Essay - Legal Questions Week 4 2. the Case is not Moot....

Legal Questions

Week 4

2. The case is not moot. First, a federal court has the power to determine the legality of a challenged action as long as the government in question h***** not taken steps ***** make that type ***** action illegal. Furthermore, the city enacted a similar ordinance, which demonstrated its intention to continue the action in question.

*****. Piper would lose on her claims of judicial immunity. The doctrine ***** judicial immunity only applies to judges engaged in their official capacity. Although at*****rneys are officers of the court, they are not judges and can***** claim judicial immunity. However, if ***** interposed other defenses, she might be able to defeat Aramy's lawsuit.

7. No. The political *****s doctrine requires several d*****ferent hurdles. The first hurdle is whether the Constitution has specifically given power over the *****sue in question to a cert*****in branch of the *****. The Constitution gives Congress ***** power to create a uniform rule of n*****turalization, but does not mention anything about specialized acts like the Nationality Act of 1940. *****, ***** intervention by the At*****rney General indicates that Congress did not have the final ability to act regarding ***** Nationality Act of *****, which means that the issue cannot be considered a nonjustici***** ***** question.

8. While personal opinion ***** that Judge Stump should not be ***** immune under ***** circumstances, research reveals ***** the doctrine of absolute judicial ***** provided him with immunity in ***** described suit. The reason ***** was that under the doctr*****e of ***** immunity, judges are absolutely immune from suit for any action undertaken in an official *****, regardless of whe*****r those actions are tortuous, malicious, or illegal.

Week 5

2. First, the Parkers were contractually obligated to pay the late fees because ***** fees were not exorbitant and ***** part ***** the parties' lease contract. However, unless the lease contract specifically says that the late fees could be charged as additional rent, then the landlord could not consider the ***** fees ***** rent. If the late fees ***** be considered additional *****, *****n the Parker's failure ***** pay the late ***** cannot ***** used as a basis to evict the *****.

7. The parents and the child probably should not be permitted to rec***** for emotional distress, although ***** would ***** entitled ***** recover for actual damages. Infliction of emotional ***** is an intentional tort, which requires a plaintiff to establish that a defendant acted ***** a reckless disreg*****rd ***** the likelihood of causing emotional distress ***** that the Squibb's conduct was outrageous. *****refore, if Squibb knew the drug would cause birth defects and did not warn people, it might be responsible for ***** distress. However, if Squibb was not aware that its ***** *****d birth defects, its conduct ***** not ***** and would ***** support emotional distress *****.

8. The court ***** not order spec*****ic performance. *****, the Giants ***** not have clean hands, because ********** entered into a secret contract with Flowers, designed to ***** the Sugar