Casenote Legal Briefs for Torts, Keyed to Franklin, Rabin, Green, Geistfeld, and Engstrom, Tenth Edition

• ISBN: 9781543841435

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• Description

  Casenote Legal Briefs for Torts, Keyed to Courses Using Franklin, Rabin, Green, Geistfeld, and Engstrom’s: Tort Law and Alternatives: Cases and Materials, Tenth Edition, is designed to help you save time when briefing assigned cases. Organized under convenient headings, they show you how to abstract the basic facts and holdings from the text of the actual opinions handed down by the courts. Used as part of a rigorous study regimen, they can help you spend more time analyzing and critiquing points of law than on copying bits and pieces of judicial opinions into your notebook or outline.

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  New to this Edition:

  The following cases (new in the Tenth Edition of the casebook) are included in the Casenotes:

  • Behrendt v. Gulf Underwriters Insurance Co.
  • Diaz v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  • Southern California Gas Co. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County
  • Torres v. El Paso Electric Co.
  • Butterfield v. Forrester
  • Davies v. Mann
  • Centocor v. Hamilton

  Students will benefit from:

  Casenote® Legal Briefs break down the major cases in your casebook into a succinct, readable, and uncluttered format that details:

  • the nature of the case,
  • the issue,
  • a summary of the facts,
  • the rule of law,
  • detailed facts
  • the holding and decision, including dissents and concurrences, and
  • a brief comment or analysis of the case.

  Additional Materials Include:

  • Quicknotes following each case define the legal terms used in the brief.
  • A Glossary in the back of the book lists and defines Latin words and phrases commonly found in the language of the law.
  • Quick Reference Rules of Law pages open every chapter and list the rules of law that apply in each case in that chapter.
  • How to Brief a Case provides step-by-step instructions on how to format, organize, and write your own case brief with the greatest efficiency.
  • A fold-out Quick Course Outline highlights the main topics of the course.