This is the basic format for presenting information in a memo.
What is CREACC?
100
When you are looking for cases for your memo, you want to look at cases that were decided where?
What is the same jurisdiction?
100
This tells the reader what rules the court will use in deciding a motion.
What is the Procedural Standard?
100
This is comprised of constitutions, statutes, regulations, and cases.
What is Primary Law (or Primary Sources)?
100
This is the Part of the Bluebook most used by practitioners.
What is the Blue pages?
200
This must sometimes be synthesized from relevant sources and must always be stated accurately.
What is the Rule of Law?
200
When looking for cases to use in a brief to a particular court, you want to choose cases from which courts?
What are higher courts in your jurisdiction (or courts whose decisions are binding on your court)?
200
You can add these to your Statement of Facts even though they are not alleged in the Complaint.
What are facts or allegations the plaintiff should have pleaded to state a claim, but did not plead.
200
This is comprised of law review articles, treatises, legal encyclopedias, etc.
What is secondary sources?
200
This is a very short way to refer to a prior citation of a single case.
What is Id.?
300
This is the order in which you present rules of law.
What is from broad or general to narrow or specific.
300
Name three pieces of information about the case you are looking at that will help you decide whether to use that case for your memo.
What are the jurisdiction, the issue, the analogous critical facts (JIF), the binding authority of the court ?
300
You must cite to this for every statement of fact.
What is the record?
300
The following are all components of this concept: state the research question, generate search terms, choose whether to begin with primary or secondary sources, outline research strategy.
What is a research plan?
300
You should use this in almost every citation, but definitely when quoting from a case.
What is a pincite (or a pinpoint citation)?
400
This is what you use to introduce a case explaining a rule.
What is a Hook?
400
When you have several cases that are equally good for your memo, you might want to use this one.
What is the most recent case?
400
You must include these in your Statement of Facts, even if you don't want to.
What are negative or unfavorable facts?
400
This is something you should look at when researching a statute to get an overview of how the statute is laid out.
What is the Table of Contents?
400
This is a good way to convey a lot about a case in just a phrase or a few words.
What is a parenthetical?
500
When applying a rule to the facts of your case, what words should be careful to use?
What are the exact words of the rule.
500
You will do this with unfavorable cases that you must put in your memo.
What is distinguish?
500
This is a way to minimize an unfavorable rule when writing the procedural standard in a persuasive memo.
What is "pairing" the unfavorable rule with a favorable rule by putting the unfavorable rule in a dependent clause and the favorable rule in an independent clause.
500
This secondary source provides detailed information about federal procedural rules.
What is Wright & Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure or Moore's Federal Practice.
500
This is where you look in the Bluebook to find out how to cite to cases and statutes in various jurisdictions.