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Professor Haskins
100

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?

100

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?

100
What a person who files a lawsuit is called.

What is the Plaintiff?

100

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?

100

This California-based Major League Baseball team serves as his personal obsession from April to October.

Who are the Los Angeles Dodgers?
200

In this 2001 classic, Reese Witherspoon played a Valley Girl who goes to Harvard Law School.  Duhhhhhh.

What is Legally Blonde?

200

This spinoff of Breaking Bad tells the story of Albuquerque lawyer Jimmy McGill. 

What is Better Call Saul?

200

What a person who is sued is called?

What is the defendant?

200
The published decision in this seminal Supreme Court case ordered that schools must be desegregated with "all deliberate speed." 

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

200

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?

300

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?

300

This legal show on Amazon Prime shares its name with a famous villain from the Old Testament.

What is Goliath?

300

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?

300

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?

300

Professor Haskins has this many children

What is five?

400
Michael B. Jordan plays civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson in this 2019 film about an innocent man convicted of the death penalty.

What is Just Mercy?

400

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?

400

The elements of this tort are duty, breach, causation, and damages.

What is negligence?

400

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?

400

Professor Haskins' favorite movie of all time doubles as the film debut of this bullwhip-toting archeologist.

Who is Indiana Jones?

500

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?

500

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?

500
The word that describes a criminal wrong for which the penalty is either a fine or a prison sentence of less than a year.

What is a misdemeanor?

500

This singer recently lost her bid to have a lawsuit against her dismissed over the song "Shake It Off." 

Who is Taylor Swift?

500

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?