Anchor Gap Procedural Prerequisites
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Civil Procedure1
Example wrong choices
14148_vineyard-sanctions · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice BYes, because Hannah's complaint did not make it apparent on its face that the legal theory was supported by existing law or a nonfrivolous argument for extending it.
Why it's attractive
Requires Gold Key: Rule 11 does not require complaint to affirmatively display legal basis on face; certification is implicit in signature
Why it's wrong
Requires Gold Key: Rule 11 does not require complaint to affirmatively display legal basis on face; certification is implicit in signature
14148_vineyard-sanctions · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice CNo, because Barnabas did not allege that any factual assertion in Hannah's complaint was inaccurate.
Why it's attractive
Silver Key: When two No answers survive, lock which reason Rule 11 actually enforces
Why it's wrong
Silver Key: When two No answers survive, lock which reason Rule 11 actually enforces
14148_vineyard-sanctions · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice DYes, because Hannah had no good-faith basis for her claim under any existing law at the time of filing.
Why it's attractive
CUT: stem explicitly says the law was 'unresolved'; D flatly contradicts this stated fact
Why it's wrong
CUT: stem explicitly says the law was 'unresolved'; D flatly contradicts this stated fact
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