Law in the Movies
One of Chadwick Boseman's last roles was playing this Supreme Court justice, the first Black American to sit on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This ABC show in its ninth season helped launch the career of prolific television writer and producer Shonda Rimes.
What is How to Get Away with Murder?
What is the Plaintiff?
This former running back took a long ride in a white Ford Bronco before being found not guilty of murdering two people in 1995.
Who is O.J. Simpson?
This California-based Major League Baseball team serves as his personal obsession from April to October.
In this 2001 classic, Reese Witherspoon played a Valley Girl who goes to Harvard Law School. Duhhhhhh.
What is Legally Blonde?
This spinoff of Breaking Bad tells the story of Albuquerque lawyer Jimmy McGill.
What is Better Call Saul?
What a person who is sued is called?
What is the defendant?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Professor Haskins' favorite Broadway musical was made into a 1984 movie starring Rick Moranis and a giant man-eating plant.
What is Little Shop of Horrors?
Matt Murdock, the blind lawyer who meets with Peter Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home, is also this Marvel superhero with a show on Netflix.
Who is Daredevil?
This legal show on Amazon Prime shares its name with a famous villain from the Old Testament.
What is Goliath?
Derived from an old French word for "wrong" or "unjust," this is the legal word describing a wrong for which a defendant should be held liable.
What is a tort?
This 2000s-era singer recently ended a decade-long court battle against her own father to win back control of her own estate.
Who is Britney Spears?
Professor Haskins has this many children
What is five?
What is Just Mercy?
Though this classic television show had numerous spinoffs--at least one of which is still on television today--its cancellation in 2010 left it just a few episodes short of Gunsmoke for the most in television history.
What is Law and Order?
The elements of this tort are duty, breach, causation, and damages.
What is negligence?
This longtime Marvel actress' lawsuit against Disney lasted about three days before the parties decided to settle and keep their dispute out of the public eye.
Who is Scarlett Johannsen?
Professor Haskins' favorite movie of all time doubles as the film debut of this bullwhip-toting archeologist.
Who is Indiana Jones?
Aunt May herself--Marisa Tomei--won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for playing the wisecracking Italian girlfriend of barely-qualified attorney Joe Pesci.
What is My Cousin Vinny?
This musically inclined television show featured a female lawyer who left her high-powered job as a New York attorney for West Covina, California to re-kindle a summer camp romance.
What is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend?
What is a misdemeanor?
This singer recently lost her bid to have a lawsuit against her dismissed over the song "Shake It Off."
Who is Taylor Swift?
If Professor Haskins had it to do all over again, he would have had a career as a ride operator on this adventurous Disneyland ride.
What is the Jungle Cruise?