legal brief Meaning of "legal brief"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case

Usage(s):

  1. And so this week we get a new legal brief from the Obama Administration in the California case, this one denuded of the execrable incest defense.
  2. On Friday, Brown's legal brief ignited a statewide debate among legal scholars, with discussion of the argument dominating law professor list-servs and e-mail lists.
  3. GOP candidate signs on to legal brief in Supreme Court case being heard Tuesday.
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