OA Bar Prep With Heather! T3BE38
Added 2024-08-28 04:29:47 +0000 UTCThe answer for T3BE37 is coming your way, and we launch our next Bar Prep question with Heather!
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Oh yeah I should probably do this to afford losing my streak. Sooooo I'm gonna go with !Answer C. I think the defendant did nothing to take the jurisdiction of the plaintiff's state up, and they naturally took up the jurisdiction of the state they committed the crime in. So comes down to if their own state could prosecute. I could see it going either way but I'm guessing that a state generally doesn't have jurisdiction to police conduct their residents do in other states. Seems like that state should have that right.
ToddTheOdd
2024-09-04 02:20:37 +0000 UTCOne cannot just walk into Mordor, so I think C is the proper answer. Since the offense happened there it must be solved in Jerry Judge's court of Isengard.
Jenney Dowd
2024-08-31 18:24:26 +0000 UTCSeems like the one person who read my "Thor ends up in Middle Earth during the war of the ring" fanfic wrote a bar exam question... odd conflux but i will allow it... Anyway, on to the answer. (in the words of Thor) Dont let thy tricker Loki fool thee. Thy answer is D. For thou haveth been inflicted with thy worst of injuries. With thy wisdom of Forseti, the presiding one, thou can get justice. For thy has a valid claim in both Eastern District of the State of Mordor or in the State of Isengard. Because thy injury happened in Isengard, but thou defendant resides in Mordor. If it is required, then I, Thor Odinson, will personally ask Eir to help recover from thy injuries. She has helped thou heal many a battle wound. And remember, if thy falls to this Debby Defendant, then you will be granted the greatest of honors. A seat at my war table in Valhalla. May Odin protect you in future conflict, and may Forseti rule in your favor.
David Bax (Spinobreaker)
2024-08-30 07:08:09 +0000 UTCE. Debby runs off to the Shire for her 80th birthday party and tweets about it; Patty hires a couple of orcish goons to hunt her down and serve her there.
Bald Weasels Scrotal Manscaping
2024-08-30 03:05:32 +0000 UTCOne pool party for the alliteratively named, under the Isengard sky, Seven cans of Mordor beer for the guests by the pool, Nine horns of Asgardian mead for those who can fly, One slap across the face, from Debby the fool In the Land of T3BE where the bar questions lie. One set of laws to rule them all, One set to find them, One set of laws to bring them all, but in which venue bind them? In the Land of T3BE where the bar questions lie. The wisdom of the council of Elrond is thus, let it be known the proper venue is either the dark District of Mordor or the State of Isengard, where the ancient laws of Middle Earth rule. Asgardian law holds no sway over Debby Defendant for she neither resides there nor has she broken Odin's law across the Bifrost. Thus it is D. Besides, Asgard isn’t a place, it is a people. * *Thor 3 reference, don’t @ me bro.
Matthew from Talking About the Big Stuff Podcast
2024-08-29 16:01:08 +0000 UTCPatty is from Asgard. When she got the invite to Isengard, she could not have known that the "pool" would be a steaming, wreaking hole in the ground filled with brackish water and that they wouldn't be eating anything except moldy bread for three stinking days. But she might have known goblins from Mordor would be there, since news of Saruman's treachery was so shocking there can't be a place in any universe where it wasn't spoken of. As to the proper venue, Isengard is the logical answer since the alleged assault took place in the former fortress of Gondor. The only other possibility, however, is not Mordor, but Asgard. Since the godess Patty is bringing the suit, she could bring it in her home state, if Debby the Orc had a certain threshold of contact with Asgard. There is no mention of that in the question and I think it's safe to say no orc has ever crossed the Bifröst into Asgard. Moreover, there is no option of both Isengard and Asgard. I think option D is a distraction, which means the only correct anser is C, The State of Isengard Only.
Please Stop Belittling Me
2024-08-29 13:00:54 +0000 UTCAh, the legal battles of Middle-earth! Patty Plaintiff, hailing from the lush forests of Asgard, is taking Debby Defendant, a resident of the shadowy Eastern District of Mordor, to court after a not-so-friendly smack to the head at a pool party in the land of Isengard. Now, if Saruman’s seeing-stone was a legal text, it would tell you this: Patty can either haul Debby to Mordor (a place where anyone would be thrilled to fight a court battle), or she can take her grievances to Isengard, where the infamous pool party took place. Both are proper venues under the great laws of Middle-earth. So, the correct answer is D. Either the Eastern District of the State of Mordor or the State of Isengard.
Aminah
2024-08-28 16:52:53 +0000 UTCI don’t have much idea about this jurisdictional issue but I appreciate Thomas calling out the multiple worlds issue, both because I was thinking it and because it reminds me of the closest thing to the bar I’ve ever done, the mid-2000s Magic: the Gathering judge exam. That had a wonderful option on a lot of questions “this can’t happen as described” for cases where some other rule had been violated. So I’m agreeing with E. This can’t happen as described, Mordor and Isengard don’t share a world with Asgard, let alone a jurisdictional agreement.
Niko
2024-08-28 09:48:47 +0000 UTC
