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LAW531 Week 1 Apply assessment

In the context of a court case process, what is the definition of mediation?
• Changing a trial court’s decision
• Use of a third party to resolve a dispute, often legally binding
• Request for a higher court to review a case
• Using a third party (specifically) to resolve a dispute

In the context of a court case process, what is the definition of affirmation?
• Ratification of a trial court’s decision
• Returning a case to a trial court for resolution
• Changing a trial court’s decision
• Using compromise to settle a dispute

In the context of a court case process, what is the definition of rejoinder?
• Restoring credibility to a witness’s claim
• Plaintiff’s challenge to defendant’s claim
• No other explanation can be derived from the facts—evidence
• Reducing the integrity of a witness’s claim

In the context of a court case process, what is the definition of defendant?
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The target of a complaint
• Restoring credibility to a witness’s claim
• Court order to appear in trial
• Decision of the jury

In the context of a court case process, what is the definition of sequestered?
• A jury is separated from the community during a trial
• First-sight evidence
• Evidence assuming assent of the reasonable person
• First-sight evidence

In the context of a court case process, what is the definition of deposition?
• A jury is enlisted
• Summoning of potential jurors
• Determination of jurors’ fitness for jury duty
• Testimony out of court during pretrial investigation

In the context of a court case process, what is the definition of default?
• Failure of the defendant to fulfill an obligation
• The target of a complaint
• Court order to appear in trial
• Filer of a complaint

After a tragic event in which an armed intruder storms into a mall and fatally shoots several people, the city of Belmonte institutes a law that prohibits any form of weapon in public retail establishments. This reaction would be an example of following which school of jurisprudential thought?
•
historical perspective
• sociological
• command
• irrational forces

Laws that are meant to promote free trade and market efficiency likely fall under which school of jurisprudential thought?
• irrational forces
• natural law
• command
• law and economics

A new law is established in the town of Avery that promotes affirmative action employment for trans-gender and homosexual individuals. This law would be in pursuance of the tenets of the ________ school of jurisprudential thought.
• irrational forces
• sociological
• historical
• law and economics

Which jurisprudential school of thought relies the most upon precedent in establishing law?
• sociological
• historical
• law and economics
• natural law