Event Location Only
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
20606_lydia_festival_venue · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice AThe Eastern District of State J and the Western District of State J.
Why it's attractive
This choice sees that both defendants live in State J, so it grabs the residence bucket. It drops the event bucket, which the venue checklist also requires for a complete all-proper-districts answer.
Why it's wrong
It gives the defendant-residence bucket but omits the event bucket.
Spot it next time
Add the event bucket before selecting a list answer.
20606_lydia_festival_venue · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice BThe Central District of State H.
Why it's attractive
This choice sees the accident district and stops at the most concrete fact. It skips the defendant-residence bucket that also works because both defendants reside in the same state.
Why it's wrong
It gives the event bucket but omits the defendant-residence bucket.
Spot it next time
Ask whether all defendants live in one state and then add each defendant-residence district.
20606_lydia_festival_venue · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice DThe Northern District of State G and the Central District of State H.
Why it's attractive
This choice rewards the impulse to include the plaintiff's home because she chose the lawsuit. The ordinary venue checklist does not use the plaintiff's home, so the added district poisons the list.
Why it's wrong
It adds the plaintiff-home district, which is not a venue bucket here.
Spot it next time
Use the Gold Key: plaintiff home is not a venue bucket in this ordinary private-defendant action.
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