Fall 2015 First Assignments

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DAY/TIME

FIRST ASSIGNMENT

Administrative Law

530 1 Schuckers L204 _{9:00 – 10:25am}Tue & Fri

Due Tuesday, August 18

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Please read the various theories of agency behavior on pages 34-40 of the Lawson textbook.

Advanced Criminal

Procedure

784 1 Diehm L205 4:00 – 5:25pm Mon & Thu

Due Thursday, August 20

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No assignment is due.

Alternative Dispute

Resolution

879 1 McGuire L205 Thu 8:00 – 9:50pm

Due Thursday, August 20

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*First assignment has not been created yet for this class. Please check back at a later time for an update.*

Bankruptcy Prep

6088X 1 Lockard N/A Online Course

Due Date: N/A

Professor Lockard will contact you directly with your first assignment.

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Business Planning

733 1 Prince L205 Wed 1:00 – 2:50pm Please sign up for this course on TWEN. All of your reading assignments, including the first one, will be posted on the class TWEN page.

Civil Procedure I

503 N S. Raeker-Jordan L202 _{1:00 – 2:25pm}Wed & Fri

Due Wednesday, August 19

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Please sign up for this course on TWEN. The syllabus will be posted on the course TWEN site.

For the first week of class, please read the following:

I.CIVIL LITIGATION:CONDUCTING ACIVIL LAWSUIT FROM

BEGINNING TO END

A. Introduction

-- (R) U.S. Const. art. III, sections 1-2; FRCP 1

-- (M) pp. 1-3, 14-20

B. Describing and Defining the Dispute

1. The Complaint

a. Some History, General Requirements, and Specificity

-- (R) FRCP 2, 3, 7, 8(a), 10, 12(b), 12(e), 12(f)

-- (M) pp. 125-44

-- (S)Presidio Group v. GMAC Mortgage

These are the texts/materials:

(1) Marcus, et al., CIVIL PROCEDURE:AMODERN

APPROACH (6th_{ed. 2013) (“}(M)_{” on the Syllabus and above);}

(2) Spencer, FEDERAL CIVIL RULES SUPPLEMENT (2015-2016)

(paperback volume or "Rule Book") (“(R)” on the Syllabus

and above);

(3) Supplementary materials that will be posted on the

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Civil Procedure I

503 R Family L204 Mon 8:00 – 9:50pm _{Tue 7:35 – 8:30pm}

Due Tuesday, August 18

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First Assignment:

Please sign up for this course on TWEN. Read pages 1-53 in Whose Monet?

Read pages 315-33 in Civil Procedure casebook (skip notes 2-3 on page 320 and skip notes and problems on pages 328-29).

Required Texts (3):

1. Stephen C. Yeazell, Civil Procedure (8th_ed.)

2. John Humbach, Whose Monet? An Introduction to the American Legal System

The above two items are available for purchase through the bookstore. The hardcover casebook comes bundled with the recommended study guide at a discounted price. I suggest you purchase this bundle.

3. **2015 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure**

You need to have access to the current Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. You may access the rules online at:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp.

Recommended Study Guide:

Joseph W. Glannon, Civil Procedure: Examples and Explanations (Aspen Publishers)

Clinical Externship

809 1 Durkin A172 Wed 5:00 – 5:55pm

Due Wednesday, August 19

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Climate Change

664 1 Brown A172

Pre-Semester Intensive:

Sat, August 15th_&

Sat, August 22nd

9:00am - 5:00pm

Due Saturday, August 15

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The reading assignment was emailed to you on July 16th_.

Please read all seven (7) attachments from that email before the first class session.

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Constitutional Law

602 N Dimino L202 Mon 12:30 – 2:20pm _{Thu 1:00 – 2:50pm}

Sign up for the course's TWEN site, where you will be able to access the syllabus and other course documents. For the first class on August 20th_{, read pages 101-11 and 73-90 of}

the Casebook, as well as the Constitution of the United States (Appendix I of the Casebook, at pages 1441-58). The background material on pages 3-71 provides valuable context for understanding the controversies that have shaped constitutional law. It is optional but highly recommended, especially for students who lack a thorough understanding of American history.

Constitutional Law

602 1 Lee L206 Mon 8:00 – 9:50pm _{Thu 6:00 – 7:50pm}

Due Thursday, August 20

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Text: Massey, American Constitutional Law, 4th_ed.

Supplement: Supplement #1 is available for pick-up from the bins outside the Faculty Secretary’s Office. Supplement #2 will be available in September.

Assignment: Please read pp. 3-6, 40-48, and 129-35 in the text, and read all of Supplement #1.

Contracts I

507 N Kearney L202 _{10:00 – 11:25am}Tue & Fri

Due Tuesday, August 18

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In preparation for your first class, please read Lucy v. Zehmer.

Contracts I

507 R Robinette L206 _{Thu 8:40 – 10:05pm}Tue 6:00 – 7:25pm

Due Tuesday, August 18

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Read chapter 1 in the casebook (Michael Hunter Schwartz,

Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook" (2d ed., 2015)).

Copyright and

Trademark

734 1 Evans L206 Wed 3:00 – 4:25pm Fri 1:00 – 2:25pm

Due Wednesday, August 19

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Criminal Law

505 1 Dimino L203 Tue 6:00 – 7:25pm _{Thu 8:00 – 9:25pm}

Due Tuesday, August 18

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Sign up for the course's TWEN site, where you will be able to access the syllabus and other course documents. For the first class on August 18th_{, read pages 23-39 and 69-73 of}

the Casebook; as well as pages 1-5 (through § B), 27-31, and 112-15 of Dressler, Understanding Criminal Law (6th ed. 2012). In addition, read the Missouri Halloween Statute (M.R.S. § 589.426), which is available on TWEN, and 18 Pa. C.S. §§ 104 & 107(b), which are included in the Pennsylvania Statutory Supplement, and also on TWEN. For the second class on August 20th_{, read pages 40-60 and}

74-90 of the Casebook; pages 11-25 and 49-65 of

Dressler; United States v. Gementera (available on TWEN); and 18 Pa. C.S.

Evidence

836 1 Diehm L204 _{11:00 – 12:25pm}Wed & Fri

Due Wednesday, August 19

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Family Law

636 1 Kearney L204 _{10:35am – 12:00pm}Mon & Thu

Due Thursday, August 20

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Please read Moreno (p. 346) and Moore (p. 354) in the casebook.

Federal Income Tax

610 1 Hussey L204 _{2:30 – 3:55pm}Mon & Tue

Due Tuesday, August 18

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Please sign up for this course on TWEN. The syllabus is posted on the class TWEN page, and your first reading assignment is outlined on the syllabus.

Fundamentals of the

Bar Exam

690 1 D. Raeker-Jordan L202 Tue 6:00 – 7:50pm

Due Tuesday, August 18

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*First Assignment has not been created yet. Please check back at a later time for an update.*

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Judicial Externship

809 1 Durkin A172 Wed 5:00 – 5:55pm

Legal Methods I

509 N1 to

N4 Hemingway/Smith TBA

Mon 1:00 – 2:25pm

Wed 10:00 – 11:25am

Due Tuesday, August 18

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(R sections)

-or-

Due Wednesday, August 19

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_{(N sections)}

Legal Methods I

509 R1 &

R2 Fruth TBA

Tue 8:40 – 10:05pm Thu 6:00 – 7:25pm

Legal Methods III –

Appellate Advocacy

512 N1 D. Raeker-Jordan L202 Tue 2:00 – 3:50pm

Due Tuesday, August 18

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Legal Methods III –

Writing for

Criminal Practice

512 1 Cliatt L205 Tue 6:00 – 7:50pm

Due Tuesday, August 18

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Read Chapter 1 in your Pretrial Advocacy textbook, “Entering the Advocate’s World” (pp. 3-15). You may skip section III of Chapter 1, entitled “Progression of a Civil Case.” Read Entry 4 (E-4) on your CD case file in the back of the book.

Pennsylvania Criminal

Practice

743 1 Lewis L206 Wed 6:00 – 7:50pm

Due Wednesday, August 19

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Pre-Trial Methods

786 1 Marsico L205 Mon 8:00 – 9:50pm

Due Monday, August 24

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Professional

Responsibility

702 1 Davis L206 8:30 – 9:55am Mon & Thu

Due Thursday, August 20

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Welcome to the Fall term. For our first class, review the general organization of the Rules of Professional Conduct in your Rules Supplement; come prepared to tell me the difference between "ethics" and "professional

responsibility”; read Chapter 1 of the text, 11th Edition, including the Rico v. Mitsubishi case, and be ready to stand and recite that case; review the syllabus and be sure to make special note of the rules applicable to participation in my class; and read any materials on professionalism or otherwise noted on my TWEN page for reading in conjunction with Chapter 1.

Property I

515 N Moringiello L202 _{10:00 – 11:50am}Mon & Thu

Due Thursday, August 20

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Welcome to law school! Our first Property I class will take place on Thursday, August 20th_{. Please make sure that you}

have the casebook: Dukeminier, Krier, Alexander, Schill, and Strahilevitz, Property, 8th Edition (published by Wolters Kluwer). For the first class, please read pages 91-104 and 18-26 of that casebook. The syllabus and all future assignments will be posted on the class TWEN page at law school.westlaw.com/twen. Please sign up for the class on that site. See you August 20th_!

Property I

515 R Dernbach L206 Mon 6:00 – 7:50pm _{Tue 8:00 – 9:50pm}

Due Tuesday, August 18

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Sign up for Property I on TWEN. Read Barros & Hemingway, pp. 1-10.

Prepare answers for Exercises 1 and 2, which you can find on TWEN under “Course Materials.”

Real Estate Transactions

760X 1 Madden L204 Wed 8:30 – 10:20am

Due Wednesday, August 19

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Read pages 383-388 and pages 403-406 in Chapter 5. The Chapter 5 handout isavailable for pick-up in the bins located outside the Faculty Secretary's Office.

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Right to Know (Access

to Public Records)

7001 1 Staudenmaier L205

Pre-Semester Intensive:

Mon, August 10th

3:30 – 6:30pm (Note: time different from rest of classes)

Tue, August 11th_,

Wed, August 12th_,

Thu, August 13th_{, &}

Mon, August 17th

4:00 – 7:00pm

There is no textbook for this class. Most of your readings will be cases, along with some references to the Office of Open Records website -- http://openrecords.state.pa. Before August 10th_{, please sign up for this class on TWEN,}

and read and be prepared to discuss:

Right to Know Law, 65 P.S. § 67.101 et. seq. and Appeal Flow Chart; both are on TWEN under “Course Materials” Office Open Records website (Citizen's Guide, Forms and RTKL FAQs)

Bowling v. Office of Open Records, 621 Pa. 133, 75 A.3d 453 (2013) & 990 A.2d 813 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2010) Department of Labor & Industry v. Heltzel, 90 A.3d 823 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2014)

SWB Yankees LLC v. Wintermantel, 615 Pa. 640 45 A.3d 1029 (2012)

Scott v. Del. Valley Reg'l. Planning Comm., 56 A.3d 40 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2012)

In re: Venango County Tourism Promotion Agency, 83 A.3d 1101 (2014)

Lackawanna Court of Common Pleas v. Office of Open Records, 2 A.3d 810 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2010)

East Stroudsburg Univ. Foundation v. Office of Open Records, 995 A.2d 496 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2010)

Allegheny Cty. Dept. of Admin. Services v. A Second Chance, Inc., 13 A.3d 1025 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2013)

Meguerian v. Office of Attorney General, 86 A. 3d 924 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2013)

Com. of Penna., Gaming Control Bd.(Schneller) v. Office of Open Records, 103 A.3d 1276(2014)

Office of Governor v. Donahue, 98 A.3d 1223 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2014)

Breslin v. Dickinson Twp., 68 A.3d 49 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2013) Saunders v. Dept. of Corrections, 48 A.3d 540 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2012)

Dept. of Envt. Protection v. Legere/Times Tribune, 50 A.3d 260 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2012)

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Sales and Leases

646 1 Moringiello L203 Mon 6:00 – 7:25pm _{Tue 8:00 – 9:25pm}

Due Tuesday, August 18

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Please sign up for the Sales and Leases course on TWEN. I will post the first assignment to the course home page by Tuesday, August 11th_.

Seminar – Sustainability

Law and Practice

6097 1 Dernbach L201 Wed 1:00 – 2:50pm

Due Wednesday, August 19

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1. Sign up for Sustainability Law and Practice on TWEN. 2. Be prepared to state why you are interested in sustainability and what experience you may have with it. 3. Also, come to class with an article or web story about a threat to sustainability or an opportunity provided by sustainability.

4. Read the following materials, which are on TWEN under “Course Materials.”

• Jared Diamond, Easter’s End, Discover (1995)

• James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability 17-45 (2008).

Seminar – The Impact of

New Technologies in

Entertainment Law

7000 1 Evans L201 Thu 6:00 – 7:50pm

Due Thursday, August 20

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State Constitutional Law

773 1 DeLiberato L202 Thu 8:00 – 9:50pm

Due Thursday, August 20

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Read pages 82-137 from State Constitutional Law: Cases

and Materials by Robert F. Williams (New Providence, New

Jersey: LexisNexis, Fifth Edition 2015). Please also pick up your course syllabus from the bins outside the Faculty Secretary’s Office.

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Torts I

519 N Lee L203 Tue 2:00 – 3:50pm _{Thu 1:30 – 2:25pm}

Text: Prosser, Wade, & Schwartz’s Torts, 13th_ed.

Supplement: Available for pick-up from the bins outside the Faculty Secretary’s Office.

Assignment: Please read Garratt v. Dailey in the Prosser text, and read the Supplement through (and including) the brief and memorandum for Chaklos v. Webber.

Torts I

519 P Robinette L206 Tue 2:00 – 3:50pm _{Thu 1:30 – 2:25pm}

Due Tuesday, August 18

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Torts I

519 R S. Raeker-Jordan L204 Mon 6:00 – 7:50pm _{Thu 7:35 – 8:30pm}

Due Thursday, August 20

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*First Assignment has not been created yet. Please check back at a later time for an update.*

Trial Methods

781 1 Lockard L205 Tue 5:00 – 5:55pm

Due Tuesday, August 18

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Read pp. 1-12 of Modern Trial Advocacy and skim Dixon v.

Providential Life. You do not need to carefully read all of

the Dixon book, but you should become familiar with the facts of the case.

Wills and Trusts

834 1 Hussey L203 Mon 8:00 – 9:50pm _{Thu 6:00 – 7:50pm}

Due Thursday, August 20

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Please sign up for this course on TWEN. The syllabus is posted on the class TWEN page, and your first reading assignment is outlined on the syllabus.