Torts
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Thurgood
Marshall
Marshall
Law in Pop Culture
100
This intentional tort occurs when someone intentionally causes harmful or offensive contact with another person.
What is battery?
100
This term refers to the legal term for an agreement between two or more parties that is enforceable by law.
What is a contract?
100
This term requires complete diversity of citizenship between plaintiffs and defendants and an amount in controversy exceeding $75,000.
What is diversity jurisdiction?
100
Q: The Bluebook is published by these prestigious law journals (name one).
What is Harvard Law Review, Columbia, Yale, or UPENN?
100
This law school, denied to Thurgood Marshall due to segregation, became a central focus of one of his early legal battles.
What is the University of Maryland School of Law?
100
This musical-turned-movie teaches you the “bend and snap” maneuver.
What is Legally Blonde?
200
This tort protects a person's right to be free from false and damaging statements made about them to a third party.
What is defamation?
200
This type of contract is formed when only one party makes a promise in exchange for an action or forbearance from the other party.
What is a unilateral contract?
200
This term requires that the defendant has sufficient ties to the forum state to justify the court’s authority over them.
What is minimum contacts?
200
This section of a book citation includes the specific page or section cited.
What is the pinpoint citation?
200
This actor played Thurgood Marshall in the 2017 biographical film, Marshall, which focused on one of the lawyer's early court cases.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
200
This Amazon original depicts a fake trial—where the main character doesn’t know it’s fake.
What is "Jury Duty"?
300
This tort involves the unlawful confinement of a person without their consent and without legal justification.
What is false imprisonment?
300
This term refers to an offer that can no longer be accepted because the offeror has withdrawn it before the offeree's acceptance.
What is revocation?
300
This rule requires federal courts sitting in diversity jurisdiction to apply state substantive law and federal procedural law.
What is the Erie Doctrine?
300
The Bluebook’s citation rules are organized into this many sections, or "rules," in the 21st edition.
What is 21?
300
Q: After his retirement in 1991, Thurgood Marshall was succeeded by this justice, who became the second African American on the Supreme Court.
Who is Clarence Thomas?
300
This police procedural franchise, largely set in New York, has a whopping seven series and even some video games.
What is "Law and Order"?
400
This tort involves a substantial, unreasonable interference with a person's use or enjoyment of their private property.
What is a private nuisance?
400
This type of contract is one where both parties have made promises, but one party's performance is conditioned upon the other party’s performance or promise.
What is a conditional contract?
400
This rule allows a party to move for dismissal on the grounds that the complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.
What is FRCP 12(b)(6)?
400
This Latin term, abbreviated as "id.," is used for repeated citations to the same authority.
What is idem?
400
Q: Before joining the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall served as the Solicitor General under this U.S. President.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
400
The revival of this detective show popularized Miranda warnings in the media after Miranda v. Arizona was decided.
What is Dragnet?
500
This Latin phrase refers to a legal doctrine that allows a court to assume negligence when certain events happen under circumstances where the defendant has exclusive control over the instrumentality causing harm, and the accident would not normally occur without negligence.
What is res ipsa loquitur?
500
This doctrine applies when one party fails to perform a major aspect of the contract, giving the other party the right to terminate the contract and seek damages.
What is a material breach?
500
This term prevents parties from re-litigating a claim that has already been decided on its merits by a competent court.
Example: A plaintiff cannot sue for breach of contract in a new lawsuit after losing a prior suit based on the same contract.
A: What is claim preclusion?
500
Rule 10.2.1(f) specifies that when multiple parties are involved in a case, this strategy is used to shorten the case name.
What is "omit all but the first party on each side"?
500
As an NAACP lawyer, Marshall argued a record number of cases before the Supreme Court, winning this many out of 32.
What is 29?
500
This rapper teamed with E-40 to make a song discussing the “law” of the streets.
Who is Yo Gotti?