8.4.8 RELEVANT ENACTED LAW
Rule 24.1(f) requires the attorney to set out— “verbatim with appropriate citation” — the constitutional provisions, treaties, statutes, regulations, and ordinances (in that order) at issue in the case.
Thus, this section should include only those statutes or other enacted laws whose language or application is in controversy. This section should not be used to reprint any statute cited in the brief. Rather, you should include statutes or other enacted laws only if you are asking the court to interpret or apply them (or not to apply them) in this case. Label this element according to whatever it happens to contain, e.g., “Relevant Constitutional Provisions” or “Relevant Statutes” or “Relevant Constitutional and Regulatory Provisions.”If only one paragraph of a lengthy statute is in controversy, you can quote only the pertinent part, but be generous: Do not quote merely the sentence at issue. In general, when excerpting enacted law in a section of this type, you should quote at least a paragraph, and be sure to include introductory material that provides sufficient context (e.g., “Section 125 defines ‘stevedore,’ and provides in pertinent part:...”).
If printing the entire text of the relevant provisions would take up too much space (more than a page), simply include the citations here and explain that the full text is reprinted in an appendix.15