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  2. Memorandum opinion - Wikipedia

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    Under United States legal practice, a memorandum opinion is usually unpublished and cannot be cited as precedent. It is formally defined as: "[a] unanimous appellate opinion that succinctly states the decision of the court; an opinion that briefly reports the court's conclusion, usu. without elaboration because the decision follows a well-established legal principle or does not relate to any ...

  3. Legal opinion - Wikipedia

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    Legal opinion is a key point in law. In law, a legal opinion is in certain jurisdictions a written explanation by a judge or group of judges that accompanies an order or ruling in a case, laying out the rationale and legal principles for the ruling.

  4. Judicial opinion - Wikipedia

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    A judicial opinion is a form of legal opinion written by a judge or a judicial panel in the course of resolving a legal dispute, providing the decision reached to resolve the dispute, and usually indicating the facts which led to the dispute and an analysis of the law used to arrive at the decision.

  5. Non-publication of legal opinions in the United States

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    An unpublished opinion is a decision of a court that is not available for citation as precedent because the court deems the case to have insufficient precedential value. In the system of common law, each judicial decision becomes part of the body of law used in future decisions. However, some courts reserve certain decisions, leaving them ...

  6. Legal writing - Wikipedia

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    The legal memorandum is the most common type of predictive legal analysis; it may include the client letter or legal opinion. The legal memorandum predicts the outcome of a legal question by analyzing the authorities governing the question and the relevant facts that gave rise to the legal question.

  7. Some US officials say in internal memo Israel may be ... - AOL

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    The National Security Memorandum was issued in early February after Democratic lawmakers began questioning whether Israel was abiding by international law. The memorandum imposed no new legal ...

  8. Per curiam decision - Wikipedia

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    In law, a per curiam decision or opinion (sometimes called an unsigned opinion) is one that is not authored by or attributed to a specific judge, but rather ascribed to the entire court or panel of judges who heard the case. [1] The term per curiam is Latin for ' by the court '. [2]

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    A yearlong HuffPost investigation into the heroin treatment industry.