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Six example sentences with brief, each labelled with its topic.
The brief ran ninety pages and cited eleven appellate decisions before it ever reached the client's own story.
Law
Outside counsel filed a brief arguing that the merger fell outside the state's reach entirely.
Business
A young lawyer's brief from 1908 filled hundreds of pages with factory statistics and only two pages of precedent.
History
The conservation group filed a brief arguing that the dam permit ignored the salmon counts from the past decade.
Environment
Twelve software companies signed a brief urging the court to rule that computer code counts as protected speech.
Technology
A group of economists submitted a brief to the court showing how the merger would raise prices in forty regional markets.
Economics
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