Indigo Posted August 6, 2014 at 11:40 PM Share Posted August 6, 2014 at 11:40 PM This is a link to a PDF designed to help new law students in their first weeks of law school. It should be useful for those of us on IC who are not comfortable with our skills in this regard. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1160925 How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students Orin S. Kerr George Washington University - Law SchoolThe GREEN BAG, An Entertaining Journal of Law, Vol 11, No. 1, p. 51, Autumn 2007 GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 414 GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 414Abstract: This essay is designed to help new law students prepare for the first few weeks of class. It explains what judicial opinions are, how they are structured, and what law students should look for when reading them. Number of Pages in PDF File: 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ming Posted August 6, 2014 at 11:54 PM Share Posted August 6, 2014 at 11:54 PM Good post Indigo. Now I can understand Skinny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Posted August 7, 2014 at 12:47 AM Author Share Posted August 7, 2014 at 12:47 AM Good post Indigo. Now I can understand Skinny!It'll help some. At least he's clearer than the actual court documents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmer Fudd Posted August 7, 2014 at 01:01 AM Share Posted August 7, 2014 at 01:01 AM Good post Indigo. Now I can understand Skinny!It'll help some. At least he's clearer than the actual court documents. You can't share that it will let people make sense of what it took some of us a very long time to learn how to understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Federal Farmer Posted August 7, 2014 at 01:04 AM Share Posted August 7, 2014 at 01:04 AM Step 1: Open the PDFStep 2: Direct eyeballs in the direction of the text... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Posted August 7, 2014 at 01:07 AM Author Share Posted August 7, 2014 at 01:07 AM Good post Indigo. Now I can understand Skinny!It'll help some. At least he's clearer than the actual court documents. You can't share that it will let people make sense of what it took some of us a very long time to learn how to understand. IIRC, at some point, the Roman Senate passed a law requiring lawyers to use plain Latin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmer Fudd Posted August 7, 2014 at 01:19 AM Share Posted August 7, 2014 at 01:19 AM ROFL.......with enough effort anything can be made impossible to understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie Posted August 7, 2014 at 02:12 AM Share Posted August 7, 2014 at 02:12 AM Thanks! I daresay that would have come in handy during my Constitutional Law class in college! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomKoz Posted August 7, 2014 at 02:35 AM Share Posted August 7, 2014 at 02:35 AM Too many still do not understand what "... shall not be infringed." means !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitter Clinger Posted August 21, 2014 at 03:36 PM Share Posted August 21, 2014 at 03:36 PM Step 1: Open the PDFStep 2: Direct eyeballs in the direction of the text...Already tried that. Didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobPistol Posted August 22, 2014 at 12:32 AM Share Posted August 22, 2014 at 12:32 AM Step 1: Open the PDFStep 2: Direct eyeballs in the direction of the text... That's only for non-Marxists. Marxists don't read legal opinions unless it promotes Marxism Then it will be read with impugnity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnyb82 Posted August 28, 2014 at 03:38 PM Share Posted August 28, 2014 at 03:38 PM How to read an opinion...for a non-attorney, heh. It's a lot of reading, precedent, knowing the standards of review and what the proper standard is in the case in question, etc. Get inside the Judge's head, that's the key. Also, knowing procedure is very important. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are not ambiguous but learning all of that is quite tedious. I would suggest a primer on con law, how the courts function, jurisdiction, etc. It took me years to teach myself all of this crap heh. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipedoc Posted September 1, 2014 at 04:23 PM Share Posted September 1, 2014 at 04:23 PM How about making this a sticky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plinkermostly Posted September 1, 2014 at 05:16 PM Share Posted September 1, 2014 at 05:16 PM (With total respect), I think we should make 'Skinny' a sticky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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