Writing tip: Keep the main subject and verb close together.
My latest Elegant Legal Writing post diagnoses the sentence’s other flaws, including ambiguity in “carries the burden” and the nesting of a negative assertion within a positive one, and offers tips for avoiding them.
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Untangling a summary-judgment rule sentence
A close look at a sentence from a summary-judgment brief: keep subjects and verbs together, avoid needless variation, and drop irrelevant parts of rule statements.
