I know that law students tend to dislike math. But math can be cool. For those of us not in the know, March 14 is Pi Day, celebrating the mysterious ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. The number is irrational, so there is no end to its number of digits. Go to 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com (or here) […]
As my Civ Pro students know, I like to analogize supplemental jurisdiction to an ice cream cone: The cone is the federal district court. The ice cream is original jurisdiction. Examples include sections 1331, 1332, 1335, 1338, etc. The sprinkles are supplemental jurisdiction. Can you have an ice cream cone without ice cream? No, that’d […]
St. Thomas Law‘s own Professor Patricia Hatamyar Moore testified today before the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives regarding class actions. The hearing addressed “The State of Class Action Ten Years After the Enactment of the Class Action Fairness Act.” Professor Moore was the only professor to address the committee and did a fantastic job, doing […]
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 […]
