civil procedure
Reality Check
Grades from CivPro are expected today. Here’s the message I got from the student enrollment services site, where they will be posted:
HTTP Error 500 - Internal Server Error
Due to heavy load, Enrollment Services Online is unable to perform your request at this time. Please try again in a few minutes. If the problem persists, please […]
It is finished
Ah, nothing like a law exam to remind you of how much you didn’t figure out. We came, we saw, we answered, or at least tried to. If the jurisprudence I displayed were to be given any credence, it would most certainly be considered activist. As Ragazzo is fond of quoting, “Nothing so focuses the […]
Ask not for whom the bell tolls…
It tolled for me.
Home is where the domicile is
An observation Chris D. and I noted last night - when Ragazzo asks you a question and you respond, and in response to your response he exclaims “Amazing!” … this is not a good sign. He is, in fact, amazed, but not at something you’ve done well.
Last night was to be the first of many […]
Civil Procedure, Class Prep for Thursday June 8, 2006
Today I had the unpleasant and hopefully unique experience of leaving one of my case briefs lying useless on the printer at home instead of helpfully stashed in my CivPro binder where I needed it if called on. (Luckily I wasn’t) If this sounds like not such a big deal, keep in mind I’m not […]
CivPro Assignment for Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Favorite Ragazzoism of tonight’s class - “As a judge I once clerked for once said - nothing so focuses the mind as having to make it up.”
Assignments for tomorrow (hmmmm…. I guess it’s already tomorrow, sigh) for tonight are:
Read p. 165-205 in Field’s text
Brief: Handel v. New York Rapid Transit Corp.
Brief: Ritter v. Ritter
Brief: American […]
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 2005
Here’s a handy link to an online version of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 2005 in case you want to follow along at home or you’re running out of bedtime stories for the kiddies. I’m personally finding it handy to copy and paste into Word so I can annotate with notes and case references.
CivPro Assignment for Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Ragazzoism of the day - “That’s one of my favorite things about this text, it tells you nothing and makes class so much more exciting.”
Read p. 114-165, Field’s text [51 pages, of which 115-151 are the most important]
Rule 38
Rule 39
Rule 47
Rule 48
Rule 50(a)
Rule 52(c)
Brief: American Hospital Corp. v. Hospital Products (1986)
Brief: County Floors Inc. v. […]
How I’m Learning to Stop Worrying and Love the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
We’ve finished the first two weeks of Civil Procedure. This is only two days of course, but we’re going by Ragazzo time which means we have three hours of class a night, each hour covering what would normally be the contents of a full class in the fulltime program, ergo, we cover the material for […]
Hallelujah
Apparently the people who weren’t at orientation were sent the wrong assignment for the first day of class so we got a bit of a reprieve from Ragazzo. It was more than welcome. The syllabus we received has no dates, just the order in which we’ll read things with the rule of thumb that we’ll […]