Two Assignments

CASE

Appellate Court of Illinois,
First District, Second Division.
Leslie ROSENTHAL, Plaintiff–Appellant,v.BATTERY PARTNERS VI, L.P., a
Delaware limited partnership; and Blackstone F 12 Capital Partners
(Cayman), L.P.; Blackstone FI Offshore Capital Partners (Cayman), L.P.;
Blackstone Family Investment Partnership (Cayman) III, L.P.; Blackstone
FI Communications Partners (Cayman), L.P.; Blackstone Family
Communications Partnership (Cayman), L.P., Defendants–Appellees.
No. 1–10–0756.
March 31, 2011.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. No. 08 L 001044, Allen S. Goldberg, Judge Presiding.

Assignment 1:
Draft/Outline with detailed Discussion/Analysis section (the case above).
Instructions
Include the legal issue(s), preliminary version of the “rule” or short
answer to the extent you have been able to identify it, and a detailed
draft of your discussion section.
The discussion section should organize and structure the components of
your analysis. For example, you might have a paragraph to describe each
applicable statute, a paragraph for cases on point, one or more
paragraphs about what the scholarly secondary sources say on your issue,
and/or a paragraph about any administrative rules, regulations, codes,
or other issues that apply. Use the outline to structure and set out the
information that you have reviewed and analyzed in your research.
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Assignment 2:
Write a legal memorandum for this case (Fact, Issue(s), Brief answer, Discussion, Analysis and Conclusion.
a) White a background of the case in legal language
b) Identify the Legal Issue in this case
c) Cite the case using THE BLUEBOOK and ALWD Citation Manual.
d) Provide an objective analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of a
case, or explores the answer to a carefully worded question about a
specific aspect of the law in a particular jurisdiction (State of
Illinois).
e) Provide a synthesis and application of the cases and/or statutes that
control the question or issue. Remember that the memorandum examines
both sides of an issue, it concludes with a prediction as to the
outcome.

-Be specific and detailed. .
-City all sources in legal language (in text citation with at least 3 different sources)
-Write a clear conclusion for the case
-APA style format