Class assignments are listed alphabetically by course name. All will be posted as received. If you do not see the assignments you are looking for, check TWEN, CANVAS, your professor's personal homepage or return to this web page to check again later.
Before our first day of class, please visit our Canvas site, read over the syllabus which you will find in the "Modules" section, and complete the reading assignment for Aug 24, which is pages 1-50 of our casebook. If you have any questions about this class, please ask them in the discussion forum I created for them.
Before our first day of Zoom class on Monday August 24 at 4:00 p.m., please visit our Canvas site. On the home page, click on Start Here and read through the Welcome and other orientation information, Week 1 Overview, and then click through to the first assignment module for August 24. If you have any questions, contact Ron Clark. Looking forward to working with you.
As background for the introductory lecture, read pages 1-35 of the casebook and Appendix B.
As background for the introductory lecture, read Chapter 2. If you might be interested in corporate law as a practice area, read Chapter 1 as well.
Register for this course on WestLaw’s TWEN site.
Monday, August 24
Wednesday, August 26
Power of Procedure: Walker v. City of Birmingham (on Canvas); Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Table of Contents; the DOJ Ferguson Report, pp. 1-6 (on Canvas); Five First Year Survival Tips. Complete Week 1 Discussion (on Canvas).
Please see the assignment and questions for week 1, August 25-28, 2020.
Zoom link for Tuesday and Thursday, August 25 and 27, 2020
Zoom link for Friday, August 28, 2020
Power of Procedure: Walker v. City of Birmingham (on Canvas); Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Table of Contents; the DOJ Ferguson Report, pp. 1-6 (on Canvas); Five First Year Survival Tips. Complete Week 1 Discussion (on Canvas).
Please see information about how to purchase the required texts.
Please click here for the first assignment.
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Please read:
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Please read:
Tuesday, August 26, 2020
For the first day of class, please familiarize yourself with the pages of the website associated with the course, and read the materials in Section I (Introduction), Assignment 1 (Text 1-13, 1471-1488).
All information concerning the course, including the Syllabus, is available in “Skover Online,” at http://www.skoveronline.net/courses/index.html.
Tuesday, August 26, 2020
For the first day of class, please familiarize yourself with the pages of the website associated with the course, and read the materials in Section I (The State Action Doctrine), Assignment 1 (Text 1435-1450).
All information concerning the course, including the Syllabus, is available in “Skover Online,” at http://www.skoveronline.net/courses/index.html.
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Segment 1, Part A: Understanding State Constitutions
G. Alan Tarr, Understanding State Constitutions, 65 Temple L. Rev. 1169 (1992)
Please browse the following materials. They will not be discussed in detail at this class meeting, but they will be used to provide context for Segments 1 and 2.
Listen or read (optional):
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Register for this class on TWEN. Your syllabus is posted there.
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Register for this class on CANVAS. Your Contracts Coursebook and Handbook will be posted there. Your First Week’s assignments found in your Coursebook and are attached here as well:
Monday, August 24, 2020
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Criminal Law Intro and First Assignment Fall 2020
Please read the course information and policies in the "Introduction to Criminal Law document" and complete the following assignment for class on August 24.
Read Criminal Law, Chapter 1; pg. 3-23, and “How to Prepare for Criminal Law Class” (posted on Canvas).
Prepare answers to these questions for discussion:
RCW 9A.48.030: Arson in the second degree.
A person is guilty of arson in the second degree if he or she knowingly and maliciously causes a fire or explosion which damages a building, or any structure or erection appurtenant to or joining any building….
Model Penal Code (MPC) Section 212.1: Kidnapping.
A person is guilty of kidnapping if he unlawfully removes another from his place of residence or business, or a substantial distance from the vicinity where he is found, or if he unlawfully confines another for a substantial period in a place of isolation, with any of the following purposes:(a) to hold for ransom or reward, or as a shield or hostage; or(b) to facilitate commission of any felony or flight thereafter; or(c) to inflict bodily injury on or to terrorize the victim or another; or(d) to interfere with the performance of any governmental or political function.
Please join the TWEN site for this class.
Please read 1st Assn TAPIA INTP-330-E.docx.
Before our first day of class, please visit our Canvas site, read over the syllabus which you will find in "Modules" and the Week 1 Overview. Complete the reading assignment for Week 1 that you will see there, and do the Reading Analysis assignment, due Monday the 24th at 9am. If you have any questions about this class, please ask them in the discussion forum I created for them.
Read: Matter of Simmons, 414 P.3d 1111 (Wash., 2018)(for purposes of bar admission, a moral character inquiry is determined on an individualized basis and there is no categorical exclusion of an applicant who has a criminal or substance abuse history); Text: pp. 1-41; Model Rules: Preamble and note on Scope, pp. 42-58; Model Rule 8.1; WA Admission to Practice Rule (APR) 3 and 21-24 and the Application for Bar Examination in the WA ST Bar Adm. Requirements Generally Folder.
Please read the following for the first lecture on August 24:
"Guidelines for Zoom Sessions," "Justice in the Real World: God's Work on Earth Must Truly be Our Own." Focus: What are Remedies? The Rightful Position Principle. Casebook 1-18 (Includes Introduction plus U.S. v. Hatahley and notes following including Taliferro v. Augle.)
Please also see the syllabus, posted on Canvas, for information on how to access the Remedies TWEN page.
First Assignment
Pages 1-4 and 7-13 (Garratt v. Dailey and Blyth v. Birmingham Waterworks)
Casebook
We will be using Keeton, Sargentich, & Keating, Tort and Accident Law (4th ed. 2004).
“In the Zone”
The following students are “in the zone” for the first day of class and should be prepared to be called upon and meaningfully discuss the assigned reading:
We will proceed alphabetically in subsequent classes.
TWEN
Please register for this course (Torts Section A) on Westlaw’s TWEN once you have received your WL password. A complete syllabus has been posted there, and I will be using TWEN as a means of communication.
Monday, August 24
Textbook:
Read pp. 1-9 as background reading on the structure of the legal process; this will not be explicitly discussed in class. For class discussion, read pp. 10-19, on the elements of the tort of battery.
Text: Henderson, Kyser, and Pearson, The Torts Process (9th ed.) Be sure you are getting the 9th edition if you are buying a used copy.
Read pp. 1-9 as background reading on the structure of the legal process; this will not be explicitly discussed in class. For class discussion, read pp. 10-19, on the elements of the tort of battery.
Text: Henderson, Kyser, and Pearson, The Torts Process (9th ed.) Be sure you are getting the 9th edition if you are buying a used copy.