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Case Summary Rubric RSA 517

Case Brief

Assignment is to summarize the assigned case given in the course.

Rubric Code: X4A729

By BeirutBruce

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Subject: Law

Type: Assignment

Grade Levels: Graduate

Case Summary
	Outstanding 4 pts	Very Good 3 pts	Satisfactory 2 pts	Below Average 1 pts	Well Below Average 0 pts
Case name and citation	Outstanding Identifies case name, legal citation and court in the correct format with no spelling, punctuation or any other errors.	Very Good Identifies all three items, case name, citation and court but makes one or two minor errors.	Satisfactory Identifies only two of the three required items in the correct format with one minor error or identifies all three items but makes a few minor errors.	Below Average Only identifies one of the three required items.	Well Below Average Does not identify the case name, citation or court.
Key Facts	Outstanding Identifies all relevant facts and presents them in an organized, concise, chronological manner. Few extraneous facts and includes the current status of the case.	Very Good Identifies all relevant facts but does not present them in an organized, concise or chronological manner. Few extraneous facts and includes the current status of the case.	Satisfactory Fails to identify all the relevant facts but presents some of the relevant facts in an organized manner with some extraneous facts. Includes the current status of the case.	Below Average Identifies facts but most of them are extraneous facts. Missing many relevant facts. May also be missing the current status of the case.	Well Below Average Does not identify any relevant facts in the case.
Issues to be Decided	Outstanding Issue & legal question(s) correctly identified and is/are stated in the form of a question. they are concise and stands on its own if removed.	Very Good Issue & legal question(s) correctly identified and is/are stated in the form of a question, but may contain extraneous information. Not sufficiently succint and brief. Issue stands on its own if removed.	Satisfactory Issue & legal question is/are correctly identified but not stated in the form of a question and may not stand on its own.	Below Average Issue & legal question(s) is/are not completely or correctly identified. Identifies other issues, some of which are not relevant.	Well Below Average No issues identified. The issue(s) is/are the specific legal questions before the court.
Decision of the Court	Outstanding A correct re-statement of the court's answers to the legal questions posed before and they are answered in the affirmative or negative	Very Good Partially incomplete or complete answers to the legal questions posed and stated in the affirmative or negative re-statements.	Satisfactory Mostly Incomplete or partially incorrect answers to the legal questions and they are posed in affirmative or negative.	Below Average Incorrect answers to the legal questions posed and did not re-state in question in the affirmative or negtive.	Well Below Average Provided no answer to the questions posed in the issues section. The answers should have been placed in the affirmative or negative restatement
Reasoning of the Court	Outstanding Correctly identifies the court's analysis and reasoning and does so in an organized, concise and well written manner.	Very Good the reasoning of the legal question & answer contains minor weaknesses, but is basically cogent and accords with the court's reasons for ruling the way it did.	Satisfactory the summary of the legal question or answer contains major weaknesses, is absent or incoherent about why the court answered the way it did	Below Average Attempt was made to provide a summary; however it didn't relate to any legal question or answer raised by the court.	Well Below Average did not provide a summary of the court's reasoning or rationale for the answers to the legal questions. Doesn't answer why the court answered the way it did.
Spelling, Grammar, Format	Outstanding Spelling is perfect, contains no major grammatical error. Formatting is correct.	Very Good Spelling is very good with one or two minor errors, some grammatical errors but nothing which affects the understanding of what is written. Formatting is correct.	Satisfactory Several spelling errors and at least one major grammatical error. Formatting may contain mistakes.	Below Average Numerous spelling errors throughout, some grammatical erros which affect the understanding of what is written. Several formatting mistakes.	Well Below Average Riddled with spelling errors, numerous grammatical errors which make understanding what is written very difficult or impossible. No real attempt at formatting.

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