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Supreme Court Case Case Brief Rubric 
Supreme Court Case Case Brief Rubric
Supreme Court Case with educational impact
Rubric Code: KXB4X75
By nrlee18
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Subject: Law  
Type: Project  
Grade Levels: 9-12

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  Poor

6 pts

Fair

7 pts

Average

8 pts

Good

9 pts

Exemplary

10 pts

Case Background
0 pts

Describe and analyze the history of the case in lower courts
Poor

Identifies, demonstrates and/or understands none of the lower court trials that preceded the Supreme Court trial
Fair

Identifies, demonstrates and/or understands few of the lower court trials that preceded the Supreme Court trial
Average

Identifies, demonstrates and/or understands some of the lower court trials that preceded the Supreme Court trial
Good

Identifies, demonstrates and/or understands most of the lower court trials that preceded the Supreme Court trial
Exemplary

Identifies, demonstrates and/or understands all of the lower court trials that preceded the Supreme Court trial
Effects of Case
0 pts

What were the effects of the case on the nation during the trial, on education or in any other area as a reult of the trial
Poor

Analysis was only provided for one of the three areas (nation, education, and other)
Fair

Marginal analysis of of the effects of ths case in two of the three areas (nation, education, and other)
Average

Somewhat thorough analysis of the effects of ths case in two of the three areas (nation, education, and other)
Good

Reasonably thorough analysis of each the effects of ths case in two of the three areas (nation, education, and other)
Exemplary

Very thorough and insightful analysis of each the effects of ths case in all three areas (nation, education, and other)
Justice Analysis
0 pts

Poor

Did not explain Justice's final recommendation
Fair

Basic, unsupoprted explanation of all the justices' final recommendations
Average

Logical explanation of all the justices' final recommendations
Good

Offered a competent explanation with some support of all the justices' final recommendations
Exemplary

Explained the decision of the court, including all nine justices concurring and dissenting votes
Writing Errors
0 pts

These errors include spelling, grammar, word usage, capitalization, sentence structure, etc.
Poor

The document is difficult to read due to errors or misspellings
Fair

Frequent compositional errors or misspellings, but the essay can be read and understood
Average

More than occasional errors or misspellings that somewhat distract from the content
Good

Occasional errors or misspellings that do not effect the meaning and content
Exemplary

Writing has few, if any, compositional errors
APA Format
0 pts

Poor

The document clearly does not comply with the basic requirments of APA format
Fair

The document shows some APA criterion
Average

The document demonstrates a basic level of APA criterion, but still contains major deficiencies
Good

The document demonstrates a solid understanding of the basic elements of APA formatting
Exemplary

APA format is followed for the entire paper, separate works cited page, correct font and spacing.






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