This is a picture of me with my friends Scott and Clarke before a Portland Blazers playoff game in 2009. If a fight had broken out at this moment and I knocked both of them unconscious with my superhuman strength, I could be tried both as a criminal (for battery) and in a civil court (for damages related to the incident, like medical bills). It's a good thing I have the restraint not to commit such actions!
Hi everyone,
I am glad that we are starting to finally get into specifics of the class! I know it might be tedious at first to learn vocabulary from the book, but it is definitely necessary in order to know what we are talking about. Thank you for the participation today.
Soundtrack: “Royals” by Lorde. Selected for today because it is a very popular current song and royals/rulers are people that oversee laws. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 10/2/13:
Tort Report
Student Bill of Rights
What is a Tort?
Torts Chapter Work
Homework: Start reviewing terms. Turn in missing work. Check the blog! Next Tort Report assigned to: Brenda.
Tort Report: We actually had two tort reports today, due to Sarah being able to present hers. They were: TheGuardian.com - Police accused of bias over culling of badgers (brought in by Brendan) and NBCnews.com - Man wrongly imprisoned in murder case wins $13.2 million in civil rights lawsuit. I think the second article may relate to our class a bit more (being in the US and dealing more with people), but both were interesting to talk about. Thanks!
Student Bill of Rights: We continued thinking about various rights that students should have (remember that last class we read this article about how high school students were being treated like prisoners) and came up with the following:
1. The right to defend yourself.
2. A process to evaluate and possibly remove ineffective educators
3. No cruel or unusual punishment.
4. Students will be treated equally, regardless of distinction.
5. Students should have the ability to self-govern.
6. Students have freedom of speech.
7. Students should be able to wear whatever they want.
8. Students should be able to choose what work to do.
9. The campus should be open for students to come and go as they please.
10. Students should have the ability to organize groups that are related to any topic they want.
I really appreciated the discussion that these generated as we were thinking about them! In the future, I might ask you to recall this for a test question, or something along those lines.
What is A Tort? Ahh, yes. Finally, we are getting into the details of the class. To begin, I asked the class to think of all the actions that could potentially result in a lawsuit. We created quite a list! This was to get the that there are many different possible lawsuits as a legal remedy for a situation.
Torts Chapter Work: Next, I started going through Chapter 18 in our Street Law textbook (there is an in class set), which is an introduction to torts. We went through a few situations and analyzed whether or not it could be a viable lawsuit as I read the first pages of the chapter aloud. The rest of the class was student directed, as it was going through as much of the rest of the chapter as possible, writing out definitions (aside from what we already know), and attempting to solve the problems presented.
Next class, we will continue on this and talk more about the concept of torts and how they work in practice with examples.
What is A Tort? Ahh, yes. Finally, we are getting into the details of the class. To begin, I asked the class to think of all the actions that could potentially result in a lawsuit. We created quite a list! This was to get the that there are many different possible lawsuits as a legal remedy for a situation.
Torts Chapter Work: Next, I started going through Chapter 18 in our Street Law textbook (there is an in class set), which is an introduction to torts. We went through a few situations and analyzed whether or not it could be a viable lawsuit as I read the first pages of the chapter aloud. The rest of the class was student directed, as it was going through as much of the rest of the chapter as possible, writing out definitions (aside from what we already know), and attempting to solve the problems presented.
Next class, we will continue on this and talk more about the concept of torts and how they work in practice with examples.
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