Remedies (3 credits)
Professor: Judge Loren A. Smith
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 1/5/15.
Professor: Margaret M. Earnest
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, 10:00 am – 11:15 am, Hazel Hall
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.
SYLLABUS
Week
(Dates)
Pages
Topic
Cases
REMEDIES: LEGAL
& EQUITABLE
1
(1/6,
1/8)
2-19
Introduction
248-278
Origins of Equity; Merger of
Law and Equity
Riggs v. Palmer; Graf v. Hope Building
Corp; Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo;
J.R. v. M.P.; Strank v. Mercy Hospital of
Johnstown; Grupo 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
(1/13)
278-291
Right to Trial by Jury
Colclasure v. Kansas City Life;
Chauffeurs, Teamsters and Helpers, Local
No. 391 v. Terry; Marseilles Hydro Power
v. Marseilles Land
EQUITY POWERS
OF COURTS
2
(1/15)
292-296
(Begin) Enforcement of
Equitable Decrees Duty to Obey
3
(1/20,
1/22)
304-330
(Cont’d) Enforcement of
Equitable Decrees Persons Bound by the
Decree, Contempt
4
(1/27,
1/29)
332-356
Masters & Receivers; Writs
of Assistance and
Sequestration; Decrees as to
Foreign Property;
Foreclosure and Partition
356-371
396-407
Injunctions against Foreign
Suits; Injunctions and
Federalism; (Begin) The
Injunction
5
(2/3,
2/5)
6
(2/10,
2/12)
7
(2/17,
2/19)
407-420
426-434
442-449
(Cont’d) The Injunction;
Modification of Injunctions
449-469
472-484
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. Hays; 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
(2/24,
2/26)
484-494
497-501
503-512
519-527
(Cont’d) Measure of
Injunctive Relief; Specific
Performance of Contracts
9
(3/3,
3/5)
531-561
(Cont’d) Specific
Performance of Contracts
10
(3/17,
3/19)
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; De Rivafinoli v.
Corsetti; 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
Williams 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
DEFENSES
11
(3/24,
3/26)
784-818
Remedial Defenses; Laches;
Statutes of Limitation;
Estoppel; Equitable Defenses
In re Swine Flu; Environmental Defense
Fund, Inc. v. Alexander; Barry v. Donnelly;
Carmen v. Fox Film Corp.; Claire v. Rue de
Paris. Inc.; note cases Seagirt Realty Corp.
v. Chazanof
RESTITUTION &
UNJUST
ENRICHMENT
12
(3/31,
4/2)
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
DAMAGES
13
(4/7,
4/9)
14
(4/14,
4/16)
42-62,
78-93
109-122
Principles of Damages;
Damages for Breach
of Contract; Damages
for Tortious Conduct
126-140
153-172
213-216
753-759
Limitations of Damages
Punitive Damages
Clark v. Marsiglia; Roberts v. Pilot Freight
Carriers; In re World Com,Inc.; Indiana
State Symphony v. Ziedonis; Hartke v
McKelway; Helfend v. So. CA Rapid
Transit; GE v. Lowe’s; Space Master v.
Worcester; Burgess v. Shampooch; 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