For the brief writers out there, if there is only one overarching argument you’re making, wd you put a heading “A” to summarize it in the Arguments section of the brief without a corresponding heading “B?” I’m inclined to for road-map purposes, but my junior’s appeals professor said don’t do it. Also, MLA style guide: No internal heading level should have only one instance. For example, if you have one level 1 heading, you need to have a second level 1 heading. Don’t want to irk a picky judge.

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Def no A heading if you only have one argument. That would be silly.

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If it’s a state level judge, you’re already making a bold assumption that they’re even literate….

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Haha so true

When this occurs and the issue truly is limited to a single Argument for which there is no reasonable sub-arguments (this is rare), the intention will be to billboard this as a simple issue, keep the briefing far short of the page limits, with a typical table of contents like this:
1. Preliminary Statement or Summary of Argument, depending on what the Courts in your jurisdiction prefer or require.
2. Factual/ Procedural Background or Statement of Facts
3. Legal Standard
4. “The Court [Should/Must] [the single delineated thing you are motioning the Court to do]”
3. Conclusion

You are essentially subbing in a summary of your “ask” to the Court in place of the heading typically entitled “Argument.”

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Considered this! But there’s sub arguments, so I’ll forego the single A heading and break it out into the sub arguments

No A if there’s no B, sorry. Can you separate out a second minor idea for the end, maybe?

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Wouldn’t put A with the overarching argument, but I would probably put A, B, and C with a sentence of a sub argument in each. If it’s so short that you really only have one argument, no heading at all.

Totally hear that, which is why the subheadings work well here

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