Torts
This tort involves harmful or offensive physical contact.
What is battery?
This is required for a valid contract and involves a bargained-for exchange.
What is consideration?
This amendment protects freedom of speech.
What is the First Amendment?
This type of concurrent ownership includes the right of survivorship.
What is joint tenancy?
This type of jurisdiction allows a federal court to hear cases between citizens of different states with an amount in controversy over $75,000.
What is diversity jurisdiction?
This standard measures how a “reasonable person” would act under similar circumstances.
What is negligence?
This doctrine allows enforcement of promises based on reliance.
What is promissory estoppel?
This clause prevents states from passing laws that impair contracts.
What is the Contracts Clause?
This doctrine allows ownership through continuous, open, and hostile possession.
What is adverse possession?
This doctrine requires defendants to have sufficient ties to the forum state.
What is personal jurisdiction?
This doctrine allows negligence to be inferred when accidents normally don’t occur without it.
What is res ipsa loquitur?
This rule requires certain contracts (like land sales) to be in writing.
What is the Statute of Frauds?
This standard of review requires a law to be narrowly tailored to a compelling interest.
What is strict scrutiny?
This future interest follows a life estate and waits patiently to become possessory.
What is a remainder?
This case established that defendants must have “minimum contacts” with the forum state.
What is International Shoe Co. v. Washington?
This rule makes a defendant liable for unforeseeable injuries due to a plaintiff’s condition.
What is the eggshell skull rule?
This doctrine allows a contract to be voided due to unfair pressure or threats.
What is duress?
This doctrine prevents courts from hearing abstract or hypothetical disputes.
What is standing (or justiciability doctrines)?
This rule invalidates interests that may vest too remotely.
What is the Rule Against Perpetuities?
This doctrine bars re-litigation of the same claim between the same parties.
What is res judicata (claim preclusion)?
This defense allows limited detention of suspected shoplifters.
What is shopkeeper’s privilege?
This remedy puts the non-breaching party in the position they would have been in if the contract were performed.
What are expectation damages?
This clause gives Congress power to regulate interstate commerce.
What is the Commerce Clause?
This doctrine may prevent removal of a minor encroachment due to unfair hardship.
What is the relative hardship doctrine?
This doctrine requires federal courts to apply state substantive law in diversity cases.
What is the Erie doctrine?