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Test Your Skills
A brief quiz to test your ability to research case law.
- You
have a citation to 326 U.S. 310.
a. Where would you find this in the Supreme Court Reporter (give the citation).
b. Where would you find it in the Supreme Court Reports, Lawyer’s Edition? -
Find the Loving vs. Virginia Case from the 1960s.
a. What is the general issue it deals with?
b. Identify a West topic and key number on this issue.
c. Identify a Texas case (not necessarily recent) on the same topic. - There was a flag-burning case in Texas a few years ago that went all
the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
a. Give the name and citation
b. What year did the alleged crime take place? - Identify two things the following three cases have in common:
952 F.2d 1450
988 F.2d 133
888 F.2d 878 -
Recently the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that executing a person who
committed a crime while still a juvenile (i.e., under 18) is unconstitutional.
a. Give the name and citation of the case
b. When was the case decided?
c. Were there any concurring or dissenting opinions? - The City of Denton has been
involved in a number of lawsuits over the years.
a. Cite a recent (within the past 10 years) published case in which the City of Denton was a defendant.
b. Did the City of Denton win that case? - The Coca-Cola Company once sued in federal court the publisher of a
poster containing the following parodistic image, asking for an
injunction:
a. Who was the offending company?
b. On what grounds did Coca-Cola request the injunction?
c. Was it granted? -
Mrs. X suffers from a medical condition that has made all her hair fall out. As a result, she wears an expensive, custom-made wig (or “full cranial prosthesis,” as she prefers to phrase it). She has an insurance policy that covers the cost of “artificial limbs, larynx, and eyes.”
a. Does a wig fit the definition of an “artificial limb,” according to the courts?
b. Cite a court case that defines the term “artificial limb” with regard to wigs. - The 5th Amendment
of the U.S. Constitution guarantees a citizen’s right not to testify
against himself in a criminal case. Use the annotated Constitution to
answer the following questions:
a. Does a corporation or other organization have the right to withhold records on the grounds that they would be self-incriminating to the corporation?
b. Cite a court case to support your answer.
c. Can an official of a corporation refuse to relinquish corporate documents on the grounds that they would incriminate him?
d. Cite a court case to support your answer. -
Spoliation is a term sometimes used with regard to evidence in a court case
a. Give a definition of spoliation as used with regard to evidence in a court case.
b. Cite a Texas case where this term was defined.
