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  • Contracts: Stonestreet v. Oil Co.

    Learn about an oil company swindling a landowner out of their well.

    Supreme Court of North Carolina 1946

    1:34 – Case start

    https://casetext.com/case/stonestreet-v-oil-co

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    7 min
  • Contracts: Kirksey v Kirksey

    Learn about more about consideration and a man who gave false hopes to his brother's widow.

    Supreme Court of Alabama 1845

    1:34 - Case start

    https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/2227

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirksey_v._Kirksey

    This paper gives (a lot) more back story: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=899002

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    8 min
  • Contracts: Sullivan v O'Connor

    Topics: Contract Remedies

    Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1973


    Damages Spectrum:

    Restitution <---> Reliance <---> Expectation


    Restitution Damages:

    The $622 she paid for surgery


    Expectation Damages:

    Difference between her messed up nose and "beautiful" nose 

    + Pain and suffering for third surgery 

    + Any hospital expenses for third surgery 

    + Difference between her earnings with messed up nose and earnings she would have had with "beautiful" nose


    Reliance Damages:

    Difference between her messed up nose and pre-surgery nose

    + Pain and suffering for first two surgeries

    + Any hospital expenses for first two surgeries

    + Pain and suffering for third surgery

    + Any hospital expenses for third surgery

    + Lost earnings due to messed up nose

    + The $622 she paid for surgery 


    Coursera Lecture: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/contracts-1/sullivan-v-o-connor-nose-job-kjokM?authMode=login

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    23 min

About Law School TA

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Stanford Law graduate Kasey Baughan takes you through the first year of law school. We will start with a brief overview of the US legal system, and then move to contract law, tort law, criminal law, and the other subjects you'd typically cover in the first year of law school.