Prepare and submit a Case Brief on Harris v. Forklift Sys., Inc., 510 U.S. 17 (1993) by 11 PM on January 21, 2022.
You can google the case or locate it here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1168.ZO.html (Links to an external site.)
Follow this format to prepare the Case Brief:
Supplemental information for the Case Brief:
Justices Scalia and Ginsberg did write concurring opinions. You need not include that in your case brief. (If you did already, it is not wrong to do so. However, it is not required.)
A petition for writ of certiorari is the mechanism by which a party asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court decision. When the U.S. Supreme Court grants the writ of certiorari, the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review a lower court decision.
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals is the federal, intermediate appellate court in the states of Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.
In the District Court, which is the trial court, there is a Judge. The Judge is appointed for life. The Judge, however, has an assistant judge to help with overload on schedule, discovery and some hearings. That person is not appointed for life. That judge is called a Magistrate Judge. You will see references to a Magistrate. For your purposes, just think of that term as referring to the trial court level judge.
Remember reference to District Court is the trial court. Reference to the Circuit is the intermediate appellate court.
Remember that remand is to send something back.
