Name the Publication
Zealous Opposing Counsel
Pro Bono
In the Neighborhood
In These Times
200
This GPO publication contains federal administrative regulations compiled by subject.
What is the Code of Federal Regulations?
200
You've been served 15 interrogatories right at the outset of discovery in an S.D.N.Y. case. The rogs include some questions that are unrelated to the subject matter of the action and would only serve to embarrass your client. Opposing counsel thinks their interrogatories are still within the scope of FRCP Rule 33, so you cite this local rule to get them to withdraw their interrogatories.
What is Local Civil Rule 33.3?
200
In order to file a "Special Immigrant Juvenile Status" petition with the USCIS, you must first obtain a finding and order from this type of court.
What is a state juvenile court?
200
Your Morningside Heights apartment building is seeking to enforce its no-pets policy, so you cite this municipal law and the fact that your doorman has been greeting your golden doodle every day for the past year to get your landlord to back off.
What is N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 27-2009.1?
200
In USA v. Markin, prosecutors described an insider trading scheme in which the defendant Markin secretly gleaned information about an upcoming merger from his unknowing girlfriend, a Covington & Burling associate. According to the now-unsealed indictment filed on September 21, 2022, Markin used this emoji to refer to the scheme in his text messages with a co-conspirator.
What is 🐼?
400
This GPO publication contains volumes of federal statutes in chronological order.
What is the United States Statutes at Large?
400
On Christmas Eve, opposing counsel serves their third set of requests for production of documents in a D. Mass. case. You cite this local rule in refusing these requests.
What is Local Rule 26.1(c)?
400
You represent a Massachusetts charity that wishes to dissolve and transfer its assets to a newly formed Delaware charity. To do so, you must first get approval from this Massachusetts court.
What is the Supreme Judicial Court?
400
A Columbia alum friend heard about the recent financial aid class-action lawsuit that Columbia settled earlier this year for $24 million, and wants to know if she'll receive some of that. She was a full-time undergraduate student, a U.S. permanent resident, and received some need-based financial aid while still having to take out loans. She qualifies as a class member so long as she was a student during or after the fall semester of this year.
What is 2003?
400
After Queens resident Dietmar Detering reportedly earned hundreds of thousands of dollars reporting noise violations, NYC lawmakers recently amended this section of the New York City Administrative Code to further limit the compensation paid to citizen complainants.
What is Section 24-261?
600
This daily GPO publication contains executive orders and proclamations.
What is the Federal Register?
600
You represent a tech company being sued in SDNY, and opposing counsel has served a FRCP Rule 34 Request for the Production of Documents two weeks after serving the Complaint. They are demanding a response in no later than 30 days. You cite this rule to insist that the request was premature.
What is FRCP Rule 26(d)(2)?
600
After passing the New York bar and practicing in New York City for a year, you decide to take a job at the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation in Honolulu. You are pleased to learn you don't have to take another bar exam when you find this Rule.
What is Rule 1.16 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of the State of Hawai‘i?
600
You represent a Manhattan School of Music student who learned last year that one of their songs had been sampled without permission in a hit 2019 song by a well-known Brooklyn indie band. Their copyright infringement claim started accruing in this year.
What is 2023?
600
In the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, Microsoft recently cited this Second Circuit case involving a stock recommendations news site for its argument that the Times' state-law misappropriation claims concerning Wirecutter recommendations are preempted by the Copyright Act.
What is Barclays Capital Inc. v. Theflyonthewall.com, Inc., 650 F.3d 876 (2d Cir. 2011)?
800
This Lexis publication contains federal statutes compiled by subject.
What is the United States Code Service (USCS)?
800
Opposing counsel refuses to produce a single document, claiming that all your requests are overbroad. You bring a motion for sanctions, citing improper objections under FRCP Rules 34(c), Rule 37, Rule 11(b), and this other FRCP Rule that allows for sanctions in such a scenario.
What is FRCP Rule 26(g)?
800
In 2007, a copyright infringement lawsuit was filed against, inter alia, this pro league and U2 frontman Bono.
800
After seeing the words "SCHOOL, BOSS, LANDLORD?" projected onto the Low facade during the Columbia student worker protests, you research the legality of such protest projections and find this Court of Appeals of Nevada case reversing an injunction granted against a defendant who had used similar projections.
What is Int'l Union of Painters & Allied Trades Dist. Council 15 Loc. 159 v. Great Wash Park, LLC, No. 67453, 2016 WL 4499940 (Nev. App. Aug. 18, 2016)?
800
The viral 2021 New York Times Magazine article "Who Is the Bad Art Friend?" describes a litigation battle between two writers. On January 20, 2022, Plaintiff-in-Counterclaim Dawn Dorland Perry moved to amend her restated counterclaim, citing "improper" text messages she found in discovery. In her memorandum in support of the motion, she attached as Exhibit F a screenshot of a text exchange with this Guggenheim-winning writer.
Who is Celeste Ng?
1000
This West publication contains New York statutes compiled by subject.
What is McKinney's Consolidated Laws of New York Annotated?
1000
Your opposing counsel in a New York Supreme Court case has indicated that he will oppose your request for a virtual preliminary conference. You cite this court rule that permits parties to appear at a conference virtually and encourages courts to grant such requests.
What is 22 NYCRR § 202.10(a)?
1000
An asylum-seeking client based in Boston was recently served a subpoena, ordering her to appear for a deposition in New York City for an SDNY case in two months. You move to quash the subpoena for this mandatory reason.
What is travel in excess of 100 miles?
1000
While in line at Absolute Bagels, you get into an argument over whether tofutti cream cheese can really be called cream cheese. Later, when you look for FDA guidance, you discover a 2018 notice requesting comments on the labeling of plant-based products with names that include "cheese," and find that this many comments were received on this docket.
What is 14,017 comments received?
1000
You represent a "Single's Inferno" reality show contestant based in New York who wishes to sue another contestant based in Seoul for defamation in SDNY. You are not allowed to serve the defendant by mail or email despite FRCP Rule 4(f) and Article 10(a) of the Hague Service Convention for this reason.
What is the Republic of Korea's objection to service under Article 10?