Sat through voire dire today, I am convinced that there is no sub set of the American population that is as moronic as a jury pool. and I have a brand new respect for those of you who are trial attorneys.

Asked a jury member after my first trial why they didn't award more: "We felt like most of your client's injuries were caused by the airbag, not the wreck."

As if airbags just go off all of the time randomly, sometimes right at the exact moment when you also have a wreck.

Good lesson to explain proximate cause for even the stupidest most obvious things...

I have an interview coming up for an associate position for the regional police. Given that it's a government job I expect the interview may be substantive.
Good research ideas?
Good questions to ask?

I applied for the job 3 months ago. They just called yesterday. I don't even have my application information or the job posting anymore. Definitely am in the dark!

I would research about practical matters impacting law enforcement. Body cameras, operation of detention facilities, coordination with local law enforcement agencies within the region, policy and procedure, backend IT infrastructure, use of force are all ripe for discussion to name a few.

Question for thread:

I'm outlining for Remedies final and I have the following in my notes...


"Lost volume seller- Has essentially infinite inventory, so doesn't have to cover individual unit as long as can prove would have been able to operate anyways.

If buyer who repudiated, remember to bring up things like overhead, storage costs, etc. in effort to lower potential judgment against."

I'm fine on lost volume seller definition and what it entails, but can't exactly piece together what I meant for buyer's rights. In the above situation, it would be a seller remedy for when buyer repudiates. I'm thinking it might mean like, show seller had no reliance damages for overhead/storage since they have infinite units, they wouldn't have needed a new facility/building/etc. to house the units when buyer backed out.


Any thoughts? I know that's not much information to work with, just figured I would toss it out there and see if anyone had a clue.


edit: 3L taking last final of semester + potentially last final of law school if next sem works out. There is a light at the end of the tunnel!

lost volume sellers are awarded profits lost rather than difference in selling price/market value, so you may be mentioning that the buyer should talk about those things in an effort to lower the "profit" amount owed to the seller for the breach??

just a guess.

Sounds to me like you're saying a plaintiff's damages aren't gross receipts/revenue. Like in most lost profits claims, P gets net income, which means things like costs of good sold, storage, and other fixed expenses are not recoverable damages because those are fixed costs that would have been incurred by P irrespective of the breach.

I believe you are both correct, that's what I was going for, thanks! I asked prof and he gave me the whole, "I can't give out specific help" garbage.

Ready to get this final done, it's been a hell of a class for reading/workload.

have any of you guys purchased any of the online study aids or programs? i just joined quimbee for free trial and it's okay but nothing special. really would just like as many practice questions as possible


fwiw some guy on reddit posted a bunch of commercial outlines/flashcards, etc for a lot of 1L and 2L classeshere

been pretty helpful for me , esp the 200+ flashcards in con law at least

last year I pretty much didnt use anything but emanuelle's outlines and it worked fine for me but I would really like to actually push into the very upper tier of grades this year

Prof threw a decent red herring on final, thought I would share it.

Question was about contract damages and what not (still remedies final), but one of the follow up questions was about punitive damages and whether or not P qualified to bring them. It was an express K, so rule of no punitive damages applied. However, the way he phrased it, it almost implied it was like, the correct path, so to speak.

I know at least 3 or 4 people who analyzed all 10 punitive factors + the extra factors about ratios laid out by SCOTUS. One guy spent almost 2.5 of our total 6 hours on it. GG

1L's, don't get tricked lol

PR final tomorrow. It is really, really hard to care.

Lol, me too.

i got mine this week too

i haven't paid one iota of attention in that class

6 hour final? goddamn. that sounds super tough mentally...

in one class we received the actual final on the last day of class (nov 17) and then we have to "start it" (on blackboard) before dec 17th, and once we start it we have 3 hours to complete it. before "starting it" we can write up our entire answer and then transcribe it in the 3 hours. i have no idea how many hours i spent on it, but i'd guess "a lot" and then there's the 3 hours i have to spend rewriting it. tbf writing the exam was a form of studying so i guess it got as much time as every other class? i wrote like 7300 words but i could probably get up to 8k and i write very terse style too.

conflict of laws...insane class.

after i finished writing it yesterday i actually had my gf put a pw on the document so i would stop tinkering with it and focus on my sec reg exam next monday.

Yep, I literally do that and submit a bill index which has it all added up for them (jurors can't add either). It doesn't always get in, but it should.

I studied maybe 5-6 hours total for PR and pulled the CALI. If you put any effort at all, I think you're probably at peak of the class lol

Yeah, f conflict of laws, that **** was tough for me too. As for the 6 hour, it was capped at 18 pages single spaced, so once I hit the page limit, it was pretty much over. I would probably stress out more with your format, like trying to rewrite the correct answer over and over.

the only experience i had with conflict of laws was on the bar exam.. it had been tested twice in 15+ years the most recent in 2001, and it was tested on mine. Thank god i had studied the 2 essays barbri had which a bunch of my classmates skipped because it hadnt been tested for so long.


PR- my teacher was new, and he really liked out of class reading assignments which were all psychological studies on ethics, they were all on the test and the only stuff from class were issue spotters. Easy B+ with very little attendance/studying.

Nah, not gonna happen at my school. Enough people committed to the tryhard sadly.

boooo

I intentionally waited until 2nd sem 2L since the "good" prof was teaching it first sem, so all the super gunners rushed in. By 2nd semeter, it was like me, some lower ranked 2L's and the 3L's who just dgaf

On the heels of the PR exam, MPRE results released. Apparently my one day of studying was far too much. Needed an 86 to pass and got a 113. I truly have no idea how, there were lots of questions I was very unsure of.

Congrats!!! You're ethical!

Don't think the prof reads them anyway, but any Evidence exam tips? He always claims to be a complete slacker and that he won't have the exam written until the day of the exam, but I am pretty sure there will be a large section of yes/no hearsay questions.

Always ask yourself "is the evidence relevant, and if so, why?" Most issues follow in some way from that threshold analysis.