Criminal Law
This type of mens rea involves a defendant's awareness of a substantial risk that a result will occur, but they proceed with their conduct anyway.
What is recklessness?
The rule that states the offeree must accept the terms as stated in the offer?
What is the mirror image rule?
The constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to a jury trial in civil cases.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
What is an event that breaks the chain of proximate cause?
What is an intervening superseding event?
The Fourth planet from the sun
What is Mars
This specific offense involves knowingly obtaining or possessing someone else's personal property through fraud or deceit, with the intent to permanently deprive them of it.
What is embezzlement?
When only one party of a contract is mistaken about part of the contract this kind of mistake is said to have occurred?
What is an Unilateral mistake?
The amount-in-controversy requirement for diversity jurisdiction.
What is $75,000?
What are the intentional torts?
What is battery, assault, false imprisonment, trespass to chattels and trespass of land
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
This defense applies when a defendant is charged with a crime, but the defendant’s actions are considered justifiable under law because the crime was committed to prevent a greater harm.
What is necessity?
What acronym is used to list what is covered under the Statute of Frauds?
What is MYLEGS?
This case held that placing a product into the “stream of commerce” is insufficient for personal jurisdiction unless the defendant purposefully availed itself of the forum state.
What is Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court (1987)?
What is the term for when two negligent defendants are liable for the entire amount of damages?
What is joint and several liability?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
Murder and manslaughter are the two types of what?
What is homicide?
What is the type of law that applies for the sale of goods
What is the UCC
If a party seeks appellate review of an issue not raised at trial, the court will generally apply this standard of review.
What is plain error review?
Tim ran into the street and was hit by a bicycle rider. Neighbor Bob saw the accident while sitting on his porch. Tim sued Bob for negligence for not yelling and warning him of the bicyclist. Bob's defense is?
what is he has no duty
The only English word that ends in "-mt"
What is dreamt?
What acronym is used to cover the felony murder felonies?
What is BARRK (burglary, arson, rape, robbery, kidnap)
The rule that states if there are contradicting terms in a contract they are removed as if it never existed.
What is the knock-out rule
The federal rule that provides for waiver of personal jurisdiction defenses if not timely raised.
What is Rule 12(h)(1)?
Under the doctrine of Contributory Negligence how much can a plaintiff recover if the total damages are $1,000 and plaintiff is 10% negligent and the defendant is 90% negligent?
What is Zero?- under the doctrine plaintiff cant recover if they were negligent even a little bit
This 1803 case established the principle of judicial review, affirming the Supreme Court’s power to declare laws unconstitutional
What is Marbury v. Madison