Remedies - syllabus/reading assignments

Syllabus / class schedule/ reading assignments 


Remedies Fall 2019  


Prof. George Conk
Senior Fellow, Stein Center for Law & Ethics
gconk@law.fordham.edu 

Tuesdays - 6:00  - 8:50
Room 4-04

NOTE:  The first meeting of this class will be Tuesday, September 3!!!!

All page references are to:
Weaver, et al.  Remedies -  Cases, Practical Problems, and Exercises
Fourth  Edition (West Academic Interactive casebook series)   
 ISBN:  978-1-63460-445-1

Learning objectives (Dropbox)

Slides, handouts, and notes


There are two pages on my blog Torts Today dealing with course requirements.
The first is Policies - which has the grading options (take-home exam, term paper, UCWR), etc.  The second is this page with the proposed schedule, reading assignments, etc.

 If you are on call: please present the issues in the case as a defender of the majority.  If you are assigned a dissent - defend it.  If you are assigned to present other materials - take the same approach.  I may assign another to be devil’s advocate.

All should be prepared to discuss the Hypo’s as designated below.

Slides: are used in class.  I will provide a printed copy at the time of class and a dropbox link.    The slides are not an outline.  They contain points I want to highlight, discussion questions, etc.  

Laptops: YES. You will need them to access the electronic version of the casebook, slides, and other materials on the internet.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  The Common Law (1881)


Class 1 Overview and Equitable Remedies
pages 1 - 37
Historical background, equity in the U.S., Equitable remedies today: Standards - conscience, in personam, inadequacy of remedy at law/irreparable harm, discretionary nature of equitable relief

Lecture
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump 
(9th Circuit Court of Appeals, December 7, 2018) 
Asylum Act: 8 U.S.C. 1158
Order denying stay of District Court TRO (majority opinion)
Dissent (by Leavy, J.)



Class 2 Ch. 2 -Equitable Defenses

pages 38-86
Unclean hands; unconscionability, laches, estoppel

Class 3

Ch. 2 Trial by Jury
pages 87 - 108
Why have jury trials been in decline?  

Arbitration

Lecture: Arbitration and the scope of the Federal Arbitration Act

Should mandatory arbitration clauses in shrink wrap contracts be barred?
Read: blogpost: Uber drivers cannot be compelled to arbitrate OT claims - 3rd Circuit

Kernahan v. Home Warranty (blogpost - read court opinion and NJSBA Argument )
Kindred Nursing Centers v. Clark (U.S. 2017) read syllabus only - for background
Assignment: draft a mandatory arbitration clause in a consumer contract that will pass muster. MAXIMUM 100 words!!!

Chapter 3 Enforcement of Equitable Decrees
October 3- recorded class (start at 45:00) 
page 109-144
Civil v. criminal contempt


Class 4
Ch. 3 The duty to obey: collateral challenges
pages 172-193, 194 -196

U.S. v. United Mine Workers
Walker v. Birmingham

Background:
Watch M.L. King, Jr. on Meet the Press (1965) discussing civil disobedience  

Historical deep background:
In Selma - the movie - King is just one of many heroes
Rev. M.L. King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) 

 Ch. 4 Injunctions and Declaratory Judgments
October 13, 2020 recorded class.  Starts at 14:00
pages 197-242, Hypo 4.21 The Hazardous Waste Incinerator

Overview -   injunctive and declaratory relief, standards for declaratory relief, standards for injunctive relief - preliminary relief, mandatory and prohibitive relief

Class  5 - Ch. 4 Injunctions and Declaratory Judgments
pages 235-255
Notice requirement, Bonds

Scope: The national injunction problem: East Bay Sanctuary v. Barr preliminary injunction 7/24/19; limiting scope (9th Circuit 8/16/2019); comments ImmigrationProfBlog 8/16/2019.
See Torts Today blogpost: Supreme Court, over Sotomayor dissent, stays 9/9/19 nationwide injunction issued by Judge Tigar (read Tigar order and Sotomayor dissent - both linked in the blog post)
Where do you fall - with the majority or the dissent?


Ch. 4 Injunctions and Declaratory Judgments
pages 294-327
Permanent injunctions, framing injunctions


Class 6
Ch. 4 Injunctions and Declaratory Judgments

Legislative reapportionment: 
Harper v. Lewis Injunctive Order (10/28/19)

Reference:
Harper v. Lewis - complaint 
Common Cause v. Lewis full text  (excerpt - justiciability) (9/3/19)
Voting rights materials: dropbox
Brennan Center - Harper v. Lewis (resource)

pages 397-429
Structural injunctions - integrating Kansas City schools,  legislative reapportionment

$2 Billion estimate for Kansas City Schools a shock


Class 7
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas - Brown II 349 U.S. 294 (1955)

U.S. v. Jefferson County Bd. of Ed., 380 F. 2d 385 (5th Cir, en banc 1967) 

Read:
en banc majority opinion and decree
*Judge Griffin Bell's dissent

See Public school integration page  for background


Class 8


School Busing:

Metropolitan area remedial busing and other uses and limits of the remedial power.

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg, 402 U.S. 1 (1971)

 Detroit - Desegregation stops at the city limits

*Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974)

Forgotten history: how the federal government segregated America - Excerpt from The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein



New York State's Extreme School Segregation - The Civil Rights Project//UCLA

Class 9

The New York City Specialized High Schools 

Christa McAuliffe Intermediate School  PTO v. DeBlasio  DROPBOX LINK
Motion for Preliminary Injunction - Memorandum of Law
Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction
Opinion and Order - Denying Motion for Preliminary Injunction, etc. 2/25/19

Background

District 3 plan - Video
The elite high schools

The Specialized High Schools Admission Test Overhaul Plan

Test Unrest: New York City's Examination High Schools 
by Aaron Saiger 21 City Law 1 (2015)
Specialized High Schools Admissions Could be Delayed - Chalkbeat

Is there a viable solution? - the State constitutional law approach

Latino Action, et al.  v. New Jersey
Complaint

Fact sheet


Class 10
 Ch. 5 Restitution
Executive summary: Injunctions and Declaratory Judgments - pp. 453-458
pages 459-488, Hypos 5.19, 5.20, 5.21
General principles, defenses, measuring the enrichment,

Ch. 5 Restitution - special restitutionary remedies

pages 490 - 499  (499-547 reading only)
Constructive trusts, equitable liens, priority over other creditors, circumventing debtor exemptions, subrogation

 Ch. 6 Damage Remedies

pages 549-594 Casey’s inhaler; General damage principles - the basic measure of damages- make whole; fair market value; contract price; Property Damage applying market measures, losses beyond the value of the thing lost - consequential damages

Class 11

Ch. 6 Damage Remedies
pages 612-666

Limits of market measures

Subjective value, pain, suffering, distress, and loss of joy

Class 12

Ch. 6 Damage Remedies
pages 672-720
Indignity and intangible losses, wrongful death, loss of consortium
Economic losses:
personal injury Mary Smith case
wrongful death Daniel Jones case
Mass tort settlement - ASR DuPuy Hip Implants

Class 13

 Ch. 6 Limitations on Recovery
pages 720-765, Hypos 6.55, , 6.5, 6.57, 6.58, 6.59, 6.60
Causation, foreseeability, certainty avoidable consequences and related doctrines, collateral source rule

Background: Reference Guide on Estimation of Economic Damages

Federal Judicial Center - Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence - 3rd edition

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