Examples and Explanations: Remedies, 2nd Edition (Examples & Explanations)

Book Description:
In Examples and Explanations: Remedies, Richard L. Hasen clearly and methodically explains the policies and rules of remedies, using examples to show how lawyers and judges apply the rules and formulate solutions in legal disputes. Through the Examples and Explanations pedagogy, students can then practice applying the rules themselves as they come up with viable solutions for a variety of realistic fact patterns. Demystifying Remedies with the proven-effective Examples and Explanations pedagogy, this concise study guide features: - A student-friendly writing style, plus examples, charts, and illustrations topical coverage to complement most remedies courses, with damages, injunctions, and restitution, as well as declaratory judgments, punitive damages, and remedial defenses stand-alone chapters that can be studied in any order; - Clear instruction and visual aids that show students how to do the math to compute compensatory damages, present value, and constructive trusts; - Longer essay questions in the final chapter test students' mastery of the subject and provide tips for crafting a remedies exam essay; - Discussion of major remedies cases, such as Hadley v. Baxendale, Walker v. City of Birmingham, and Sullivan v. O Connor; - Analyses of remedies issues under Article 2 of the UCC and the common law. New to the Second Edition: - Detailed treatment of newly-added provisions of the draft Restatement of the Law Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment; - The eBay standard for permanent injunctions, and how it has been considered by lower courts and commentators; - Updates on statutes of limitations issues in light of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; - Discussion of the recent Supreme Court Exxon Shipping and Phillip Morris cases on punitive damages.