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The Six Moves

A screen for deciding which errors are worth briefing in federal court

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Use it as a desk-side screening aid.

The point is not to find every error. It is to decide which candidate errors can become arguments worth filing. Run each candidate through all six moves, in order.

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Scope: ordinary merits defects in the decision and administrative record. Constitutional, jurisdictional, timeliness, sentence-six, and reopening claims sit outside it. The method is national, but the answers require governing law, including circuit law.