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First Assignment Fall 2021

Contracts

LAW 511 Section 1

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. 

Reading Materials

Please purchase the casebook, Problems in Contract Law (Knapp, Crystal and Prince; 9th Edition); be sure to purchase only the latest - Ninth (9th) - Edition of the book. You may purchase it used; you may not purchase the 8th Edition. 

Please also purchase the Statutory Supplement of the Casebook, by Knapp & Crystal from 2019. Same rules apply. 

Reading Assignment - First Two Classes

Your Reading Assignments for the first week of classes are as follows: 

A. For Tuesday, August 24, Please read pages 2-12 and 35-46 of the Casebook. 

Pages 2-12 include introductory materials. In paritcular, they contain an attempt to define the term "Contract." After reading it, can you tell me what a "Contract" is? Could you sum it up on two words?

Pages 35-46 include our very first Contract Law case: Ray v. William G. Eurice & Bros., Inc. Be sure to read it carefully, at least twice from beginning to end.

While reading the case, please think of - and try to answer - the following Ten Questions (which I will repeat with every other case we'll study this semester): 

1. In this case - like in any case you'll ever read - A sued B. Who is A (also known as the "Plaintiff")? Who is B ("Defenddant")?

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

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

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

5. What did the court (below) decide? Did it Give A what they wanted? (This is referred to as the "lower court's 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, Aug. 26, please read pp. 46-60, including the two cases (Lonergan and Normile), and think of the 10 questions as they relate to each case. 

I'm looking forward to our first class!

Please email me - at d.kalirnull@csuohio.nulledu - with any questions or comments.

Best,

Doron