Dominant Trap A
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 4 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
- Civil Procedure1
- Constitutional Law1
- Contracts1
- CRIMINAL1
Example wrong choices
14492_psalm_lantern_kits · CONTRACTS · Choice ADaniel is entitled to accept any number of the 19 kits and reject the rest, but is not entitled to cancel the contract as to any rejected kits or the lot due on October 24.
Why it's wrong
Choice A is not the credited answer for this item.
14492_psalm_lantern_kits · CONTRACTS · Choice CDaniel is entitled to accept any number of the 19 kits, reject the rest, and cancel the contract both as to any rejected kits and the lot due on October 24.
Why it's wrong
Choice C is not the credited answer for this item.
14492_psalm_lantern_kits · CONTRACTS · Choice DDaniel must accept the 19 kits but is entitled to cancel the rest of the contract.
Why it's wrong
Choice D is not the credited answer for this item.
16161_festival_tablets · CRIMINAL · Choice ANeither Barnabas nor Lydia is guilty of attempting to sell MDMA.
Why it's wrong
Choice A is not the credited answer for this item.
16161_festival_tablets · CRIMINAL · Choice BBarnabas is guilty of attempting to sell MDMA, but Lydia is not.
Why it's wrong
Choice B is not the credited answer for this item.
16161_festival_tablets · CRIMINAL · Choice DBoth Barnabas and Lydia are guilty of attempting to sell MDMA.
Why it's wrong
Choice D is not the credited answer for this item.
22592_house_fellowship_lamb_rite · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice AWhether the lamb rite has been practiced by the fellowship for many years.
Why it's attractive
Tradition is not the same inquiry as reasonableness.
Why it's wrong
Tradition is not the same inquiry as reasonableness.
22592_house_fellowship_lamb_rite · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice BWhether Daniel is sincere in the religious belief that requires the lamb rite.
Why it's attractive
Sincerity asks whether Daniel honestly holds the belief, not whether it is sensible.
Why it's wrong
Sincerity asks whether Daniel honestly holds the belief, not whether it is sensible.
22592_house_fellowship_lamb_rite · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DWhether applying the statute is necessary to protect a compelling state interest.
Why it's attractive
The call asks what the court may not consider, not what must always decide the case.
Why it's wrong
The call asks what the court may not consider, not what must always decide the case.
22863_worship_leader_tortious_interference · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice ANo, because the probate exception reserves to state probate courts the right to adjudicate claims touching a decedent's estate.
Why it's attractive
The probate exception is narrower than "any claim touching a probate matter."
Why it's wrong
The probate exception is narrower than "any claim touching a probate matter."
22863_worship_leader_tortious_interference · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice BNo, because the state probate court found the will to be valid.
Why it's attractive
The state court's will ruling is a merits question, not a jurisdictional one.
Why it's wrong
The state court's will ruling is a merits question, not a jurisdictional one.
22863_worship_leader_tortious_interference · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice DYes, because Margaret's estate contained property located in several different states.
Why it's attractive
The geographic location of estate property does not create federal subject matter jurisdiction.
Why it's wrong
The geographic location of estate property does not create federal subject matter jurisdiction.
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