Grant Result Is Enough
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
19721_jonah_whale_float · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice AGrant the motion, because a court would be unlikely to award more than $75,000 in damages on these facts.
Why it's attractive
This choice gives the same grant result and makes the damages feel too speculative. The breaker is that likely recovery is not the amount-in-controversy standard and not the claim-sufficiency defect.
Why it's wrong
This invents a likely-recovery amount-in-controversy standard and does not resolve the claim-sufficiency defect.
Spot it next time
Ask whether the reason is the actual motion defect.
19721_jonah_whale_float · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice BDeny the motion, because there is no indication that it is impossible for recovery to exceed $75,000.
Why it's attractive
This choice states the amount-in-controversy frame students remember from diversity jurisdiction. The breaker is that the motion is granted because the complaint fails to state false imprisonment, not because federal jurisdiction is missing.
Why it's wrong
This uses the amount-in-controversy frame when the operative defect is failure to state false imprisonment.
Spot it next time
Separate jurisdiction survival from claim survival.
19721_jonah_whale_float · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice DDeny the motion, because the complaint gives MannaJoy notice of the claim being asserted.
Why it's attractive
This choice leans on the familiar notice-pleading idea. The breaker is that notice does not cure a complaint that pleads facts defeating the selected claim.
Why it's wrong
This supplies notice but does not answer the complaint-negates-element problem.
Spot it next time
Ask whether notice also shows entitlement to relief.
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