Contract cases: Team assignments
To do: | |||
1. | Read the "Everyone reads" cases. | ||
2. | For the cases assigned to your team: | ||
a. | Read the case, with a focus on the perspective of your team's assigned side, Plaintiff or Defendant. | ||
b. | Plaintiff side should be prepared to present the facts of the case. | ||
c. | After class discussion of the case, Plaintiff side prepares a case brief: | ||
<http://faculty.oxy.edu/whitney/classes/ec357/tasks/cases/brief_template.doc> | |||
(1) | For the case information (facts of the case, court opininon, etc.), copy and paste selected passages into the brief. Use brackets [] to enclose any passages you include that summarize or paraphrase the case. | ||
(2) | Your analytical summary should be about 1-2 paragraphs long. Aim to include in it the key points about the case raised during class. | ||
(3) | Limit your entire brief to 2-3 pages. | ||
(4) | Email me your completed brief by the next class meeting (whitney@oxy.edu) so that I can post it in the class schedule. | ||
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Plaintiff | Defendant | ||
IVB. Making contracts | |||
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway v. Columbus Rolling Mill 119 U.S. 149 (1886) | Team 1 | Team 5 | |
Sherwood v. Walker. 66 mich. 568, 33 N.W. 919 (1887) | Team 2 | Team 6 | |
Hamer v. Sidway 124 N.Y. 538 (1891) | Everyone reads | ||
Broadnax v. Ledbetter, 99 S.W. 1111 (1907) | Team 3 | Team 7 | |
Cotnam v. Wisdom, 104 S.W. 164 (1907) | Team 4 | Team 8 | |
IVC. Enforcing contracts | |||
Harding v. Ja Laur Corp., 20 Md. App. 209 , 315 A. 2d 132 (1974) | Team 6 | Team 1 | |
Stambovsky v. Ackley: 169 A.D.2d 254 (1991) | Everyone reads | ||
Alaska Packers Assn. v. Domenico, 117 F. 99 (1902) | Team 7 | Team 2 | |
Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co., 350 E2d 445 (1965) | Team 8 | Team 3 | |
IVD. Interpreting contracts | |||
Wood v. Duff-Gordon. 222 N.E. 88 (1917) | Team 2 | Team 8 | |
Suydam v. Jacskon 54 N.Y. 450 (1873) | Team 5 | Team 4 | |
Albert M. Greenfield & Co. V. Kolea | Team 1 | Team 7 | |
Morin Building Products Inc. v. Baystone Construction Inc. 717 F. 2d 413 (1983) | Team 3 | Team 5 | |
IVE. Breaking contracts | |||
Goebel v. Lynn 47 Mich 489 (1882) | Team 4 | Team 6 | |
Walgreen Co. v. Sara Creek Property Co., 966 F.2d 273 (1992) | Team 8 | Team 1 | |
Hawkins v. McGee 84 N.H. 114 (1929) | Everyone reads | ||
Groves v John Wunder Co. 205 Minn. 163 (1939) | Team 5 | Team 2 | |
Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal & Mining Co. 382 P. 2d 109 (1963) | Team 6 | Team 3 | |
Hadley v Baxendale, 9 Ex. 341 (1854) | Team 7 | Team 4 | |
Lake River Corp v. Carborundum Co. 769 F.2d 1284 (1985) | Everyone reads |