First Year Law by Gypsy

Champion(s):

VenguswamyK
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi


Runner(s)-Up:

Vintsanity
First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

Crow-T-Robot
No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.


Quiz Description

Do you recognize Osborn v. Bank of the United States or Byrne v. Boadle? Then you probably went to law school, as I've learned that famous court cases in the real world are very different than "famous" court cases in law school. Here are some of the cases likely taught in the first semester of the first year of every law school (Civil Procedure, Torts, and Contracts). You don't have to give me the whole case name; just one party will do.

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Questions:

This 1891 case is used to illustrate the "Eggshell skull" rule. "The intention to do harm is the essence of an assault" and "If the intended act is unlawful, the intention to commit it must necessarily be unlawful." Sure, but it was just a kid who kicked another kid in the leg. He didn't know there was a preexisting injury.

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Vosburg v. Putney

This 1928 case is used to illustrate proximate causation. The facts are strange. A woman was waiting on a train platform an was hit by a scale that fell over when a passenger boarding a train on a different track dropped a package of fireworks that exploded. And this somehow gave her a stammer.

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Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.

A case against John Ashcroft by a Guantanamo detainee and a an anti-trust case involving Bell Atlantic Corp. are often referred to by what portmanteau "Twiqbal." Name the other party of either case.

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Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal

This 1845 case from Alabama involved a man who wrote to his his sister-in-law promising to provide a house for her if she would agree to move onto his property. Then he kicked her out two years later. The Court said it was not a valid contract because it lacked consideration.

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Kirksey v. Kirksey

If I learned anything in law school, it's that it's dangerous to travel by boat. Two cases are "famous" for illustrating private necessity. One was in Minnesota in 1910 (Defendant damaged Plaintiff's dock by fastening his boat to it in a storm) and one was in Vermont in 1908 (Plaintiff moored his boat to Defendant's dock in a storm. Defendant untied it, causing damage). I always got these two confused. Name either one.

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Vincent v. Lake Erie Transp. Co., Ploof v. Putnam

A1863 case from England involved a guy getting hit on the head with a flour barrel. Two people saw him get hit, but no one saw what actually caused the barrel to drop. Which case was the first time the Court applied res ipsa loquitur, which means, "the thing speaks for itself?"

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Byrne v. Boadle

This 1958 case dealing with transferred intent showed that you shouldn't throw erasers. You could put an eye out.

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Keel v. Hainlein

The plaintiff in this 1917 New York case was a Titanic survivor who had a fashion business that became the first global couture brand. Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo's opinion let it be known what he thought of her day job.

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Wood v. Lucy, Lady-Duff Gordon

This opinion in this 1965 D.C. case, written by Judge J. Skelly Wright, is used to describe unconscionability as a defense to enforcement of contracts. It involved a furniture store with harsh repossession rules.

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Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co

This 1892 English case held an advertisement to be a unilateral contract. Who knows? Maybe phenol really did cure the flu.

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Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.

This 1945 case defined personal jurisdiction regarding a state court’s ability to haul out-of-state defendants in to face a lawsuit. It established the “minimum contacts” rule, as long as jurisdiction “will not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.”

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International Shoe Co. v. Washington

This 1988 case established that public figures care pretty much fair game when it comes to parody: "Outrageousness in the area of political and social discourse has an inherent subjectiveness about it which would allow a jury to impose liability on the basis of the jurors' tastes or views."

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Hustler v. Falwell