Executive Branch
Policy directives that implement or interpret a statute, a constitutional provision, or a treaty.
What is an Executive order?
An area of authority over which a governing body has control or the geographical reach of a legislature or court.
What is Jurisdiction?
Writing a memo in which all of the cases are provided.
What is a Closed memo?
To declare the conclusion of law reached by the court.
What is to hold?
To compel observance of a law.
What is to enforce?
A subset of case law that only includes judicial decisions made by courts in the absence of enacted statute.
What is common law?
A study aid that summarizes the facts, procedure, issue, rationale, holding, and rule of a case.
What is the Case brief?
A department, division, or administration within the federal government
What is the Executive (President) Branch?
Authority created and published by one of the three branches of government.
What is Primary Authority?
A formal written enactment of a legislature that commands or prohibits something.
What is a statute or law?
Writing a memo where the student must do all of the research.
What is the open memo?
Primary authority that controls the legal issue because it comes from the jurisdiction governing the legal dispute.
What is Binding or Mandatory authority?
A document that sets out the legal arguments on appeal the initial decision.
What is the Appellate brief?
A principle in American jurisprudence that requires a court to follow its prior decisions when the prior decision addresses the same issue. It means "to stand by things decided and not disturb settle points."
What is Stare Decisis.
The discussion with the court offered in support of an appellate brief; students are often required to deliver a mock argument in a legal writing course.
What is the Oral argument?
To point out an essential difference; to prove a case cited as applicable or inapplicable.
What is to distinguish?