Mastering Multiple Choice for Federal Civil Procedure MBE Bar Prep and 1L Exam Prep
Authors:
Janssen, William M. / Baicker-McKee, Steven
Edition:
3rd
Copyright Date:
2018
7 chapters
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Part 2 Multiple Choice Questions 23 14 results (showing 5 best matches)
- Soccer Fan One attended the World Cup in a country outside the United States. Soccer Fan One met two other United States citizens while at the event, Soccer Fan Two and Soccer Fan Three, and they struck up a friendship. Between World Cup matches, Soccer Fan Two and Soccer Fan Three told Soccer Fan One that they knew a local bar where there was good music and the food and beverages were inexpensive. Soccer Fan One (who had never before traveled outside the United States) asked whether the bar was in a safe part of the city, and Soccer Fan Two and Soccer Fan Three assured him it would be safe. Soccer Fan One went to the bar and had a nice evening, but when he left the bar, he was robbed and beaten, suffering significant injuries. Subsequent investigation revealed that the bar was in a notoriously dangerous neighborhood. Soccer Fan One was a domicile of State A. Soccer Fan Two was a domicile of State B. Soccer Fan Three was a domicile of State C. After returning to the United States,...
- Guest was a paid visitor to Amusement Park. During his visit, Guest decided to ride “SuperCoaster,” the premiere, signature roller coaster operated at Amusement Park. Guest sat in row 7, seat 2. Amusement Park equipped each SuperCoaster seat with a lap-bar as a safety restraint. Guest’s lap-bar, however, would not lock properly in place. As he rode the ride, Guest tore his sneakers as he tried to restrain himself inside the coaster. When Amusement Park refused to reimburse him for his ruined sneakers, Guest sued the park for negligent failure to maintain the lap-bar, and won $103.72 in damages from the jury. On the very same day that Guest ruined his sneakers, NextGuest also rode SuperCoaster. She also sat in row 7, seat 2, encountered the same non-locking lap-bar, and was tossed around during her ride. NextGuest exited the ride feeling a bit sore, but otherwise seemed fine. Six months later, NextGuest discovered that she had suffered a life-endangering abdominal injury linked to...bar
- Is a lawsuit by Purchaser against the county to obtain a removal of the solar array barred by the doctrine of claim preclusion?
- A man domiciled in State A traveled to State C for a skiing vacation. While skiing, he hit a loose piece of equipment, lost control, and struck a woman who was also on a skiing vacation at the time of the incident. The woman was domiciled in State B. The woman filed suit in federal court against the man in State A, which has only one federal district. The man filed a motion to transfer venue to State C, arguing that the witnesses and evidence were all located in State C. The court granted the motion. Following the transfer, the man moved for dismissal for failure to state a claim, arguing that the woman’s claim was barred by the statute of limitations. Under the statute of limitations in State A, the woman’s claim would be timely, but under the statute of limitations in State C, her claims would be barred.
- No, because that claim is now time-barred.
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Preface to the Third Edition iii 3 results
- Civil Procedure remains a topic area that both 1L students and bar exam studiers find often dense and unsettling. This book is intended to help both—those trying to learn the nuances of Civil Procedure for the first time and those trying to remember those nuances as their bar examination approaches.
- Civil Procedure was first added as a testing topic to the multistate bar examination’s multiple choice test (“MBE”) in February 2015. It has been included in each administration of the MBE since then.
- The 200 questions, answers, and explanations contained here have been created by two law professors who teach Civil Procedure in their classrooms, but who also practiced civil litigation for many years in federal and State courts. The questions encompass every one of the topics and subtopics that the National Conference of Bar Examiners identified in its Subject Matter Outline as within the scope of coverage for the MBE portion of national bar examinations. This Third Edition has expanded the total question volume by 28% with all new multiple choice questions, answers, and explanations. It also incorporates the December 1, 2018 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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Part 1 Introduction to Mastering Multiple Choice for Federal Civil Procedure 1 11 results (showing 5 best matches)
- The NCBE included Civil Procedure as a tested topic in the MBE for the first time on the February 2015 administration of the national multiple choice bar examination. Previously, the topic of Civil Procedure had been tested on bar examinations principally through the use of essay questions.
- The scaled score needed to pass the bar exam has varied from year to year, and by administration time (February or July exam). Historically, the passing scaled score has hovered around 140. With the NCBE’s increase in the number of unscored, experimental questions from 10 to 25, along with the arrival of the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) and its adoption by an increasing number of States, reliably predicting how well you need to perform on the MBE to pass your bar exam has become a bit less certain. Experts in the field continue to subscribe to the view that a scaled MBE score of 140 remains a strong predictor for bar exam success.
- This book has two audience targets—(1) law school graduates who are preparing to sit for their State’s Bar Examination and (2) law school students who are preparing for course examinations in Civil Procedure.
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- The book contains 200 multiple choice questions on all the topics and subtopics included in the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ (NCBE) subject matter outline for Civil Procedure (which we have reprinted below). The volume of this book’s questions on each topic correlates to the percentages that the NCBE has stated it is now using in the Civil Procedure segment of the MBE. The questions are also posed to you in a manner that simulates the format used on the MBE (which is also the format often used in law school exams).
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Part 3 Multiple Choice Answers (with Explanations and Citations) 119 15 results (showing 5 best matches)
- Rule 12(b)(1). But a failure to raise the defense in this way does not bar its assertion later.
- A motion for relief based on newly discovered evidence is bound by the one-year time bar, and therefore would be untimely as described in Answer (A).
- As explained in Answer (A), Congress’s supplemental jurisdiction protected Professor’s State law claim from becoming time-barred while it was pending in federal court.
- Here, Happy’s Bar & Grill (a non-party) might well be an important source of information for Driver, but the information Happy’s Bar & Grill knows must be pursued with other discovery tools unless it is added to the lawsuit as a party.
- Rules 50(b) & 59(b). Consequently, a litigant generally may not file one post-trial motion, wait to see how the court rules, and then, if disappointed, file a second post-trial motion. The second motion would very likely be already time-barred.
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- Publication Date: September 28th, 2018
- ISBN: 9781642424201
- Subject: Civil Procedure
- Series: Career Guides
- Type: Academic/Prof. Development
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Description:
Need a little practice with multiple choice questions in federal civil procedure? Your solution has arrived.
You MUST buy this book if:
A. You are studying for your Bar Exam’s MBE multiple choice test, and are more than just a little freaked out by how broadly Civil Procedure can be tested;
B. You are in law school, enrolled in a Civil Procedure course, and you are exasperated trying to master the countless nuances of Civil Procedure;
C. You want a resource that helps coach you in improving multiple choice exam performance, with strategies, realistic questions, answers, and detailed explanations;
D. All of the above.
This third edition (expanded by 28% with new questions, new answers, and new explanations) encompasses material reflecting the Civil Procedure Rule amendments of December 2015, December 2016, and December 2018, along with applicable new case law. This multiple choice practice book is designed for: (a) bar exam takers, who are preparing to take the MBE multiple choice bar exam (Civil Procedure was added in 2015 as a multiple choice testing topic), and (b) 1L law students, who are preparing to take their course examinations. This practice book offers practical, easy-to-follow advice on multiple choice exam-taking strategies, clear suggestions on effective multiple choice practicing techniques, and a robust set of Civil Procedure multiple choice practice questions with answers and explanations (designed to simulate MBE-style questions). Tables help users decode the tested-topic for each practice question.
