You are a member of your state’s paralegal association and you regularly attend events. One of the members of the education committee of the association, Jan Janus, tells you that they are planning to expand their website’s section that provides educational resources on different areas of law. Jan asks you if you would be willing to contribute to the section on contract law by specifically providing content for a webpage that gives an overview of the five categories needed to establish a failure to achieve a “meeting of the minds” for a contract: 1) mistake, 2) duress, 3) undue influence, 4), fraud and misrepresentation, and 5)unconscionability. You agree. Jan says that what you would need to provide is a brief introduction, and then an explanation of each of these categories. For mistake, she asks you to be sure to cover both a unilateral mistake and bilateral mistake in your information.
For each category, Jan thinks it would be helpful for you to identify a state case that illustrates the particular category – for example, identify a state case that explains the concept of duress or undue influence in a contract. You do not need to provide a full case brief, but you should have a concise explanation of relevant facts and how the concept (mistake, etc.) was applied in the case. Because the overview is meant for educational purposes, Jan asks that you cite any sources you use. [Note: You can decide which state you are situated in for the purposes of this assignment; please try to find cases for the different categories that are from the same state, in the spirit of the exercise of writing this overview for a state’s paralegal association.]
Please use 5 scholarly/legal references !BLUEBOOK standards for legal formatting and citation should be adhered to in this assignment!
Teachers feedback from previous assignment :Sources: I would have expanded further and used the UCC sections more frequently as well for this assignment and or to reference state law in Florida.Please be careful with the sources and focus on using the UCC and any state legal codes or state case decisions.
With a Restatement, you need to be careful since a Restatement is just a legal treatise book of proposed legal concepts, or put another way, it is not a legally binding authority on a court unless the state itself has adopted those provisions into their legal code.
You also cited a contract law – laws of Medicine book, which is likely not to be a good primary source to use in a Florida Sporting Goods contract dispute.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask .