Category: Writing

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.

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.

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 1997 United States
District Court case from the Northern District of California in which the court
found that a forty-eight-hour search by hospital and coroner for next of kin of
a Danish tourist who had suffered fatal injuries, before harvesting organs of
the tourist, was reasonable and did not give rise to a negligent search claim
on part of the tourist’s parents.

Give the citation to the 2003 United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit case in which thecourt refused to
allow state legislative leaders and the telecommunications union to fi le
amicus curiae briefs because the briefs would cover the same materials covered
by the parties in their briefs and the parties were adequately represented.

Give the citation to the 2004 United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit case in which the court found that the
defendant could be convicted under the Church Arson Prevention Act, where
defendant’s calls to synagogues, in which he threatened to burn them, did
affect interstate commerce

1) Define and give an example of a hard news event
2) Define and give an example of a soft news event
3) List the criteria most often considered to determine newsworthiness.
4) Describe the inverted pyramid style of writing and why most newspapers use it.
5) What are the five W’s and H?
6) Discuss the importance of attribution?
7) Discuss the impact of social media on journalism.
8) What is plagiarism?
9) Why are videos, photos and graphics important to a story?
10) What are gatekeepers and why are they an important part of journalism?

Give the citation to the 2000 case from the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in which the
court found that the fact that one party to a contract mutilated the contract
had the effect of terminating the party’s right of performance by the other
party but did not terminate the contract.

Give the citation to the 2008 case from the
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in which the
court determined that the cruise ship operator did not have a duty to warn
passengers who had disembarked from the cruise ship of the danger of riding
dune buggies.