Casenote Legal Briefs for Contracts: Keyed to Barnett and Oman

by Casenote Legal Briefs

• ISBN13: 9798894103860
• ISBN10: 8894103862
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-06-09
• Publisher: Aspen Publishing

Summary

Casenote® Legal Briefs CONTRACTS, Keyed to Courses Using Barnett and Oman’s Contracts: Cases and Doctrine, Eighth Edition, is designed to help you save time by providing the facts, black letter law, and holding and decision for the principal cases covered in your casebook. Used as part of a rigorous study regimen, Casenote Legal Briefs can help you spend more time analyzing and critiquing points of law than on copying bits and pieces of judicial opinions into your notebook or outline.

New to this Edition:
The following cases (new in the Eighth Edition of your casebook) are included in Casenote® Legal Briefs CONTRACTS, Keyed to Courses Using Barnett and Oman’s Contracts: Cases and Doctrine, Eighth Edition:

• McGee v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
• In re IBP, Inc., Shareholders Litigation
• Leonard v. PepsiCo
• Bjorkman v. Arctic Cat, Inc.
• Ragland v. IEC US Holdings, Inc.
• Rios v. State of Maryland
• Passante v. McWilliam
• Law Debenture Trust Corp. PLC v. Ukraine

Students will benefit from:
Casenote® Legal Briefs break down the major cases in your casebook into a succinct, readable, and uncluttered format that details:

• the nature of the case,
• the issue,
• a summary of the facts,
• the rule of law,
• detailed facts,
• the holding and decision, including dissents and concurrences,
• and a brief comment or analysis of the case.

Additional Materials Include:  

• Quicknotes following each case define legal terms used in the brief.
• A Glossary in the back of the book lists and defines Latin words and phrases commonly found in the language of the law.
• Quick Reference Rules of Law pages open every chapter and list the rules of law that apply in each case in that chapter.
• How to Brief a Case provides step-by-step instructions on how to format, organize, and write your own case brief with the greatest efficiency.
• A fold-out Quick Course Outline highlights the main topics of the course and can serve as the starting point for creating your own outline of this subject area.