Assignment
Case Brief:
Research the legal case: In re Gault 387 U.S. 1 (1967), the first juvenile case in history. You can use the Internet or search on www.findlaw.com.
Juvenile Justice Administration and Delinquency 3
Read the directions on briefing a case below. Next, brief the case listed in three pages.
List the Case:
1. Judicial history
2. Facts
3. Issues,
4. Rules
5. Analysis and reasoning
6. Holding
When writing a case brief, the answers to the fallowing questions are components that create a case brief. These questions are:
- Who are the parties?
- What happened in lower courts?
- What is the legal question before this court?
- What rules (primary law) did court rely on in researching decision?
- How did court analyze the facts in light of the legal questions and rules?
- How did the court solve the dispute?
- When the answers to the questions are well known, the case brief is written.