May it please the court...

Add a line about how likely damages must be difficult to ascertain at the time of contract formation and the stipulated sum must be a reasonable estimate of probable damages or reasonably proportionate to actual damages, and you have my Oral Argument performance.



I'm hoping that next semester I'll get to defend the Whizzo Chocolate Co. in a products liability suit.

8 comments:

Snag said...

I knew someone who had to deal with a hypothetical involving a woman who jumped to her death from the window at her hospital's mental health unit.

"I don't think she committed suicide," said my acquaintance. "I think she was murdered."

Fear not.

Adorable Girlfriend said...

MIB, you are currently in law school?

We need to talk...

Mr. Middlebrow said...

Snag:
There was an insanely implausible (yet supposedly true) case in the Accomplice Liability section of my Crim Law book about a guy who had jumped off a building but was actually killed by a shotgun blast out the window of an apartment that he fell past. The shotgun was fired by the jumper's father at the jumper's mother. The jumper had loaded the gun in the hope the father, who frequently brandished the unloaded gun at the mother, would actually do the old lady in. And apparently, the guy was jumping because his mother was not dead, despite his machinations.

Oh, and there was something about a net. Or maybe it was Annette. I forget.

AG: Yep. I'm all ears.

Adorable Girlfriend said...

Wonderful. I am going to need some advice for my essay and LSATS. I have some other bloggers who have agreed to help and plan on taking them up on it, but a student who has recently run the gauntlet is also helpful.

Unless, you are single, Jewish and cute. Then we could just marry and your mother could be happy with the non lawyer, but still very professional degreed AG and the Jewish babies.

Just throwin' it out there since Fish is not a Jewish boy and is a total tease.

Kathleen said...

hilarious! I hope at least your argument didn't get side-tracked on the standard of review.

Mr. Middlebrow said...

AG: I'm happy to help in any way I can. Email me and I'll give you my two cents'. Regardless, though, you need to get in touch with my pal Goldie. I suspect he's got a shot at the Jewish mother tripartite dream date test.

Check the blogroll under "Oklahomeless."

Adorable Girlfriend said...

Goldie? AG is already loving him...

I will totally e-mail you in the near future.

Look at K-Unit over here. Did like everyone have a party over here for the past 2 years and forget to tell AG?!!!

Adorable Girlfriend said...

Cobag, get out of clinic and post something new to your blog.

You know -- some Hillary or AG love would work!

:)