecognizable in the brief. Citation of Sources Exemplary Accomplished Developing Beginning Did not attempt 10 % Proper usage Student Student quotes, Student quotes, Student quotes, The required of the BlueBook accurately paraphrases and paraphrases and paraphrases and element does citation style. quotes, cites information cites cites not exist in the paraphrases, and correctly and information information but brief or is cites informationconsistently, mostly may have many unrecognizable in ways that are using correctly and errors of use the in the brief. true to the information in consistently, in information out original context ways that are ways that are of context. with no errors. true to the largely true to original context, the original with minimal context. errors