Facts, not Fiction
These facts are also known as outcome-determinative facts.
What are legally significant facts? (critical facts)
One may say you are using this organizational scheme when creating a timetable of events in your Statement of the Case
What is chronological?
It's the language Diaz spoke at home.
What is Spanish?
These facts rely on the persuasion mode of pathos.
What are emotional facts?
The opening paragraph of the Facts section should provide this for the reader.
What is context? (parties and crux of the conflict)
This term is often used to describe language in law-related materials.
What is legalese?
These facts describe the conflict between the parties up to the point the case entered the legal system
What are background facts?
Some call them signposts; others call them these.
What are point headings?
It's what courts give prison officials in cases involving restrictions of inmates' constitutional rights.
What is deference?
These facts describe what happened once the case entered the court system
What are procedural facts?
To highlight favorable facts, put them in these positions.
What are "positions of emphasis"?
Subtle choices of language can make your facts more compelling. Choosing vivid details, for example, helps the judge ___________ what happened.
What is visualize?
If they are not in the __________, then these facts should not be included in the Statement of the Case.
What is the record?
It's a way to highlight favorable facts by giving them more of this term of art.
What is airtime?
It's the term used to describe the major player in a story. It's the "good guy."
What is a protagonist?