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name: law-library-adversarial
description: Stress-test a US legal position with adverse-authority, red-team, supporting-authority, blue-team, moot-court, or bench-memo research grounded in retrieved primary sources.
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# Adversarial Legal Research

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## Choose the pass

- `adverse_authority`: find binding cases and governing text that materially weaken the position.
- `red_team`: construct the strongest fair opposing argument.
- `blue_team`: build the strongest supportable affirmative argument while confronting the best opposition.
- `bench_memo`: compare both sides and give a tentative disposition.

## Method

State the position in its strongest fair form and decompose it into elements, procedural gates, burdens, standards of review, remedies, and necessary facts. Search governing text first, then binding cases, then persuasive cases. For each important result, open the full text and record both the supporting language and the factual/procedural context.

For a red-team pass, seek cases rejecting the proposed rule, limiting an element, applying a contrary standard, distinguishing favorable precedent, or imposing jurisdictional, timeliness, preservation, standing, or remedy barriers. Stop at 3–5 material attack lines rather than padding the report.

For a blue-team pass, anchor each contested element in retrieved authority, prefer narrow holdings to favorable dicta, and give the most defensible response to the strongest adverse authority. Do not hide contrary law or substitute factual assumptions for record evidence.

For a bench memo, identify the governing test and 1–3 controlling authorities, present both sides at their strongest, identify decisive factual disputes, and state a tentative disposition plus what could change it.

## Output

Lead with the strongest conclusion. List controlling authority, attack/support lines with relation labels, best response or rejoinder, unsupported propositions, and confidence. Never invent symmetry: say when one side is materially stronger.