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26. A city enacted an ordinance that prohibited billboard advertising intended to influence public opinion. An advocacy group that regularly used billboard advertising filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the ordinance. One month later, the city repealed the ordinance. The federal court dismissed the lawsuit because the issue __________________.
  1. Had become ripe.
  2. Had become moot.
  3. Lacked standing.
  4. Had been adjudicated.
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27. The term “injunction” refers to ______________.
  1. A collision between a train and a vehicle at a railroad crossing.
  2. A court order commanding or restraining an action.
  3. A court order requiring a party to pay damages to the opposing party.
  4. A court order requiring a party to pay a sanction or fine to the court.
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28. Homer is paralegal working for the Law Office of Marge Simpson. Ms. Simpson is handling a real estate case that involves Lot A and Lot B, which are adjacent to each other. The owner of Lot A began digging a hole on his lot as the basement for the house he wanted to build. One edge of the hole was near the boundary line with Lot B, and during the digging process the edge near Lot B collapsed and part of Lot B fell into the hole on Lot A. As Ms. Simpson is drafting a motion, she asks Homer to find cases with facts similar to the fact of this case. Which of the following cases is most analogous to the case Ms. Simpson is handling?
  1. A case in which a mining company operated an open-pit mining operation on land that it owned and one area of the open-pit mine collapsed on a hauling company’s truck.
  2. A case in which two neighbors owned adjacent lots in a subdivision, and one neighbor’s above-ground swimming pool sprung a leak and flooded the other neighbor’s property.
  3. A case in which a farmer owned the surface rights to farmland, and a mining company owned the subsurface mining rights, and a mining operation caused the surface to collapse.
  4. A case in which a driver lost control of her vehicle on an icy, rural road, and the vehicle left the road and ran through a landowner’s flower garden.
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29. An anthropologist was working on an archeological dig of an ancient village in a Central American country. Near the ancient village, she discovered a large circle of rocks, with larger four larger rocks carefully placed on the northern, southern, eastern, and western sides of the circle. She also found four rectangular-shaped rocks placed at other points around the circle. After a survey, the anthropologists learned that the center of the circle and the rectangular-shaped rocks were aligned with rising and setting sun on the summer solstice and with the rising and setting sun on the winter solstice. Based on this information, the anthropologist concluded, “This ancient society worshipped the sun.” What assumption does this conclusion require?
  1. All societies that align objects to follow the summer and winter solstices worship the sun.
  2. All rock formations are aligned with the summer and winter solstices.
  3. All ancient villages followed the summer and winter solstices.
  4. All ancient societies were sun-worshippers.
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30. In comparing cases at law and cases in equity, the final order in an action at law is a judgment, and the final order in an action in equity is a(n) ______________.
  1. Order.
  2. Decree.
  3. Determination.
  4. Opinion.
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