Please pick any court case from Chapters $7-9-$ not already briefed $-$ and apply the IRAC method to examine the case. The Week $7$ Case Analysis is identical to Week $7=$ this is a "critical thinking exercise", so part of the challenge $($and the learning objective" is to identify a case $($that has $*$not$*$ already been summarized in the textbook$)$ and research the actual court opinion on the Internet $($e$.$g$.,$ try Googling the citation$),$ then distill the court opinion into a clear and concise summary that follows the IRAC Method, e$.$g$.,$ Issue, Rule, Analysis, and Conclusion. If I provided recommendations in my feedback on your prior Case Analysis, please be sure to integrate that guidance this week.

To make this easier for you, however, I'll provide another example using a $5-$step process to ensure you cover everything. For example,

$1)$ Provide a complete citation for the case you have selected that includes Volume, Publication, Page Number, and Year, of the court case. To help you see how the case brief should look, I'll use a case that is not in the textbook:

$[$Ex$.$ Citation: Southpointe Homeowners Assn., Inc. v$.$ Segarra, $763$ So$.2$d $1186($Fla$.4$th DCA $2000)]$

$2)$ Clearly label the $$Issues$$ section that presents the legal issue in the form of a question, e$.$g$.,$ there should be a question mark at the end. The key to this one is simply finding what the court$$s decision was and then working backward, e$.$g$.,$ if the court found that the defendant was negligent while driving their car, then the Issue would be $$Was the defendant negligent while driving their car and, if negligent, were there any valid defenses available to defendant?

$[$Here$\text{'}$s an example "Issue" using the "Southpointe" case noted above: Issue: Is a homeowners$$ association entitled to attorney$$s fees and costs beyond those necessitated by the filing of a lawsuit against the homeowner for unpaid maintenance fees and dues, where the homeowner was attempting to pay the amount owed and the requested fees were unreasonable?$]$

$3)$ Clearly label the Rule of Law $($statute$)-$ this is simply the actual federal or state statute the court used to make their decision, e$.$g$.,$ not a doctrine or general principle $-$ there should be "numbers" included reflecting the specific Title$/$Chapter AND section$/$provision of the statute, and other labeling that distinguishes it as a federal or state statute.

$[$Ex$.$ Rule of Law: According to Maine statute Chapter $10123,$ "attorneys' fees are not permitted beyond unpaid maintenance fees and dues".$]$

$4)$ Clearly label the $$Analysis$$ section where you explain $-$ in your own words $-$ the Rule of Law and how the facts of the case are consistent with the Rule of Law.

$[$Ex$.$ Analysis: Consistent with Maine statute Chapter $10123,$ a homeowners$$ association is not entitled to attorney$$s fees and costs beyond those necessitated by the filing of a lawsuit against the homeowner for unpaid maintenance fees and dues, where the homeowner was attempting to pay the amount owed and the requested fees were unreasonable.$]$

$5)$ Clearly label the $$Conclusion$$ and the key to finding this one is noting where the court explained if the court decision was $$affirmed$$ or $$reversed$$ or $$remanded$.$

$[$Ex$.$ Conclusion: The course reversed the judgment, and made the homeowners$$ association pay back the extra attorney$$s because they were not reasonable under the law.$]$

$[$Note: the Final Exam also includes mini$-$briefing exercises where you are provided a court case opinion and expected to apply IRAC correctly, so please consider these $4$ Case Briefs throughout the course as part of your exam preparation$]$

Important: the points are for your interpretation of the case in your own words $=$ you cannot use the "Case #$.$#$"$ examples because they are already "briefed", but any other case identified between chapters $7-9$ is fine. If you have difficulty finding a case, however, then it means you may have been missing important content throughout each chapter $=$ the footnotes that are on most pages in the text usually list several cases, so there are usually more than a hundred cases for you to choose from if you take the time to carefully read through all of the resources provided.

Helpful hint $=$ if the VeraCite Plagiarism Checking Software gives you a score of more than $25\%$ on the Issue, Analysis, and Conclusion, combined $-$ then you are not providing the analysis in your own words, which defeats the purpose of the exercise. In other words, the Citation and Rule of Law are NOT factored in the $25\%$ maximum because they are not "analysis" or "interpretation", but simply a verbatim copy of the published source and federal$/$state statute$($s$)$ that only require correctly identifying them and copying them into the IRAC format. Remember $-$ the goal is to provide your interpretation of the court opinion $-$ not someone else's interpretation.

Another Helpful Hint $=$ although the textbook usually identifies a single $(1)$ aspect of a court case, there are often more than $1(2+)$ legal Iss