This is your First Life Skills Assignment. Life Skills Assignments are worth a combined 20% of your final grades.
You are a legal assistant for the attorney of the ABCD company. For this assignment you must conduct research and find three (3) court opinions (i.e. cases that have been previously decided by the court) that are precedent (i.e. have similar facts and issues of law) to the case below. To receive credit for this assignment, you must provide the case title and citation of each of the three (3) cases you find. In addition, must utilize the format provided below in order to brief (summarize) each of the cases that you find.
Format for Case Brief Assignment (your case brief assignment must include these sections):
1-Case Title & Citation
2-Issue (a combination of the legal question the Court is asked to decide and the key facts of the case)
3-Rule (the law that the Court identifies as applicable/binding in the case)
4-Application (the Courts application of the rule identified by the Court to the key facts and legal issue of the case)
5-Conclusion (a brief statement of the outcome of the case)