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Your Role: Legal clerk for the firm of Carter, Carter, and Drake Audience: The firm partner,
Sean C. Carter, and business owner Sean Combs. Scenario: Mr. Combs, who has been known to
have lavish parties, wants to know under what circumstances he can refuse entry of police to his
property. Your supervisor Mr. Carter asks you to summarize the Rogers v. Pendleton case
completely and also answer Mr. Combs' question in a memo. Summarize the selected case using
the following guidelines. This is to be in your words, not a cut-and-paste job. ROGERS V.
PENDLETON Jonathan ROGERS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. M.L. PENDLETON, Officer; M.G.
Vinyard, Officer, Defendants-Appellants. Argued Feb. 26, 2001. . May 04, 2001 249 F.3d 279
(4th Cir. 2001) Components of the Case Brief 1. Write the Name of the Case, and the Citation
Number. II. What happened in the case? III. Trial Court How did the case come to the trial
court? Who sued whom? What was the cause of action? Were there any motions filed in the trial
court? What were they? Did the trial court rule on the motions or the merits of the case itself?
What did the trial court decide? Was the trial court decision appealed to a higher court? IV.
Intermediate Appellate Court What statute was the intermediate court considering in the case?
What did the intermediate court decide? Name the primary precedent the intermediate court used
to make its decision? What was the reasoning for the court's decision? V. Was it a good
decision? VI. Answer Mr. Combs' question?

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