Individual Case. Business law course
United States v. Morrison and the civil rights remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: a civil rights law struck down in the name of federalism
Full case

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Course: Business Law

Individual Case

The case paper is described in Chapter 5 Case 5-1 and based on the Christy Brzonkala v. Antonio J. Morrison et al., 120 S. Ct. 1740 (2000) (full case is also available on-line through our Library’s Westlaw database). The assignment has two parts:

Part One: Case brief use the 5 elements to brief this case as outlined in “How to Brief a Case”:

1. Case name and citation

2. Facts

3. Issue

4. Ruling

5. Reasons

Part Two: Discussion questions answer both questions:

1. Explain whether you find the reasoning of the majority or minority opinion [of the Supreme Court] more persuasive. Why?

2. Identify which stakeholders (who) would primarily benefit under the majority decision and which stakeholders (who) benefit under the minority decision. Why?

Note: Assignments deemed plagiarized (from solution manuals, other student’s answers, etc.) will be given a grade of ZERO. To avoid this, use your own thoughts and words . If using material from the text or other sources, please cite the material and put the passage in quotation marks (“ ”). Please use a word document (no longer than 5 pages).

Grading Rubric

Requirement

Meets Expectations (10-15 points)

Does Not Meet Expectation (0-9 points)

1. Case Brief

Identify each (5) elements of a brief with well written descriptions, especially the “Reason” element

Identified (5) elements of a brief but did not clearly describe all of the elements or description of elements is inappropriate

Requirement

Meets Expectations (8-10 points)

Does Not Meet Expectation (0-7 points)

2. Discussion questions (2)

Discussion of two questions is clear, complete and excellent writing style (i.e. good grammar, coherent paragraphs, etc.)

Discussion of two questions is incomplete or is inappropriate