Criminal Law
What are the two broad classifications of crimes in the United States?
What is felonies and misdemeanors.
What is a tort?
What is a civil wrong.
Name one Supreme Court case that has been overturned (either explicitly or de facto)
What is: Schenck v. United States, Whitney v. California, Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Korematsu v. United States, Frye v. United States, Lemon v. Kurtzman, Roth v. United States, Plessy v. Ferguson...
Who is the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court?
Who is John Roberts.
What are the two types of LSAT questions?
Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension.
What is the standard for proof for a criminal conviction?
What is beyond a reasonable doubt.
What are the requirements to have standing to sue in Federal court?
What is/are injury in fact, causation, redressability.
What does the Fourth Amendment protect against?
What is unreasonable searches and seizures.
True or false? The New York Supreme Court is the highest court in New York.
False.
What is the highest achievable LSAT score?
What is 180.
How many people are on a felony jury?
What is 12.
What does a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenge?
What is the legality of someone's detention.
What Supreme Court case is the nomenclature of the rights you hold while being interrogated in police custody?
What is Miranda v. Arizona.
What is the name of the highest court in New York?
What is the Court of Appeals.
Two schools are tied at #1 in US News 2025 law school rankings, name one of them.
What is Yale and Stanford.
True or false? In New York, a person who abducts their nephew with the sole purpose of assuming control of the nephew is guilty of kidnapping.
Name one kind of motion in a civil case.
What is: Motion to dismiss, motion for summary judgement, motion to set aside verdict, motion for preliminary injunction, motion in limine.
Which clause of the Constitution is used to justify most federal criminal law?
What is the Commerce Clause.
Federal Appeals Courts are divided into thirteen circuits. Which circuit is New York located in?
What is the 2nd Circuit.
What is the name of part of the law school application process which is most like the college essay?
What is the personal statement.
What motion, called a “440 motion” is covered by New York CPL Article 440?
What is motion to vacate judgement.
When is summary judgement granted in a civil case?
What is: when there is no genuine dispute of fact and a party is entitled to judgement as a matter of law.
There are six provisions/protections of the First Amendment, name all of them.
What is: Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, right to petition the government, freedom of religion, protection against government establishment of religion
How many U.S. District Courts are there?
What is Buffalo Law.