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Kasey Baughan

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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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 lecture covers the three different ways of calculating damages in contracts.

Topic: Remedies

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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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Topic: Moral Obligation

Supreme Court of Massachusetts 1825

Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/mills-v-wyman

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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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Are there any cases or topics you'd like me to do an episode on? 

Send a request!

Doesn't need to be about contracts.

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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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Learn about a landlord who pretends to let their tenants off easy.

Supreme Court of New Jersey 1936

1:00 - Case start

https://casetext.com/case/levine-v-blumenthal

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Learn about some of the pitfalls that can occur when parties try to modify their original agreements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-existing_duty_rule

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Learn about whether consideration needs to be based in fact.

Court of Appeals of Maryland 1956

1:34 – Case start

https://casetext.com/case/fiege-v-boehm

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Learn about a player who went broke.

US District Court for the Southern District of New York 1930

1:34 – Case start

https://casetext.com/case/in-re-greene-5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(contract_law)

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Learn more about consideration in our goriest case yet.

Tenn Court of Appeals 1947

1:34 – Case Start

https://casetext.com/case/palmer-v-dehn

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Learn about a construction company who paid nothing and got less than what they paid for.

Penn Superior Court 2006

1:34 - Case start

https://casetext.com/case/pennsy-supply-v-amer-ash-recycling-corp

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Learn about a father who didn't want his son to get a pay raise.

California Court of Appeals 2004

1:34 – Case start

https://casetext.com/case/jara-v-suprema-meats-inc

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Learn about whether ideas can count as consideration.

Court of Appeals of New York, 1993

1:34 – Case start

https://casetext.com/case/apfel-v-prudential-bache-sec

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Learn about two brothers giving the boot to a sister-in-law. 

It's the British version of Kirksey v Kirksey.

Queen's Bench 1842

1:34 – Case start

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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 a loyal employee's pension that got cut short.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania 1932

1:34 - Case start

https://casetext.com/case/langer-v-superior-steel-corp

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Learn about this classic case of an uncle who bribed his son to sober up.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York 1891

1:34 - Case start

https://casetext.com/case/hamer-v-sidway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamer_v._Sidway

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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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The foundation for all contracts is both sides offering consideration. Learn what counts as consideration and its limits.

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Learn why contracts are a fundamental building block for society.

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Using the law to resolve disputes always results in some degree of ambiguity. Learn how judges address ambiguity and still come to a resolution.

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The basic hierarchy of laws starts with Consitutional Law, and works its way down to the Common Law. This is important background knowledge to have before we begin studying case law.

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Meet the host and find out what this podcast is all about.

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