- 27 Sep, 2020
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BRIEFING CASES- THE RATIONALE SECTION
The rationale section in a case brief contains the Court’s analysis of the issue in the case. It is important to note that the analysis section of a case brief does NOT contain your own personal opinion. The analysis section is where you use your own words to explain how the Court reached their decision.
To do so, you have to start by reading what the Court said in their appellate review of the case. What factors did they Court consider? Which ones were the most important to the Court?
For this assignment, write the analysis section of your brief of the Sony v. Tenenbaum case. The minimum word requirement is 300 words. In this assignment you’ll explain, in your words your understanding of how the court reached its decision. Please take a look at the Rationale tutorial found in the tutorials folder for guidance.
Briefs are based only on the appellate opinion that you have before you. Please use only the case provided for your paper. For that reason, briefs never include references. Because you’re using the case and only the case, no citations nor references are needed.
Please remember writing structure counts so use proper sentence and paragraph structure. Please remember to use past tense verbs since the situation already occurred and you’re providing your understanding of the court’s opinion.
Attached is a grading rubric for the assignment.
Please understand why you’re completing these case briefing assignments. In any any given situation you’ll be asked to analyze that situation and based on your knowledge and the applicable guidelines, laws or company policies reached decisions. Then you have to articulate; i.e., explain why and how you reached those decisions. That is why you’re completing these assignments.
This is a link of a video from my professor explaining if you need help understanding the rationale part more.