October 2009 FYLSE California Baby Bar Exam

These are the questions from the October 2009 Baby Bar Exam (as I remember them).  Please provide more details that you remember.

I completed the essays in numerical order.  I have supplied my own titles:

Essay One: The Political Rally

The facts were that, at political rally attended by 1,000 people, the organizer at the event (in support for a challenger to the mayor) made defamatory comments about the wife of the current mayor.  Based on "largely false" information he heard from a notorious gossip, he told the crowd that the mayor's wife was a snob and a cutthroat who blocked her personal friend's membership to a private women's club.  The mayor's wife had actually supported her friend's membership. The mayor's wife had appeared in public for the first time two days before the event.  The call of the question asked (1.) about the the claims of mayor's wife and (2.)the organizer's defenses.

Essay Two: The Laptop Theft

In trying to recover a gambling debt, a principal sent an email to his agent friend instructing her to recover the debtor's laptop from the debtor's house.  The principal led the agent to believe that the laptop belonged to the principal.  In the email, the principal told her where to find the key under the doormat to the debtor's house. 

The email was intercepted by a third party, without knowledge of the others.  When the agent arrived at the house, the door was open and the third party was ransacking the house.  The agent entered through the open door and startled the third party.  The third party slipped and fell,  banged his head on a table, and ran away. 

The agent searched the house, found the laptop, and decided she wanted the laptop for herself. She put the laptop in her purse.  The agent called the police.  When the police arrived, the agent said that the third party stole the laptop.  When  the police went to the third party's house, they found him dead.

The call of the question asked us to discuss the crimes and the defenses.

Essay Three:  The Luxury Boat

A luxury boat company sent an unsolicited mailing to a prospective customer for an all-expenses paid trip to a hotel next to where a luxury boat was being offered for sale.  The customer came and looked at the boat.  The salesman claimed that the boat was "state of the art" and at the best available price.  He gave her a form to which he had written the name of the boat in the blank.  He wrote her name on the form as well.  In red italics above the customer signature line, there was a statement such that "This offer is made with the understanding that it is accepted only  after the Luxury Boat company approves the sale."  

The customer took the unsigned form home.  A week later, she searched the internet and found out that the boat was not the best price.  She still decided to sign the form and she faxed it back to the company.  Another week later, she did more research and found out that the boat was a discontinued model.  She faxed a revocation.  The same day she received in the mail the form she had signed.  It was stamped "approved" by the company.

The call of the question asked what were the Company's claims against her and on what theories. 

Question 4:  The Loud and Violent Teen

A minor had gotten into trouble for disruptive behavior in school.  A psychologist hired by the school assessed the minor and determined that he had a 90% chance of committing violence on someone in the future.  The parents ignored the warning and sent the minor to stay with his uncle.

At the uncle's house, the minor loudly played his guitar.  The noise disturbed a neighbor who was a therapist counseling patients in his home.  The therapist complained to the uncle.  The uncle told the minor to lower the volume.  The uncle had to leave the house one day and told the minor to keep down the guitar's volume.  When the uncle left the house one day, the minor cranked up the volume.  The therapist came over and asked the minor to turn it down.  The minor told him off.

As the therapist was leaving the minor threw a large heavy rock at him.  The rock missed the therapist but hit a woman walking by.  The woman sustained serious and permanent injuries.

The call of the question asked for:  (1) The therapist's actions against minor, (2) The therapist's actions against the uncle, (3) The woman's actions against the minor, and (4) the woman's actions against the minor's parents.

Remember, "it's just another day!" (Sir Paul McCartney)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_Jao8hMPA


John Secada, "Just Another Day"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yfu9egNOdA


"Peace Train" by Cat Stevens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aYCKfuFI60

"Life is a Highway" by Tim Cochrane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo


"You Are My Starship" by Norman Connors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC3pLlBD0wo


Mr. Tiger Woods,

I feel your pain.  Seriously, dude.  But, as Flava Flav famously declared,

"I Can't Do Nuthin' for Ya' Man!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBlMrGgpwXE


Mr. Woods,

I understand, clearly.  You have an issue.  Here's a tissue. 

It's a hard knock life, my friend.  A billion dollars won't save you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_ex3VGHIM


Mr. Al Green, ":Love and Happiness"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWPDGWP568


The topical elements of this song (A married man with "a wife and two little children at home" who falls in love and tells his young lover that he is conflicted about the relationship) show the timeless nature of Mr. Percy Sledge's rendition of "If Loving You is Wrong...I Don't Want to be Right"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgSbNWl8m6Y

I did not realize that I loved Ellen deGeneres until I just saw this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I6ZYoBuDkk

Here's Carl Carlton:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sl5VurCaIQ

It is patently obvious that the late, great Michael Jackson heavily borrowed Mr. Carl Carlton's riff (supra):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4auq5tlUX4

Money corrupts. Obscene scads and scads of money make some people lose their natural minds!

This photo demonstrates the above point:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-smith/why-is-tiger-woods-in-the_b_377942.html

Hi Sherminator!

It is Monday.  Results are mailed on Friday.  We have nothing to worry about.  If we did well...or if we did poorly...there just ain't nothing we can do about it now!

So relax!  And listen to some tunes!