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Stanford Law graduate Kasey Baughan takes you through the first year of law school. We will start with a brief overview of the US legal system, and then move to contract law, tort law, criminal law, and the other subjects you'd typically cover in the first year of law school.
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Topic: Remedies, Damages, Foreseeability
Court of Exchequer 1854 (England)
Case Link: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/45164
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Topic: Specific Performance
Court of Chancery of New Jersey, 1907
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/curtice-bros-co-v-catts
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Topic: Moral Obligation
Supreme Court of Massachusetts 1825
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/mills-v-wyman
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Are there any cases or topics you'd like me to do an episode on?
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Doesn't need to be about contracts.
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Learn about an oil company swindling a landowner out of their well.
Supreme Court of North Carolina 1946
1:34 – Case start
https://casetext.com/case/stonestreet-v-oil-co
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Learn about more about consideration and a man who gave false hopes to his brother's widow.
Supreme Court of Alabama 1845
1:34 - Case start
https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/2227
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirksey_v._Kirksey
This paper gives (a lot) more back story: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=899002
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This lecture covers the three different ways of calculating damages in contracts.
Topic: Remedies
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Topics: Contract Remedies
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1973
Damages Spectrum:
Restitution <---> Reliance <---> Expectation
Restitution Damages:
The $622 she paid for surgery
Expectation Damages:
Difference between her messed up nose and "beautiful" nose
+ Pain and suffering for third surgery
+ Any hospital expenses for third surgery
+ Difference between her earnings with messed up nose and earnings she would have had with "beautiful" nose
Reliance Damages:
Difference between her messed up nose and pre-surgery nose
+ Pain and suffering for first two surgeries
+ Any hospital expenses for first two surgeries
+ Pain and suffering for third surgery
+ Any hospital expenses for third surgery
+ Lost earnings due to messed up nose
+ The $622 she paid for surgery
Coursera Lecture: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/contracts-1/sullivan-v-o-connor-nose-job-kjokM?authMode=login
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This topic comes as a special request from one of our listeners.
Topic: Remedies
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Topic: Moral Obligation
Court of Appeals of Alabama, 1935
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/webb-v-mcgowin-1
Second Restatement §86: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/2718
Professor Ian Ayres Video Lecture: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/contracts-1/mills-v-wyman-moral-obligation-webb-v-mcgowin-rescuers-recompense-DkjYX
Commentary on Webb v McGowin, Harrington v Taylor, and Mills v Wyman: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://www.faulknerlawreview.org/article/16603.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CTeGX6uUIoKOygTS-ZbwCQ&scisig=AAGBfm2HsO5RJCYhdtzOZO8hfIosMyrp3Q&nossl=1&oi=scholarr
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Topic: Moral Obligation
Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1945
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/harrington-v-taylor-2
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Topic: Moral Obligation
Supreme Court of Utah, 1961
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/manwill-v-oyler
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We are moving from the study of consideration onto a new topic called Moral Obligation.
If you promise to pay someone for something they gave you in the past, will courts enforce that promise?
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Topic: Mutuality of Obligation
Court of Appeals of Washington, 1982
Case link: https://casetext.com/case/omni-group-v-seattle-first-natl-bank
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Topic: Mutuality of Obligation
Court of Appeals of New York, 1917
Case link: https://casetext.com/case/wood-v-duff-gordon
Wikipedia entry on the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_v._Lucy,_Lady_Duff-Gordon
Wikipedia bio on Lady Duff-Gordon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy,_Lady_Duff-Gordon
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Topic: Mutuality of Obligation
Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1936
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/mcmichael-v-price
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Topic: Mutuality of Obligation
Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 1913
https://cite.case.law/ky/156/6/
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What happens when one party promises to fulfill their side only "if they feel like it"?
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Learn about a garbage man who bit off more than he could chew.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 1974
https://casetext.com/case/angel-v-murray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_v._Murray
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Learn about a fishing trip that turned into a hold up.
US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1902
1:00 – Case start
http://madisonian.net/downloads/contracts/alaska.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Packers'_Association
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