Westlaw Challenge - Day 3 | For Law Students | Thomson Reuters Law Schools

Walk Away with Confidence Using KeyCite Flags

For day 3, we will focus on how you can validate your research to ensure that the primary source authority you are relying upon for your research and writing assignment is still good law. First, complete the 5-minute video that explains the different types of KeyCite flags and how to interpret each while analyzing a case. Then download and complete the guided exercise to practice the skills you just learned.

Complete the Guided Exercise

You are a summer associate working for the law firm Rush & Delay. One of the senior associates has asked you to assist her with a trial brief regarding negligence and foreseeability. Your task is to determine whether her cited cases are still valid and can be used to support her argument regarding foreseeability in a negligence action.

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Demurrer

Black’s Law Dictionary (10th ed.2014)

Demurrer: A means of objecting to the sufficiency in law of a pleading by admitting the actual allegations made by disputing that they frame an adequate claim. Demurrer is commonly known as a motion to dismiss.

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Restatement of Contracts 2d

Counter-offers

(1) A counter-offer is an offer made by an offeree to his offeror relating to the same matter as the original offer and proposing a substituted bargain differing from that proposed by the original offer.

(2) An offeree’s power of acceptance is terminated by his making a counter-off, unless the offeror has manifested a contrary intention or unless the counter-offer manifests a contrary intention of the offeree.

The answer and more can be found in the comments section of SS39 of the Restatement of Contracts 2d – Counter-offers

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What is common law and is it written by the courts of law?

Common Law
The origin of the Anglo-American legal systems. English common law was largely customary law and unwritten, until discovered, applied, and reported by the courts of law. In a narrow sense, common law is the phrase still used to distinguish case law from statutory law.

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Negligence defined

Restatement (Second) of Torts § 282

In the Restatement of this Subject, negligence is conduct which falls below the standard established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm. It does not include conduct recklessly disregardful of an interest of others.

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Westlaw Challenge: Day 3

Walk Away with Confidence Using KeyCite Flags

Complete the Guided Exercise

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