Exam 1: Introduction to Law

Explain the role that power, importance, and fascination play in contemporary American law.

Explain the concepts of legal positivism, natural law, and legal realism as they relate to the field of jurisprudence.

In 1992, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in a case entitled Goodman v. Wenco Foods, Inc., that when a substance in food causes injury to a consumer of the food, it is not a bar to recovery against the seller that the substance was natural to the food. If, in a 2008 case involving a consumer's injury caused by a fish bone in a bowl of fish chowder, the court followed the decision in Goodman v. Wenco Foods, Inc., the court's action in the second case is an example of

DoorWay Computers, Inc., the trademark owner of "DoorWay," sought a court injunction to prevent Handyman Hardware, Inc. from using the domain name, "DoorWay.com." A jury will decide whether DoorWay is entitled to this remedy.

When the Food and Drug Administration prohibits a certain drug from being marketed in the United States, this is

The doctrine of stare decisis

In the House of Representatives, a state's voting power is based on its

The case called Kuehn v. Pub Zone would reveal that Kuehn is the plaintiff, since the plaintiff is always listed first.

Common law refers to

The doctrine of precedent requires

The doctrine of precedent is binding on all courts from county courts to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Wilfred was driving too fast for the icy road conditions and hit Sally's car. Sally can sue Wilfred in criminal court.

Contemporary law's principle of collective responsibility, such as all partners being personally responsible for the debts of the partnership, had its roots in the

President Nixon issued wage-price controls in an effort to stabilize the economy. This use of executive power was

Which is an example of a statute?

Under the natural law theory of jurisprudence, an unjust law is no law at all.

In the case of Panavision Int'l. v. Toeppen, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's decision. This means that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals approved the district court's decision and upheld the outcome in the case.

Henry David Thoreau felt that war was unjust and therefore refused to pay his taxes when the United States declared war on Mexico. If Henry David Thoreau's neighbor agreed that war was unjust but paid his taxes because the law required him to pay the tax, the neighbor would be applying the jurisprudence theory of

Congress can create a statute on any topic at all.

In Anglo-Saxon society, men were put into groups of ten, known as a "tithing" and were individually held responsible for any injury caused by any member of the group. This is the forerunner of the idea of business partnerships.