Contact Information: Office: 202-909-6701
E-mail: judgelorensmith@gmail.com
NOTE: ALL STUDENTS REGISTERED FOR THIS CLASS ARE TO SEND THEIR E-MAIL
ADDRESS TO judgelorensmith@gmail.com and SIGN UP ON TWEN PRIOR TO 8/19/15.
Contact Information: Office: 703-966-1999, Text: 703-966-1999
E-mail: Maggie.earnest@longandfoster.com
Office Hours: By appointment.
Required Text: Ames, Chafee, and Re on Remedies by Sherwin, Eisenberg & Re (Foundation Press
2012)
Schedule – Tuesday and Thursday 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Attendance: In accordance with GMUSL policy, you must attend 80% of classes.
Exam & Grading: The final examination will be multiple choice, closed-book. No materials may be brought in to the examination room. Grades will be based primarily on the final examination; however, we reserve the right to increase or decrease a grade by a half letter (+ or -) based upon class participation.
Assignments as follows. Additional outside readings may be added. The syllabus, which may be modified during the semester, will be updated electronically.
Week
(Dates)
Pages Topic CASES
1 (8/20,
8/25)
2-19
248-278
Riggs v. Palmer; Graf v. Hope Bldg.
Corp.; Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo;
J.R. v. M.P.; Strank v. Mercy Hospital of
Johnstown; Group Mexicano de
Desarrollo, S.A. v. Alliance Bond Fund,
Inc., et al.; Great-West Life & Annuity
Insurance Company v. Janette Knudson and Eric Knudson; Mutual Life Insurance
Co. v. Newton

2 (8/27) 278-291 Right to Trial by Jury Colclasure v. Kansas City Life;
Chauffeurs, Teamsters and Helpers,
Local 391 v. Terry; Marseilles Hydro
Power v. Marseilles Land
2 (9/1)
4 (9/10,
9/15)
5 (9/17,
9/22)
6 (9,24,
9/29)
7 (10/1,
10/6)
292-296 (Begin) Enforcement of
Equitable Decrees – Duty to
Obey
3 (9/3, 9/8) 304-330 (Cont'd) Enforcement of
Equitable Decrees – Persons
Bound by the Decree,
Contempt
332-356 Masters and Receivers;
Writs of Assistance and
Sequestration; Decrees as to
Foreign Property;
Foreclosure and Partition
356-371
396-407
407-420
426-434
442-449
449-469
472-484
Injunctions against Foreign
Suits; Injunctions and
Federalism; (Begin) The
Injunction
(Cont'd) The Injunction;
Modification of Injunctions
Interlocutory Injunctions;
Measure of Injunctive Relief
The Cape May and Schellinger's Landing
Railroad Co. v. Johnson; U.S. v. United
Mine Workers of America
Lord Wellesley v. Earl of Mornington; Rigas v. Livingston; Paramount Pictures v. Carol
Publishing; United States v. Hall;
International Union, United Mine Workers of
America v. Bagwell; Chadwick v. Janecka;
Pounders v. Watson
Note case Reeves v. Crownshield;
Madden v. Rosseter; Perez v. Boston
Housing; Hamilton v Nakai; Shaw v.
Wright; Alpern v. Coe; Penn v. Lord
Baltimore; Deschenes v. Tallman;
Burnley v. Stevenson; McElreath v.
McElreath; Eaton v. McCall; Wimer v.
Wimer
Lord Portarlington v. Soulby; Castanho v.
Brown & Root (U.K.) Ltd.; Kaepa , Inc. v.
Achilles Corporation; Dobson v. Pearce;
James v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad Co.;
Donovan v. City of Dallas; Vane v. Lord
Barnard; Foulkes v. Hay; Karls v. Alexandra
Realty Co.; State of Tennessee v. Feezell;
Town of Monroe v. Renz
FTC v. Accusearch; AW Chesterton v.
Chesterton; Wheelock v. Noonan; Lucy
Webb Hayes National Training School v.
Geoghegan; Peters v. Archambault;
Campbell v. Seaman; note case Tushbant v. Greenfield's Inc.; Boomer v. Atlantic
Cement Co.; Ladner v. Siegel; Sawyer v.
Davis; Jefferson v. Big Horn County
Abbott Laboratories v. Mead Johnson &
Company; Coyne-Delany Co. v. Capital
Development Board; Friends for All Children
Inc. v. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation;
Collins v. Wayne Iron Works; 205 Corp. v.
Brandow; Calvin Klein v. Parfums de
Coeur; Merrill Lynch v. Stidham

8 (10/8,
10/15)
9 (10/20,
10/22)
10 (10/27,
10/29)
11 (11/3,
11/5)
12 (11/10,
11/12)
484-494
497-501
503-512
519-527
531-561
(Cont'd) Measure of
Injunctive Relief; Specific
Performance of Contracts
(Cont'd) Specific
Performance of Contracts
575-624 Rescission, Reformation and other Forms of Equitable
Relief
EEOC v. Wilson; Zappaunbulso v.
Zappaunbulso; CPC v. Skippy; Hutton v.
Gliksburg; Tower City Grain v. Richman;
Kitchen v. Herring; note case Eastern Rolling
Mill Co. v. Michlovitz; Rubinstein v.
Rubinstein; Van Wagner Advertising Corp. v.
S & M Enterprises; DeRivafinoli v. Corsett;
Lumley v. Wagner
Dalton v. Educational Testing Service,
Appellant; Kunzman v. Thorsen; Walgren v.
Dolan; Shay v. Penrose; Skelly Oil v.
Ashmore; Dixon v. Salvation Army; Billy
William Builders & Developers, Inc. v.
Hillerich
NY Life v. Johnson; Hart v. Steel Products;
Mutual of Omaha v. Russell; note case
Fletcher v. Bealey; Wathen v. Brown;
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry. v.
Wallace
784-818 Remedial Defenses; Laches;
Statutes of Limitation;
Estoppel; Equitable
Defenses
In re Swine Flu; Environmental Defense
Fund v. Alexander; Barry v. Donnelly;
Carmen v. Fox Film Corp.; Claire v. Rue de
Paris, Inc.; note case Seagirt Realty Corp. v.
Chazanof
635-660
682-703
The Prevention of Unjust
Enrichment; Measure of the
Restitution Interest;
Grounds for Restitution
Pilot Life Ins. v. Cudd; Owen v. Tate; Seegers v. Sprague; Kossian v. American National;
Earhart v. William Low Co.; Sharp v.
Kosmalski; Olwell v. Nye; Somerville v.
Jacobs
13 (11/17,
11/19)
14 (11/24,
12/1)
42-62
78-93
109-122
126-140
153-172
213-216
753-759
Principles of Damages;
Damages for Breach of
Contract; Damages for
Tortious Conduct
Limitations on Damages
Punitive Damages
Clark v. Marsiglia; Roberts v. Pilot Freight
Carriers, Inc.; In re World Com, Inc.;
Indiana State Symphony v. Ziedonis; Helfend v. So. CA Rapid Transit District; GE v.
Lowe's; Space Master v. Worcester; Matter of
Rothko's Estate; Varjabedian v. City of
Madera
Glendale v. U.S.; Bumann v.. Maure;
Coghlan v. Wellcraft Marine; Freund v.
Washington Square Press; BMW v. Gore