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Making your point at different levels

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For my appellate brief writing class, I choose a pending SCOTUS case for the students to write a brief for. This past year, I chose two trademark cases: Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts v. Goldsmith and Jack Daniel’s Properties,…

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