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Supreme Court Case Study Rubric Supreme Court Case Study Rubric Supreme Court Case with impact Rubric Code: UX5495B By mcteacher03 Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Law Type: Project Grade Levels: 9-12

Case Study
	Poor F equivalent (N/A)	Fair D equivalent (N/A)	Average C equivalent (N/A)	Good B equivalent (N/A)	Exemplary A equivalent (N/A)
Meets Basic Assignment Criteria
Understands Assignment 5 pts	Poor Submission shows no basic understanding of the nature of the case study assignment 1pt	Fair Submission shows very little understanding of the nature of the case study assignment 2pts	Average Submission shows a basic, but minimal understanding of the nature of the case study assignment 3pts	Good Submission demonstrates a solid understanding of the case study assignment 4pts	Exemplary Submision demonstrates a full and clear understanding of the case study assignment 5pts
Case Information
Case Facts 10 pts Identify the case and give the basic information surrounding it	Poor Identifies & understands almost none of the basic information 2pts	Fair Identifies & understands few of the basic case facts 4pts	Average Identifies & understands some of the case facts 6pts	Good Identifies & understands most of the case facts 8pts	Exemplary Identifies & understands the case, the parties involved, the time frame, and the reason it was heard at the Supreme Court 10pts
Case Background 10 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 2pts	Fair Identifies, demonstrates and/or understands few of the lower court trials that preceded the Supreme Court trial 4pts	Average Identifies, demonstrates and/or understands some of the lower court trials that preceded the Supreme Court trial 6pts	Good Identifies, demonstrates and/or understands most of the lower court trials that preceded the Supreme Court trial 8pts	Exemplary Identifies, demonstrates and/or understands all of the lower court trials that preceded the Supreme Court trial 10pts
Effects of Case 15 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) 3pts	Fair Marginal analysis of of the effects of ths case in two of the three areas (nation, education, and other) 6pts	Average Somewhat thorough analysis of the effects of ths case in two of the three areas (nation, education, and other) 9 pts	Good Reasonably thorough analysis of each the effects of ths case in two of the three areas (nation, education, and other) 12pts	Exemplary Very thorough and insightful analysis of each the effects of ths case in all three areas (nation, education, and other) 15pts
Decisions
Decision 15 pts	Poor Did not explain the decision of the court. Did not mention the ruling or the reasoning. Only included the number of the majority and dissent. 3pts	Fair N/A	Average N/A	Good N/A	Exemplary Explained the decision of the court, including all nine justices concurring and dissenting votes. 15pts
Justice Analysis 15 pts	Poor Did not explain Justice's final recommendation 3pts	Fair Basic, unsupoprted explanation of all the justices' final recommendations 6pts	Average Logical explanation of all the justices' final recommendations 9pts	Good Offered a competent explanation with some support of all the justices' final recommendations 12pts	Exemplary Identified all possible causes or bias for each justice's final recommendation 15pts
Student Opinion on Decision 15 pts (personal reflection)	Poor Did not discuss personal opinion of case 3pts	Fair Concurred or dissented with Court's decision 6pts	Average Concurred or dissented with opinion only with student's personal opinion 9pts	Good Concurred or dissented and stated valid reasoning on student's personal decision. 12pts	Exemplary Concurred or dissented and stated valid reasoning and support on student's personal decision. 15pts
Writing Skills
Writing Errors 5 pts These errors include spelling, grammar, word usage, capitalization, sentence structure, etc.	Poor The document is clearly copied from an outside source and not the students own writing. 0pts	Fair Frequent compositional errors or misspellings, but the essay can be read and understood 2pts	Average More than occasional errors or misspellings that somewhat distract from the content 3pts	Good Occasional errors or misspellings that do not effect the meaning and content 4pts	Exemplary Writing has few, if any, compositional errors 5pts
Presentation 5 pts	Poor The overall presentation is disorganized, and students are unable to answer questions about the case or their individual assigned area of the case. 1pt	Fair The presentation is organized, but students are unable to answer questions about their assigned area or about the case. 2pts	Average The presentation is somewhat disorganized, but students can somewhat answer questions about the case and/or their assigned area. 3pts	Good The presentation is fairly well organized, and most questions were answered by a variety of students. 4pts	Exemplary The preentation is well organized and thought out. Students were able to address almost all questions presented. It is evident the understand the case. 5pts

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