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This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 10 active questions. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”

Subject distribution

Constitutional Law5
Real Property3
Civil Procedure1
Contracts1

Example wrong choices

first 20

14231_hymn-trailer-premium · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice ANo, because the different theft rates in the two areas provide a rational basis for the different premiums.
Why it's attractive
A reaches scrutiny before asking whether equal protection reaches this private defendant.
Why it's wrong
A reaches scrutiny before asking whether equal protection reaches this private defendant.
14231_hymn-trailer-premium · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice CYes, because the higher theft rate in Martha's neighborhood shows that the county sheriff is not giving residents there the equal protection of the laws.
Why it's attractive
The suit targets the insurer, but C turns the case into a sheriff-protection claim.
Why it's wrong
The suit targets the insurer, but C turns the case into a sheriff-protection claim.
14231_hymn-trailer-premium · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DYes, because charging a higher premium based on a customer's residential area is inherently discriminatory.
Why it's attractive
D treats unfair private pricing as automatically constitutional discrimination.
Why it's wrong
D treats unfair private pricing as automatically constitutional discrimination.
14237_harvest_table_radio_segment · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice ANo, because the state's accreditation and partial funding of the institute are sufficient to make the state an active participant in Mary's discharge.
Why it's attractive
The choice treats real state contacts as enough even though the firing itself has no state link.
Why it's wrong
The choice treats real state contacts as enough even though the firing itself has no state link.
14237_harvest_table_radio_segment · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice BNo, because the U.S. Constitution provides a cause of action against any state-accredited school that restricts freedom of speech as a condition of employment.
Why it's attractive
The word any creates an overbroad bridge from accreditation to a constitutional lawsuit.
Why it's wrong
The word any creates an overbroad bridge from accreditation to a constitutional lawsuit.
14237_harvest_table_radio_segment · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DYes, because the First and Fourteenth Amendments affirmatively protect the institute's right to employ only instructors who share and communicate its views.
Why it's attractive
It grants the motion but changes the reason from Mary's missing state action to an affirmative right for the institute.
Why it's wrong
It grants the motion but changes the reason from Mary's missing state action to an affirmative right for the institute.
14242_lydia_linen_kiosk · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice BUnconstitutional, because economic benefits or burdens imposed by legislatures through grandfather provisions have consistently been declared per se violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Why it's attractive
The absolute phrase 'consistently been declared invalid' is too strong for economic grandfather lines.
Why it's wrong
The absolute phrase 'consistently been declared invalid' is too strong for economic grandfather lines.
14242_lydia_linen_kiosk · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice CConstitutional, because it is narrowly tailored to implement the city's compelling interest in reducing pedestrian congestion and therefore satisfies the strict scrutiny test applicable to such cases.
Why it's attractive
The answer uses strict scrutiny even though the stem shows an ordinary commercial classification.
Why it's wrong
The answer uses strict scrutiny even though the stem shows an ordinary commercial classification.
14242_lydia_linen_kiosk · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DUnconstitutional, because the relationship between the legitimate purpose of the ordinance and the conduct it regulates is so tenuous and underinclusive that the ordinance fails the substantial relationship test applicable to such cases.
Why it's attractive
The answer treats underinclusiveness as decisive under substantial-relationship review, but the item routes to rational basis.
Why it's wrong
The answer treats underinclusiveness as decisive under substantial-relationship review, but the item routes to rational basis.
14311_psalm_slides_field_kit · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice ANo, because the equipment is primarily used by the employees in carrying out federal duties, so the tax is a tax on activities performed on behalf of the United States.
Why it's attractive
The choice talks about the equipment's primary official use, but the tax targets personal-use value.
Why it's wrong
The choice talks about the equipment's primary official use, but the tax targets personal-use value.
14311_psalm_slides_field_kit · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice CYes, because exempting federal employees from this tax would deny other residents the equal protection of the laws.
Why it's attractive
It changes the permission rule from tax immunity to equal protection.
Why it's wrong
It changes the permission rule from tax immunity to equal protection.
14311_psalm_slides_field_kit · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DNo, because taxing the personal-use value of equipment furnished by the federal government is a tax on the United States.
Why it's attractive
Federal ownership of the kit does not itself make an employee-income tax a tax on the United States.
Why it's wrong
Federal ownership of the kit does not itself make an employee-income tax a tax on the United States.
14451_psalm_trail_quitclaim · CONTRACTS · Choice Alose, because Barnabas suffered no legal detriment in executing the quitclaim deed.
Why it's attractive
The choice denies value to the exact act Lydia requested.
Why it's wrong
The choice denies value to the exact act Lydia requested.
14451_psalm_trail_quitclaim · CONTRACTS · Choice Blose, because Barnabas knew before the agreement with Lydia that his claimed access right was doubtful.
Why it's attractive
The choice points the Gold Key backward: doubt is treated as the reason the bargain fails.
Why it's wrong
The choice points the Gold Key backward: doubt is treated as the reason the bargain fails.
14451_psalm_trail_quitclaim · CONTRACTS · Choice Cwin, because Lydia, by paying the first $1,500 installment, is estopped to deny that her agreement with Barnabas is an enforceable contract.
Why it's attractive
This choice reaches for a substitute theory after the bargain itself supplies the answer.
Why it's wrong
This choice reaches for a substitute theory after the bargain itself supplies the answer.
14950_lydia_calligraphy_foreclosure · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice AYes, because Lydia reacquired title to the building.
Why it's attractive
The answer points to later title ownership instead of the earlier lien-cutting event.
Why it's wrong
The answer points to later title ownership instead of the earlier lien-cutting event.
14950_lydia_calligraphy_foreclosure · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice CNo, because the due-on-sale provision in Lydia's mortgage to First Harbor Bank eliminated Cedar Credit's junior mortgage lien.
Why it's attractive
The answer says no, but it assigns the result to a due-on-sale clause rather than foreclosure.
Why it's wrong
The answer says no, but it assigns the result to a due-on-sale clause rather than foreclosure.
14950_lydia_calligraphy_foreclosure · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice DYes, because of the doctrine of estoppel by deed.
Why it's attractive
The answer imports estoppel by deed even though the stem is about recorded mortgage priority and foreclosure.
Why it's wrong
The answer imports estoppel by deed even though the stem is about recorded mortgage priority and foreclosure.
15041_scripture_print_studio_lien · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice AYes, because Lydia received the studio lot by quitclaim gift rather than as a purchaser for value.
Why it's attractive
Lydia's value status does not connect to Martha's title-insurance policy.
Why it's wrong
Lydia's value status does not connect to Martha's title-insurance policy.
15041_scripture_print_studio_lien · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice CNo, because Martha conveyed the studio lot to Timothy before Lydia made the claim.
Why it's attractive
It treats sale as an automatic cutoff and ignores the warranty-liability continuation trigger.
Why it's wrong
It treats sale as an automatic cutoff and ignores the warranty-liability continuation trigger.

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