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Jmol Timing Bait

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

  • 14108_ebike_delivery_sign · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice AYes, because the sign evidence was uncontradicted, so no reasonable jury could find that the policy covers Lydia's injury.

    Why it's attractive

    It treats a sign with no explained purpose as automatically enough to remove the issue from the jury.

    Why it's wrong

    It treats a sign with no explained purpose as automatically enough to remove the issue from the jury.

  • 14108_ebike_delivery_sign · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice BNo, because a motion for judgment as a matter of law must first be made at the close of the plaintiff's case-in-chief.

    Why it's attractive

    It says the motion must be made at the close of the plaintiff's case, but the motion came before submission to the jury.

    Why it's wrong

    It says the motion must be made at the close of the plaintiff's case, but the motion came before submission to the jury.

  • 14108_ebike_delivery_sign · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice DYes, because Lydia waived the issue by not anticipating and rebutting the sign evidence in her case-in-chief.

    Why it's attractive

    It invents a duty to answer a defense before the defendant raises it.

    Why it's wrong

    It invents a duty to answer a defense before the defendant raises it.

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