Law 19 - Property & Creditors' Rights  - Prof Richard Walker

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Law 19 - Property - Winter 2009 - Section # 0153 - Your online instructor is Prof Richard Walker - Work due on Sunday Evenings by 11:55 pm - All bankruptcy and evictions forms please mail to Prof. Walker

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- use the following facts for your bankruptcy papers -  signup for moodle login to moodle - law home page look at classwiki - important dates - see course description -  - new bankruptcy law and forms - http://bklaw.pbwiki.com

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Work in Law 19 is due on Sundays at 11:55pm - no late work please - http://profj.us/late

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Read information and use these facts for your bankruptcy - at http://bklaw.pbwiki.com/bk-facts

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All of the work below is done under moodle

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Week 1 - Due 1-11-09

• Read the syllabus for the class and order the textbook - West Business Law - 11th edition - go to http://moodle.lamission.edu - and login to your class - at http://moodle.lamission.edu
• Review property-resources
• Post your Introduction
• Post "How to Study Law
• Post Good Legal Writing
• Post The Uses of Argument
• Post Analytic Thinking
• Post Legal Ethics - "Character Counts"
• Take Moodle 101 Tutorial

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• Read Chapter on Bankruptcy
• #1 Liquidations
• #2 Bankruptcy lawfinder website

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• no chapter to read
• #3 Summarize Steps in a Bankruptcy
• Test #A Bankruptcy Quiz

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Week 2 - Due 1-18-09

• Read Chapter on Secured Transactions
• #4 Summarize the bankruptcy forms
• #5 California Exemptions - listen to podcast

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• no chapter to read
• #6 Priority of Disputes
• Test #B Secured Transactions Quiz

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• Read Chapter on Creditors' Remedies 
• #7 Subrogration Rights

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Week 3 - Due 1-25-09

• no chapter to read
• #8 Mechanic Liens Procedure
• Test #C Creditors Remedies Quiz

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• Read Chapter on Real Property & Landlord-Tenant
• #9 Eviction Procedures
• #10 Method of 3 day service
• #11 3 day notice to pay rent or quiz
• #12 Rules on Repair and Deduct
• #13 Green case and "habitability"

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Week 4 - Due 2-01-09

• Read Chapter on Real Property
• Test #D Real Property & Landlord-Tenant Quiz

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• Read Chapter on Personal Property
• Test #E Personal Property Quiz

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• Read Chapter on Consumer Law
• #14 Submit Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Paperwork - late after 7/13/08 at 11:55 pm - 30% deduction in possible points for the assignment. The assignment is worth 500 points, so 150 point deduction for late work.
• #15 Submit Eviction Paperwork - late after 7/13/08
• Test #F Consumer Law Quiz

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Week 5 - Due 2-08-09

• Read Chapter on Checks and the Banking system
• #16 Gifts - under "assignments"
• #17 Deceptive Advertising
• Test #G Checks, and the Banking system

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• Read Chapter on Labor and Employment Law
• #18 Stale Checks
• Test #H Labor and Employment Law Quiz

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• #19 Worker Comp case law

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Scores and Grades

Tests = 30% of your grade

Bankruptcy papers = 15% of your grade

Eviction papers = 10% of your grade

Forum Discussion = 10% of your grade

Assignments = 35% of your grade

************* total percent = 100 %

 

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A =  90%

B =  80 - 89%

C = 70 - 79%

D = 69% or below

 

A grade of C or greater is required to pass the class

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