ENR 4400 Law & Legal Process Exam 1
What are the legal building blocks? - correct answer ✔- Statutes
- Rules/Regulations
- Case law/Common law
Who passes Statutes? - correct answer ✔legislature
What is an example of a statute? - correct answer ✔Clean water act
Who creates Rules/Regulations? - correct answer ✔Administrative agencies
What is Case law/Common law? - correct answer ✔Made up of court
decisions, written by elected or appointed judges, and it interprets statutes
and rules
What is a trial court? - correct answer ✔- A single judge, deciding on any
legal issue
- judge or jury decide factual issues and how they apply to law
- decisions issued after trial presenting evidence
What is an appellate court? - correct answer ✔- A panel of judges
- Review what have been done by lower courts (or trial court)
- decision is issued after written briefs/oral arguments by lawyers
- THERE ARE NO witnesses or new facts brought into the case
, What is the case name in the following: Rapanos v. U.S., 547 U.S. 715 (2006)
- correct answer ✔Rapanos v. U.S.
What does the case name state? - correct answer ✔The plaintiff versus
Defendant (at the trial level)
The Appellee vs. Appellant (at the appellate level)
What section is the official reporter in the following: Rapanos v. U.S., 547 U.S.
715 (2006) - correct answer ✔547 U.S. 715
What section is the year the decision was made in the following: Rapanos v.
U.S., 547 U.S. 715 (2006) - correct answer ✔(2006)
What is a decision - correct answer ✔Final Ruling of a court, either on a
major issue or aspect of the case or the case as a whole
Main components of a decision - correct answer ✔- Caption
- Syllabus (sometimes)
- Decision
- Concurrence (sometimes on appeal)
- Dissent (sometimes on appeal)
Appellate Concurrence - correct answer ✔they agree with the outcomes, but
not the reasoning
Appellate Dissnet - correct answer ✔they don't agree with the outcome
What is IRAC? - correct answer ✔Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion
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