Sentences with phrase «read appellate opinions»

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Noonan wrote a dissent from the appellate court's opinion that the firm could not require its employees to attend company prayer services, even though the owners allowed them to sleep, read, or otherwise ignore the service so long as they were present.

The chapter on appellate opinion drafting explains the different types of opinions and their structures, their purposes and audiences, the writing process, and ends with a checklist, reading list, and samples.

Their independent variable was readability, as measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score calculated by Microsoft Word.127 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion (present or absent), and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.

Currently, Google Scholar allows you to search and read published opinions of US state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950, US federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts since...

If you occasionally read opinions and want to know what upsets appellate justices, this one is in the must - read category, if not also for the more casual style of writing that's coming out of this District.»

So far, only three published studies have analyzed the association between brief readability and case outcome, 50 and no studies have analyzed that association in the trial courts, where most lawyers practice.51 Long and Christensen sampled 882 appellate briefs from the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and state supreme courts.52 Their dependent variable was the outcome of the appeal (affirmed or reversed), while their independent variable was readability measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score as calculated by Microsoft Word.53 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion, and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.54 For United States Supreme Court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for constitutional issue, criminal or civil case, presence of a dissenting opinion, and opinion readability.55 They found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.56

We have been teaching those who will practice law by asking them to read and discuss appellate opinions.

There are a wide variety of courts — state and federal, trial and appellate, specialty — and the work can vary widely as well, but typically, clerks read briefs, attend court proceedings, write bench memoranda analyzing parties» arguments, advise the judge on the disposition of a case, and draft opinions.

Currently, Google Scholar allows you to search and read published opinions of US state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950, US federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts since 1923 and US Supreme Court cases since 1791.

To read an earlier Letter of the Law summary of the appellate court opinion in this case, click here.