Creating appellate brief/Chemo vs Matthew.
Description For this project, you will draft an appellate brief to the State of Florida appellate court. In this brief, you will present the issue(s) to be resolved in this fact pattern. You will conduct legal research. While you are welcome to proceed at your own pace, certain benchmarks have been provided throughout the course of the semester to keep you on track to providing a fully written and edit final paper in a timely fashion. As such, your first thing to do is to read the Chemo vs Matthew after this paper. STEP 1: Run a Google search to find the Wikipedia (or any other secondary source) definition of an employee and independent contractor STEP 2: Run a Google search to find the Wikipedia (or any other secondary source) definition of the term vicarious liability. Next, determine what it means for an agent “to act within the scope of their employment” – STEP 3: Conduct your legal research. Find several supporting cases, statutes or administrative regulations that may help support your client’s position and submit I will be representing the side of the appellant (Chemco). Second paper will provide the events STEP 4: Draft outline to your arguments, cover page, issue(s) to be presented on appeal and statement of facts. View the following attachment for an example of sample brief. Remember, however, that your Court is sitting in Florida. STEP 5: Draft the argument section of your paper. Here you are utilizing the research you have found to fully answer the issues on appeal Appellate Brief Rubric (100 pts): 15 pts – Grammar/ Punctuation and Spelling 15 pts – APA Formatting and References 70 pts – Content Knowledge There is a maximum limit of 20 pages. There is no required minimum; h however, as the “Argument Section” provides the content knowledge in this exercise, it is important to provide full arguments and answer(s) to the question(s) presented. We will be doing 7 pages The main substance of the paper, and what will be graded, is the argument section. This is where you will use the cases/legal precedent, statutes, etc. and analyze them in light of the facts of our case and present an opinion as to why the court should rule in favor of your client.