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Moot Court Case Brief
Sommerville v. Olypmus State University
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Every year the American Moot Court Association sends out a case packet and hundreds of undergraduates across the country compete based on that fictitious case pattern. In the fictitious case pattern, are a list of real Supreme Court, District Court, and State Supreme Court cases that are used to make the arguments why either side of the case is correct or incorrect. While the majority of the competition revolves around oral advocacy, there is also a brief competition that allows for advocates to write and submit a brief that summarizes their arguments, similar to one that would be submitted to the Supreme Court. I did not submit this brief for the competition but I still completed my part of the brief to help me with my argument leading up to the national competition. This allows me to review the cases more in-depth, find quotes and other cited cases that I may have missed the first time around, and other benefits that writing gives to me over simply reading the cases.