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Under United States legal practice, a memorandum opinion is usually unpublished and cannot be cited as precedent.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 ...
Where the opinion is given by a foreign lawyer or foreign law firm it is usually referred to as a 'foreign legal opinion'. The latter form of opinion is sometimes made available to the public either because of public pressure (see for example Lord Goldsmith's opinion on the Iraq War , Yoo memo ), or because a general clarification of the law is ...
The January 9, 2002 memo draft. A set of legal memoranda known as the "Torture Memos" (officially the Memorandum Regarding Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside The United States) were drafted by John Yoo as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States and signed in August 2002 by Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee, head of the Office of Legal Counsel ...
The idea that unpublished opinions would be treated by courts as if they did not exist because they were relatively inaccessible to many lawyers, were thought to involve only well-established legal principles, and were otherwise unsuitable for the precedential status usually accorded to decisions of the federal appellate courts has been ...
The memo emphasizes the need for the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") to attack cartels and transnational criminal organizations, to reduce violent crime ...
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.
President Trump’s National Labor Relations Board just released its first general counsel memo — that is, the document outlining the NLRB’s priorities and legal guidance for the coming term ...
WASHINGTON − The Trump administration rescinded a memo describing a freeze Wednesday on federal grants and loans after setting off a firestorm in Congress and at least two lawsuits disputing who ...