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"Knowledge is free for those who seek..." This book is made available by Tashfin.
For Pam and Laurie
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011. Cracked and Scrubbed by Tashfin in 2013. Happy Reading!
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viii Contents
2. Where Do Purposes Come From? 40
a. Legislative intent 40
b. Policy analysis 42
3. Purposes as a Source of Statutory Ambiguity 43
a. Competing purposes 43
b. The pattern of conflict: Broad vs. narrow purposes 46
4. Language as a Source of Statutory Ambiguity: Competing Meanings 48
B. Fact Situations To Watch For 52
Chapter 5 Forks in the Law: Competing
Interpretations of Caselaw 55
A. Desperately Seeking Similarity: When To
Follow Precedent 56
B. Searching for Distinctions that Make a Difference 57
C. Patterns of Ambiguity To Watch For 59
D. Dealing with Multiple Cases 64
Chapter 6 Forks in the Facts 67
A. How Law Creates Forks in the Facts:
Why Categories Matter 68
1. Rule vs. Exception 70
2. Statutory Boundaries 71
3. Sequential Categories 71
4. Crossing the Line 72
5. Categories as Elements of Legal Rules:
Running the Gantlet 73
6. Open-Ended or "Evaluative" Categories 74
B. Why Categories Don't Settle Things: Sources
of Factual Conflict and Ambiguity 75
1. Facts on Both Sides of the Category 75
2. Differing Standpoints 76
3. Differing Time-Frames 77
4. Differing Ways To Make Sense of the Facts 79 a. Take things one at a time or view them
Contents ix
b. Lenses of generality 80
c. Linguistic ambiguity 82
Chapter 7 Taking It to the Next Level: "Twin Forks" 87
A. Linked Forks: One Good Fork Deserves Another 90
B. Reciprocal Forks: Back-and-Forth between Lav/
and Facts 92
C. Concurrent Forks: Straddling a Statutory Boundary 94
D. Proliferating Forks: Competing Domains 96
E. Hidden Forks: Dodging the Statute 100
F. Background vs. Foreground: Variations on the
Twin Forks Theme 102
Part n Strategies for Issue-Spotting, Analysis, and Argument: Heart, Brains, and Courage
Chapter 8 Taking Exams Seriously: A World Full
of Wicked "Whiches" 109
Chapter 9 How To Spot Issues, and What To Do
Once You Spot Them 117
A. Issue-Spotting 119
1. What the Course Will Tell You If You Listen 119
a. Classnotes and outlines 119
b. Themes and "issues" 122
c. Old exams and study groups ............

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