Legal Research & Writing Party 2006

Legal Research & Writing was one of the classes we took alone with just our section. And we had it Fall through Spring. Plus we just finished this big briefs on a fictional case suing a kid recklessly and possibly intentionally killing a beloved and elderly cat "Muffy" in front of its child owner. Outrageous! To celebrate finishing the brief and almost being done with the first year of law school our kind LRW Professor Moran got us a funny Muffy cake.

Section B 2006 on the last day of LRW

"In Memory of Muffy" cake

Here are some of the best Muffy quotes:

• "If Jack had chased after a boy, "just trying to scare him", with a tractor, a large and dangerous machine that has killed before, would you not find that to be outrageous?" -JK


• "Based on the common-sense notion that running over a cat is somewhat different from running over inanimate, inorganic property, California has heaped statutory and jurisprudential disdain upon those who, like Callaghan, purposefully terrorize animals." - JZ


• "The trial court seems to envision a harmless child innocently chasing a cat through bucolic meadows. The outrageousness of Callaghan's behavior, however, must be evaluated in light of the context in which they actually occurred." - JZ


• "Judge Cohen can't handle the truth!" -SH


• "Is there some reason we're not doing trespass to chattels?" -JP
• "I believe it's because in that case you are only responsible for the cost of the chattel. I think elderly deaf arthritic cats go for maybe $7 on ebay." - EA


• "There are two means of refuge from the misery of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

Dinner at Professor Leslie's 2005

Our section has Contracts with Professor Leslie and he's our section advisor/spiritual leader. He invited us over for dinner on Saturday, and even though we were mostly all still hungover from PILA we happily obliged. His wife made three delicious lasagnas for us as well as salads.

Professor Leslie and Ryan

Dinner table

Other angle


Getting more lasagna

Roger, Elizabeth, and Sarah


Me and Brian


Jeremy, Mrs. Leslie, Selina and back of Brooks


Julie


Cyndra and Kathy

After dinner and conversation we checked out their home theater in the basement and he showed us "the music greats" including Elvis. Audra and I had never seen a video of Elvis performing and we promptly fell in love. Too bad we're about 30 years too late.

Donald, Lauren, Kathy, Nathan, Justin, and Jerry


Helloooo Elvis


Jon, Andrew and his girlfriend


Professor Leslie's home theater dance

First Day of Law School 2005

Yesterday was the first day of law school! We all take the same classes first semester: Contacts, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, Torts, and "Legal Research & Writing."

Feeling very "Legally Blond"

The entire class is divided into "sections" A-L. I'm in Section B, and we have all 5 classes together. For Contracts (with Professor Leslie) and Legal Research & Writing (with Professor Moran) our small section is alone. Civil Procedure (with Professor Ortiz) we take with Section I, so we're getting to know them better than most. Criminal Law (with Dean Jeffries) and Torts (with Professor Abraham) we take in large lecture halls with multiple sections.

The law school

The law school is beautiful, but my favorite place by far is the library.

How can you not love this?


Little walled garden that's surrounded by law school.