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Give the citation to the 1994 United States
District Court case from the Eastern District of California in which the court
found that “Presidential Skill Contests,” requiring listing of presidents in
order of date of service, answering essay questions, and wordfind were
contests, not illegal lotteries under California law

Give the citation to the 1996 United States
District Court case from the Southern District of Indiana in which the court
found that, under Indiana law, the fact that the horse was blind in its left
eye was not, in and of itself, a “dangerous propensity” or tendency of the
horse that would potentially allow the owner of the horse or the premises at
which horse was kept to be held liable for injuries suffered by an invitee who
was thrown while attempting to mount the horse.

1. Name two sets of books containing the
codified version of federal statutes and annotations to those statutes.
2. Name the advance session law service for
your state.
3. Name the set of books for your state
containing state statutes arranged in chronological order.

a. What federal government agency is the
subject of title 17 of the Code of Federal Regulations? b. What federal
government agency is the subject of title 26 of the Code of Federal
Regulations? c. What federal government agency is the subject of title 50 of
the Code of Federal Regulations?

Locate the federal regulations in the Code
of Federal Regulations concerning labeling of alcoholic beverages and answer
the following questions:
a. What is the wording for the warning
required to be placed on alcoholic beverages? b. What is the effective date of
the labeling regulation? c. What is your correct citation for a and b?

1. When is online computer-assisted legal
research recommended over using print materials? Discuss specifi c examples of
legal information that can be located more cost-efficiently using free Internet
resources.

1. Is it fair to suspend an attorney for
poor writingskills?
2. What types of legal documents have you
read? What are the purposes of those documents?
3. Which documents will you be writing as
class assignments? Why do you think your professor had assigned those
documents?

1. Pick one of the research problems from
Appendix E.
2. Research the problem you have chosen.
3. Write an office memo summarizing and
explaining your research

1. Which footnotes in the fi rst sample
office memo seem to be the most helpful and why?
2. How does the second sample office memo
diff er from the fi rst?
3. What changes would you make to either
of the sample office memos to make them better?

In a written opinion, a judge may commend
an attorney for the quality of the attorney’s appellate brief and you may be
able to access the brief on WESTLAW. Search for quality briefs using terms such
as “commend,” “quality,” and “brief ” within the same sentence.