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3| Mandatory Versus Persuasive Authority:

When You Can/Should Use Persuasive

Authority

▪ Citing persuasive authority is

proper when no mandatory

authority exists

▪ Persuasive authority shows

your court how other courts

have ruled upon an issue

▪ Persuasive authority in the

form of secondary sources

are proper to cite in

new/developing areas of the

law

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