Category Archives: Civil Procedure

What should Atticus do?

                Harry was smacked in the head with a book by either Atticus or Dexter (or both). Harry is not sure which person smacked him in the head. So Harry sues them in the alternative, alleging: Count I: Atticus hit me; Count II: Dexter hit me; Count III: Both Atticus and Dexter hit me. Atticus is an […]

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Additional review video on Civil Procedure for Spring MBE

Just posted: Part II of the review of Civil Procedure topics for the Spring 2015 Multistate Bar Examination, available here. This video provides a review of some of the Civil Procedure topics that may be on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) in February 2015. Topics covered: Preliminary injunctions & TROs Pleading (plausibility, answers, amended pleadings, relation-back) Rule […]

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Relation-back practice essay

Note: this relation-back fact pattern (to best of Professor Nathenson’s knowledge) was written initially by ALI Zachary Smith, and updated by ALI Cristina Morales. Peter Parker and Paul Pierce are obsessed with playing video games.  Every Saturday night, Parker and Pierce play Battleship Enterprise, an intense World War II naval combat game.  Many gaming experts […]

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