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ELEMENTS B1 & B2 POWER POINT SLIDES Class #9 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 Wednesday, September 7, 2016 .
MUSIC: SERGEI PROKOFIEV, PETER & THE WOLF (1936) Chamber Orchestra of Europe (2007)conductOR: CLAUDIO ABBADO NARRATOR: STING THURSDAY: BOTH CLASSES HERE No Reserved Seating
Liesner v. Wanie: Context 1914: Deaths • Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Civil War Hero) • John Muir (Naturalist) • Jacob Riis (Journalist/Author) • 19th Century Industrialists • CW Post (Grape Nuts & Other Cereals) • George Westinghouse (Railroad Brake and Electronics) • FrederikWeyerhauser (Timber & Paper)
Liesner v. Wanie: Context 1914: Births • Alec Guiness • Joe Louis • Joe DiMaggio • Ralph Ellison • Danny Thomas • Dylan Thomas
Liesner v. Wanie: Context 1914: Introduced in U.S. • term “Birth Control” (coined by Margaret Sanger) • First Blood Transfusion • Doublemint chewing gum • Elastic Brassiere • Federal Trade Commission • Company that will become Greyhound Bus • Mother’s Day (by Congr. Resolution)
Liesner v. Wanie: Context 1914: Introduced in U.S. • New Republic Magazine • Panama Canal • Pygmalion by GB Shaw • Rookie Pitcher: Babe Ruth • Tarzan of the Apes • Teletype Machine • Traffic Lights using red-green signals
Liesner v. Wanie: Context 1914: World War I 102 Years Ago Yesterday: Sept. 5: 1st Battle of the Marne Begins • NE of Paris, French 6th Army Attacks Germans Allied Victory (Keeps German Army out of Paris)
Liesner v. Wanie: Context 1914: World War I 102 Years Ago Yesterday: Sept. 5: 1st Battle of the Marne Begins • NE of Paris, French 6th Army Attacks Germans Allied “Victory” • Two Million Soldiers Participate
Liesner v. Wanie: Context 1914: World War I 102 Years Ago Yesterday: Sept. 5: 1st Battle of the Marne Begins • NE of Paris, French 6th Army Attacks Germans Allied “Victory” • Two Million Soldiers Participate • 500,000 Killed or Wounded
Liesner v. Wanie: Context 1914: World War I Sept. 5: 1st Battle of the Marne Begins • NE of Paris, French Attacks Germans Allied “Victory” • Two Million Soldiers Participate • 500,000 Killed or Wounded Dec. 24-25: Christmas Truce
Liesner v. Wanie: Context 1914: World War I June 28: Archduke Francis-Ferdinand (Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Throne) Assassinated in Sarajevo: “The Shot Heard Round the World”
Liesner v. Wanie Cf. “Some Shots Into a Brush Pile” (LiesnerTrial Transcript) featuring KRYPTON & URANIUM
Liesner Trial Transcript Note Anderson testimony (p.17): “REPLEVIED” Suggests replevin was cause of action. (= Common law action for return of personal property)
LiesnerTrial Transcript: DQ1.19: Best Evidence for Each Side (Krypton) Liesners’ Attys must have argued: • L-Boys did mortally wound wolf • L-Boys did continue pursuit (Uranium) Wanie’sAttys must have argued: • Uncertainthat L-Boys mortally wounded wolf • L-Boys did not continue pursuit TO WHITEBOARD
Liesner Trial Transcript: DQ1.20Trial Judge’s Perspective • To make this decision, Judge must believe: • Abdomen shot was mortal wound (“gut shot”; wolf’s behavior) • Only shot that could have made that wound was Ed Liesner shot (bullet/angle) Questions/Concerns?
Liesner Trial DQ1.20: Trial Judge’s Perspective • Trial Judge must have believed: • Abdomen shot was mortal wound (“gut shot”; wolf’s behavior) • Only evidence of shot that could have made that wound was Liesner shot (bullet/angle) • Keep in Mind • Judge might have experience with guns/hunting • Judge could see pelt & holes • Not every factual dispute is material to outcome. • Whether there was “manure” in abdominal cavity • Whether Wanie tried to hide bullet hole
Liesner Trial Transcript: DQ1.21 Uranium Why Bother? Why do you think the Liesner family chose to bring this lawsuit?
Liesner Trial: DQ1.21 Uranium LiesnerFamily Motivations? Ideas include: • Father Acting as Good Parent; Maybe Related to Either: • Shooting = important coming-of-age moment for boys (1st wolf seen/killed) • Father protecting boys against perceived bully/cheater • Maybe reflective of larger social/economic split in community
Liesner Trial Transcript: DQ1.21 Uranium Why Bother? Why do you think Wanie expended the resources needed to take the case to the state Supreme Court?
Liesner Trial: DQ1.21 Uranium Wanie Motivations? Ideas include: • Defending Liesner father’s challenge to his integrity (manure/patch) • Again, maybe reflective of larger split in community • Interest as regular hunter in clarifying rules/fixing bad result (although concedes prevailing rule)
Liesner Trial: DQ1.22 Relevance of additional facts found in trial record to how you should read/use the appellate opinion? • Helps you to understand what happened BUTnormally unavailable to lawyers. • Meaning of written opinion: • Determined by what WiscSCtchooses to include • What doesn’t go into opinion isn’t part of opinion (cf. Las Vegas)
Back to OXYGEN for DQ1.18 &Liesner“Prevailing Rule”NOTE: Thursday we’ll do Intro to Shaw Brief (OXYGEN) before DQs 1.23-1.25 (RADIUM)Fortunately, O2 on Thursday!!
Liesner DQ1.18: Oxygen “Prevailing rule” (Three Formulations): • (1) substantially permanently deprive [animal] of liberty (SPDL) • (2) [have the animal] so in their power that escape improbable, if not impossible • (3) [bring the animal] under control so that actual possession practically inevitable
Liesner DQ1.18(b): Oxygen • (1) substantiallypermanently deprive [animal] of liberty • (2) [have the animal] so in their power that escape improbable, if not impossible • (3) [bring the animal] under control so that actual possession practicallyinevitable All three formulations contain an imprecise word meaning something like “almost completely.”
Liesner DQ1.18 (b): Oxygen COMPARE POSSIBLE RULES • Actual Possession Likely • Actual Possession Practically Inevitable • Actual Possession Inevitable Policies Supporting Choice of #2 v. #3?
Liesner DQ1.18 (b): Oxygen • Actual Possession Practically Inevitable • Actual Possession Inevitable Policies Supporting Choice of #2 v. #3 Include • Too difficult to meet standard for #3 • Discourages hunters fewer kills • Doesn’t reward most-of the-way labor • Impossible-to-meet standard may yield disrespect for law, self-help; violence (B2: Wisnoski: breakdown of peace and order as people like Liesners try to enforce perceived “rights.”)
Liesner DQ1.18 (b): Oxygen COMPARE POSSIBLE RULES • Actual Possession Likely • Actual Possession Practically Inevitable • Actual Possession Inevitable Policies Supporting Choice of #2 v. #1?
Liesner DQ1.18 (b): Oxygen • Actual Possession Likely • Actual Possession Practically Inevitable Policies Supporting Choice of #2 v. #1 Include • #1 = Too uncertain in application • Yields too many disputes/lawsuits (v. higher claim threshold for #2) • May reward ineffective/insufficient labor (too easy to meet)
Liesner DQ1.18: Prevailing Rule (Oxygen) • (1) substantiallypermanently deprive [animal] of liberty • (2) [have the animal] so in their power that escape improbable, if not impossible • (3) [bring the animal] under control so that actual possession practicallyinevitable 1.18(a): Meaning of Key Language? 1.18(c): Application to Pierson Facts?
Liesner DQ1.18 (a): Oxygen Property Rights in Animal IF: • (1) substantiallypermanently deprived [animal] of its liberty MEANING OF LANGUAGE Significance of Two Separate Adverbs?