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First Assignment Fall 2018

Contracts

LAW 511 Section 2

Doron M. Kalir


Assignment details

Welcome to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law! 

My name is Doron Kalir, and I'll be your Contract Law professor. I look forward to meeting each of you.

Please purchase the casebook, Problems in Contract Law (Knapp, Crystal and Prince; 8th Edition); be sure to purchase only the latest (8th) edition of the book. 

Please also purchase the Statutory Supplement of the Casebook, by Knapp & Crystal. Here, while purchasing the last edition (8th) is recommended, it is not necessary. 

Your Reading Assignments for the first week of class are the following:

A. For Monday, August 20, Please read pages 1-17 and 29-41.

Pages 1-17 are background information; we will discuss them only briefly.

Ray v. William G. Eurice & Bros., Inc. will be our first Contract Law case. Please be sure to read it carefully, at least twice.

Please think of the following questions: 

1. In this case - like in any case you'll ever read - A sued B. Who is A? Who is B?

2. What did A argue? (This is referred to as the "claimed facts"). 

3. What did A want? (This is referred to as "remedy"). 

4. What did B argue in return? (This is a feature of our "adversarial court system." Each side makes different - and often opposing - claims.)

5. What did the court (below) decide? Did it Give A what he wanted? (This is referred to as the "lower court holding"). 

6. What was the lower court's reasoning? 

7. Who appealed the decision? (This is referred to as the Appellant; the other party is the "Appellee"). 

8. What did Appellant argue? What did Appellee argue back? (the adversity continues on appeal). 

9. What did the court of appeals decide? Who "won" the case? 

10. What do you think? Was the court of appeals correct? If so, why? If not - why not? 

B. For Tuesday, August 21: no further readings. We will continue our discussion of the case. 

C. For Thursday, August 23: please read pages 41-51 in your casebook. Review the cases included therein according to the guidelines above. 

I'm looking forward to our first class! 

Doron