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FIRAC Acronym - correct answer ✔✔F Ivan Right After Class
FIRAC stands for - correct answer ✔✔Facts, Issues, Rule of Law, Analysis, and Conclusion
F FIRAC: - correct answer ✔✔Facts
What happened? Keep it simple (nothing superfluous)
What are the different kinds of facts? - correct answer ✔✔1. Story telling
2. Legally dispositive
What do you always state in case brief? - correct answer ✔✔1. Who is suing whom under what cause of
action for what remedy
2. Clearly state which party is plaintiff and which is defendant
3. Procedural Posture
What is procedural posture? - correct answer ✔✔brief summary of what happened in lower court
history of case
The plaintiff brought a claim for breach of an alleged warranty. The trial court fond for the plaintiff. The
defendant successfully moved to set aside the verdict for excessive damages and plaintiff appealed.
Story-Telling Facts - correct answer ✔✔Hawkins (the plaintiff) had substantial scar tissue on his hand
from an incident with electrical wire...Defendant removed much of it from plaintiff's palm and grafted
skin from the plaintiff's chest onto his hand, ultimately leaving plaintiff's palm "hairy."
Legally-Dispositive Facts - correct answer ✔✔dispositive facts clearly settle an issue.
the fact that the defendant in a personal injury case ran a red light and hit the plaintiff with their car
settles the question of the defendant's negligence.
, Dr. McGee (the defendant) repeatedly solicited plaintiff's father to perform an operation as an
opportunity to "experiment on skin grafting."...The defendant promised the plaintiff that he would only
be in the hospital "three or four days" and then he can "go back to work with a good hand." Defendant
"guarantee[d] to make the hand a hundred per cent perfect or a hundred per cent good hand."
Much of what you need to get out of reading the case... - correct answer ✔✔Is NOT found in express
words of the case
Legal rules are - correct answer ✔✔tools to solve problems (have many uses)
The answer to all legal questions is - correct answer ✔✔IT DEPENDS
What should you include in your Facts section of FIRAC? - correct answer ✔✔P N.F. L.D P.P. D C&R
Please Never Forget Large Doses PP Dave Consumed & Replaced
1. Who is the plaintiff?
2. Narrative facts
3. Legally dispositive facts
4. Procedural posture
5. Who is the defendant?
6. The cause of action and the remedy sought.
What should you include in your Issue section of FIRAC? - correct answer ✔✔The issue decided in the
opinion
describes the question the court is deciding in the opinion
Can have multiple issues for single case
Single sentence per issue
Include dispositive facts and key words/key legal language
how does issue fit in
FIRAC Acronym - correct answer ✔✔F Ivan Right After Class
FIRAC stands for - correct answer ✔✔Facts, Issues, Rule of Law, Analysis, and Conclusion
F FIRAC: - correct answer ✔✔Facts
What happened? Keep it simple (nothing superfluous)
What are the different kinds of facts? - correct answer ✔✔1. Story telling
2. Legally dispositive
What do you always state in case brief? - correct answer ✔✔1. Who is suing whom under what cause of
action for what remedy
2. Clearly state which party is plaintiff and which is defendant
3. Procedural Posture
What is procedural posture? - correct answer ✔✔brief summary of what happened in lower court
history of case
The plaintiff brought a claim for breach of an alleged warranty. The trial court fond for the plaintiff. The
defendant successfully moved to set aside the verdict for excessive damages and plaintiff appealed.
Story-Telling Facts - correct answer ✔✔Hawkins (the plaintiff) had substantial scar tissue on his hand
from an incident with electrical wire...Defendant removed much of it from plaintiff's palm and grafted
skin from the plaintiff's chest onto his hand, ultimately leaving plaintiff's palm "hairy."
Legally-Dispositive Facts - correct answer ✔✔dispositive facts clearly settle an issue.
the fact that the defendant in a personal injury case ran a red light and hit the plaintiff with their car
settles the question of the defendant's negligence.
, Dr. McGee (the defendant) repeatedly solicited plaintiff's father to perform an operation as an
opportunity to "experiment on skin grafting."...The defendant promised the plaintiff that he would only
be in the hospital "three or four days" and then he can "go back to work with a good hand." Defendant
"guarantee[d] to make the hand a hundred per cent perfect or a hundred per cent good hand."
Much of what you need to get out of reading the case... - correct answer ✔✔Is NOT found in express
words of the case
Legal rules are - correct answer ✔✔tools to solve problems (have many uses)
The answer to all legal questions is - correct answer ✔✔IT DEPENDS
What should you include in your Facts section of FIRAC? - correct answer ✔✔P N.F. L.D P.P. D C&R
Please Never Forget Large Doses PP Dave Consumed & Replaced
1. Who is the plaintiff?
2. Narrative facts
3. Legally dispositive facts
4. Procedural posture
5. Who is the defendant?
6. The cause of action and the remedy sought.
What should you include in your Issue section of FIRAC? - correct answer ✔✔The issue decided in the
opinion
describes the question the court is deciding in the opinion
Can have multiple issues for single case
Single sentence per issue
Include dispositive facts and key words/key legal language
how does issue fit in
