Abstract:Permission is hereby granted to use this record and the accompanying brief in classroom instruction or for other scholarly undertakings. This record is part of a project studying the relationship of narrative reasoning to rule-based reasoning. I analyze the narrative element of the brief written for this mock case in my article The Plot Thickens: The Appellate Brief as Story.
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