MSU COLLEGE OF LAW JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & SECURITIES LAW
2013-2014 Mid-Year Write-On Competition
Bluebook Examination
This is an “open” Bluebook examination. You are expected to use The Bluebook: A Uniform
System of Citation (19th ed. 2010) to complete this examination. You do not need to look up any
of the sources in the examination. Please place your Fall 2013 exam permit number in the top
right corner of each page. If you are a transfer student or otherwise do not have a Fall 2013 exam
permit number then please use your PID. Corrections should be handwritten in INK. Also,
please write the Bluebook rule number(s) used for each correction in the left-hand margin next to
each footnote. Use the proofreading marks, found on the Proofreading Marks Sheet, for all
corrections.
This Bluebook examination must be submitted electronically as a scanned document. Please
email the scanned copy to jbsl@law.msu.edu. You can either print a blank exam out or pick up a
hard copy from the bulletin board outside room 209.
Instructions: Treat all of the citations below as though they appear in a footnote within a
scholarly journal. Make the proper changes in INK and indicate the corresponding Bluebook
rule(s) in the left-hand margin. NB: Failing the Bluebook exam is the most common reason
applicants are disqualified. Be thorough.
1. Hasan v. GPM Investments, LLC, No. 3:07CV1779, 2012 WL 3725693 at 4 (Dist. Conn.
Aug. 27, 2012).
2. See, e.g., Dan H. Willoughby, Jr., & Gregory R. Antine, Sanctions for E-Discovery
Violations by the Numbers, 60 Duke L.J. 789 790-08 (2010).
3. Letter, Alexander J. Passantino, Acting Administrator, Department of Labor, Wage
and Hour Div. (January 14, 2009), available at
http://www.dol.gov/whd/opinion/FLSA/2009/2009_01_14_03_FLSA.htm#.UPVhSifBG
8B [hereinafter Opinion Letter] (Approved the retroactive application of the fluctuating
workweek.).
4. AK Stat. Ann. § 26-25-13 (2013)
5. Gonzales v. Raich, 545 US 1, 43 (2005) (O’Connor, J. dissent) (quoting New State Ice
Company v. Liebmann, 285 US 262, 311 (1932) (Brandeis, J. dissent).
6. See generally ALEX Y. SEITA, Uncertainty and Contract Law, 46 PITT. L.R. 75 (1984)
7. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Walt Disney Productions (1954).
8. Sam Raine Constr. Co., Inc. v. Lakeview Estates, Inc., 407 So.2d 542, 545 (S. Ct. Ala.
1981), affirmed, 300 F.2d 184 (11th Cir. 1982), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 224 (1982).
9. Tiffany A. Ito and John T Cacioppo, The Psychophysiology of Utility Appraisals, in
Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology 470 (Daniel Kahneman, et al eds.
Harvard University Press revised edition 1999) (1966).
10. See Randy E. Barnett, . . . And Contractual Consent, 3 So. Cal. Interdisciplinary L. J. 421
(1993); see generally Richard A. Posner, Let Us Never Blame a Contract Breaker, 107
Michigan L. Rev. 1349 (2009).
11. See Pension Commn. of Univ. of Montreal Pension Plan v. Banc of Amer. Securities,
685 F.Supp. 2d 456, 462 (S.D. N.Y. 2010); Jones v. Bremen High School Dist. 228, No.
08C3548, 2010 WL 2106640, at 6 (N.D. Ill., Jun. 25, 2010).
12. Andrew Scott Dulberg, The Popcorn Lung Case Study: A Recipe for Regulation? 33
NYU Rev. of L. & Social Change 87, 94 n. 101 (2009).
13. Fla. Const. art. V §5.
14. Jim Johannson, Campaign Finance Reform: Citizens’ United on Steroids, 87 Fordham J.
Corporate & Financial Law 22, 44 (2013).
15. Interview with J. Ryan Doyle, CEO of Domino’s Pizza, Ann Arbor, Mi. (Jul. 15, 2004).
16. Benjamin Weiser, Terrorism Law Is a Niche for a Deepening Pool of Defenders in New
York, N.Y. TIMES, November 25, 2012, at A12, at
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/nyregion/expertise-in-terror-law-is-a-growingniche-in-new-york.html (2012).
17. See Richard L. Marcus, The Impact of Computers on the Legal Profession: “Evolution or
Revolution?,” 2008 NO. ILL. L. REV. 1827, 1844, 1867 (2008).
18. Pete Mitchell, Criminals in Judges’ Robes, 86 Judicial Reform Quarterly 225, 268,
reprinted in Wall Street Journal, Jul. 13, 1986, at A12.