Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In today’s “Listen and Learn” episode, we look at the various ways of establishing whether a court has jurisdiction over the parties in a lawsuit.
In this episode we discuss:
- Establishing personal jurisdiction through traditional bases
- The difference between “domicile” and “presence”
- Long-arm statutes and ties to the forum state
- The two parts of the constitutional analysis
- General jurisdiction and specific jurisdiction
- Analyzing two hypos from previous California bar exams
- Structuring an answer to a personal jurisdiction question
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Resources:
- “Listen and Learn” series
- The Brainy Bar Bank: Streamlining Bar Study
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2004
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, July 2016
- International Shoe Co. v. Washington
- Podcast Episode 33: Tackling an MEE Civil Procedure Question
- Podcast Episode 72: Tackling a California Bar Exam Essay: Civil Procedure
- Podcast Episode 92: Listen and Learn – Subject Matter Jurisdiction
- Podcast Episode 111: Listen and Learn – Introduction to Supplemental Jurisdiction (Civ Pro)
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