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[Christoff Yurievich]

So I'm trying to do a brief for my Business Law class. We've already done two and I didn't do so hot on them so some assistance would be appreciated. (got our preliminary scores last night and I'm right at a 75% in the course so any help would be better than no help.)

here is the case in question:

http://allegate.net/payne-v-sunnyside.htm

and here is the brief so far:

http://allegate.net/case-brief-3.doc

thanks.

 

[levious]

"no" won't do for a holding. You're holding should be a rule that can be read on its own and applied to other similar situations.

And yes I know it makes sense in relation to your "issue."

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

what's funny is that the teacher wants the holdings to be no more than one word: yes or no. I know that it can (and probably should) be longer but that's the format he wants.

But the rest of it looked good? I understand it's a lot of reading to get the gist of the case at hand so thanks a lot for looking at it.

 

[levious]

oh, well, in that case, yeah, seemed fine to me.

One other thing, in legal writing a lot of people are anal about use of the passive voice, but depends on what your professor wants.

I hated not being able to use the passive voice. (see, can't even write three sentences without it)

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

oh. I hope I didn't do that.

Thanks for the help. This is the last one, now I just have to pass the last two tests and the final. It's hard when the test is 15 questions and covers 10 chapters.