Wednesday, October 15, 2008
We turned in our first legal memo yesterday on a case of a child being injured when he trespassed on land and whether he has a valid cause of action, a viable law suit, against the land owner to recover damages, in the state of Minnesota. So that was common law torts, as governed by section 339 of Restatement Second of Torts.
Now we are moving on to the subject of our second memo, statutory issues. To start off, we have a little exercise on state statutes. I have two issues, mainly dealing with marriage license issuance in the state of Nevada and nepotism in the state of Wyoming. The professor didn't want us to get into the habit of using Westlaw or Lexis all the time. He specifically wanted us to use the actual code books in the library, or he will make us do it all over again. So I spent 10 minutes yesterday looking for relevant part of the Nevada code but couldn't find it. The Wyoming statute, the book contain the title I was looking for was missing from the shelf. Frustrating.
So I went online searching with Google and found the relevant statutes in a couple of minutes. Pulled up title 9 of the Wyoming statutes and title 11 of the Nevada statutes, search for nepotism and marriage respectively, and I got it. Now just go to the library, double check the books there to make sure I indeed look it up in the books because the professor said he can tell the difference between someone doing it online and using the books.
Now we are moving on to the subject of our second memo, statutory issues. To start off, we have a little exercise on state statutes. I have two issues, mainly dealing with marriage license issuance in the state of Nevada and nepotism in the state of Wyoming. The professor didn't want us to get into the habit of using Westlaw or Lexis all the time. He specifically wanted us to use the actual code books in the library, or he will make us do it all over again. So I spent 10 minutes yesterday looking for relevant part of the Nevada code but couldn't find it. The Wyoming statute, the book contain the title I was looking for was missing from the shelf. Frustrating.
So I went online searching with Google and found the relevant statutes in a couple of minutes. Pulled up title 9 of the Wyoming statutes and title 11 of the Nevada statutes, search for nepotism and marriage respectively, and I got it. Now just go to the library, double check the books there to make sure I indeed look it up in the books because the professor said he can tell the difference between someone doing it online and using the books.
