CivPro
Q: This rule states that title of the complaint must name all the parties [just say the number].
A: What is FRCP 10?
Q: In Webb. V. McGowin (a case involving the doctrine of antecedent benefit), the plaintiff saved the defendant’s life by unbelievably jumping to the ground with a block of this material.
A: What is lumber?
Q: This legal doctrine explains why Walter could sue Wal-Mart instead of Lovin (the pharmacist).
A: What is respondeat superior?
Q: In TVA v. Hill (1978), the Supreme Court held that the Tellico dam should not be completed to save this two-word species of fish.
A: What is snail darter?
Q: Professor Cohen is the Faculty Director of this Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics.
A: What is Petrie-Flom?
Q: The Mathews test for deprivation by the state requires us to look at the private interest in retaining property, the burden placed on the government, and this.
A: What is the risk of erroneous deprivation?
Q: The doctrine of promissory estoppel was laid out in this case involving a granddaughter who left her job as a bookkeeper after her grandfather promised her $2,000 + annual interest [both parties, please].
A: What is Ricketts v. Scothorn (1898)?
Q: Goldberg’s plain-vanilla view that “reasonable unpermitted entry is still an unpermitted entry” helps reconcile Vincent with this similar trespass case [only name plaintiff].
A: What is Ploof?
Q: This dissenting justice criticized Justice Gorsuch for being too literalist in his Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) opinion.
A: Who is Justice Alito?
Q: Professor Goldberg has a coffee tumbler with a torts meme that alludes to this magazine.
A: What is Sports Illustrated?
Q: The well-pleaded complaint rule, resulting from the Mottley decision, narrowed the “federal ingredient” test for SMJ that was established in this case [both parties].
A: What is Osborn v. Bank of the United States (1824)?
Q: The policy rationale for R2K § 89 (contract modification) is to prevent this economic “game” [think Alaska Packers].
A: What is hold-up?
Q: IIED requires this kind of conduct, which courts have shown requires a high bar to prove [two words].
A: What is extreme and outrageous?
Q: The issue of whether ABA committees have to abide by FACA rules came up in this 1989 Supreme Court decision [plaintiff only].
A: What is Public Citizen?
Q: Before coming to Harvard Law School, Professor Bar-Gill taught at this law school.
A: What is NYU?
Q: As per Grable and subsequently Gunn, federal jurisdiction over a state law claim will lie if a federal issue is: (1) necessarily raised, (2) actually disputed, (3) substantial, and (4) this [can paraphrase].
A: What is, capable of resolution in federal court without disrupting the federal-state balance?
Q: Cardozo implied an obligation to use this in Lucy v. Wood to prevent problems arising from lacking mutuality.
A: What is “best efforts”?
Q: While some courts believe this is part of the prima facie case for assault / battery, the majority opinion is that this is an affirmative defense.
A: What is consent?
Q: Dynamic statutory interpretation, which was embraced by Judge Posner in his Hively v. Ivy Tech (2017) decision, was purportedly founded by this legal scholar?
A: Who is William Eskridge?
Q: Professor Freeman was in awe when someone in class said “fetish of meaning in this sense.”
A: What is Marxist?
Q: The rule for Complete diversity was established in this Supreme Court case [plaintiff and defendant].
A: What is Strawbridge v. Curtiss (1806)?
Q: Ads are not offers! In the original commercial featured in Leonard v. Pepsico (1999), the Harrier jet cost this much.
A: What is 7,000,000 Pepsi points?
Q: This well-known rule, that the “defendant must take the victim as he finds him,” came about in Vosburg v. Putney (1891).
A: What is the eggshell skull rule?
Q: While an engrossed bill is sent from one chamber of Congress to another, this adjective is used to describe a bill sent to the President to sign.
A: What is enrolled?
Q: Professor Goldberg clerked for this Supreme Court justice, who also happened to play in the NFL.
A: Who is Byron White?