Four-page court brief
Court opposition brief
A fictional New York museum opposes a lender's motion about a loaned clock's conservation trip. The document uses a conventional filing layout and cites real case law.
Illustrative — not filed. The case and record are fictional. This is not legal advice.
Highlighted features
Page number in the top margin
@page sets letter paper and one-inch margins; a top-right margin box adds counter(page) above the filing text.
Widow, orphan, and heading-break controls
orphans and widows require at least two body-text lines together, while break-after: avoid keeps section headings with the next paragraph.
Separate word-count certificate and counting helper
break-before: page starts the certificate on its own sheet; count_words.py in the source ZIP counts the marked text.
The argument
This fictional Supreme Court, New York County submission opposes a lender's motion for a declaration about moving a museum's loaned station clock to an off-site conservator. The parties, agreement, index number, and record references are illustrative. The legal authorities are real: Alvarez v Prospect Hospital states the summary-judgment burden; Beal Savings Bank v Sommer directs courts to read the agreement as a whole; Vermont Teddy Bear Co. v 538 Madison Realty Co. cautions against adding terms to clear language; and Donohue v Cuomo explains ambiguity and when evidence outside the text may be considered. None concerns a museum loan.
The brief spans three pages, followed by a separate word-count certificate page. It is an illustrative document, not a filed court paper or legal advice.
How the layout works
The stylesheet defines US Letter paper and one-inch margins with @page. A top-right margin box uses counter(page) for page numbers. Body paragraphs set orphans: 2 and widows: 2; argument headings use break-after: avoid to stay with the following text. Local Source Serif 4 is loaded through @font-face for the double-spaced body text. The court caption uses Flexbox to align the parties with the case number.
An explicit break-before: page starts the word-count certificate as its own sheet. The source ZIP also includes count_words.py, which counts the text marked for certification, along with the font license.
Generate the PDF
Extract the source ZIP. Keep opposition.html, opposition.css, count_words.py, and fonts/ together, then run from that directory.
precisionpdf opposition.html opposition.pdffrom precisionpdf import HTML
HTML(filename="opposition.html").write_pdf("opposition.pdf")