Legal English for Brazillian Attorneys First Quiz

What is the primary source of family law in the United States?

Which of the following is the best definition of a uniform law in the United States?

Which is the best definition of a statute?

Which of the following results from the Supremacy Clause in the United States Constitution?

What is a ‘rebuttable presumption’?

Which of the following is the name of a federal trial court?

What is a “clause” in the US Constitution?

Which of the following results from the Full Faith and Credit Clause?

Why is the Tenth Amendment associated with federalism?

What is preemption?

What is a self-executing treaty in the United States?

Which of the following best explains how the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods became part of US domestic law?

Which of the following best explains the “California Effect”?

What happens if a plaintiff lacks standing?

Which of the following is the best definition of redress?

What is a “pass-through” entity?

For whose benefit does an agent act?

Which of the following is the best explanation of the “corporate veil”?

What is the process of forming a US corporation?

What do we call a corporation’s internal laws or rules that govern how the corporation operates?

Below is a passage from a Texas case named, Turrubiartes v. Olvera. Rephrase the excerpt using different English words in a way that would help someone unfamiliar with US law understand the passage. There is no grade for this answer and your professor will discuss it in class.

The best interest of the children is always the primary focus of conservatorship decisions. Tex. Fam. Code § 153.002. The law presumes that it is in their best interest that both of their parents be named joint managing conservators. Tex. Fam. Code § 153.131. But once the party seeking appointment as sole managing conservator introduces evidence to rebut the presumption, it disappears. In deciding whether the presumption has been rebutted, the Texas Family Code directs courts to consider multiple factors, namely:

  (1) whether the physical, psychological, or emotional needs and development of the children will benefit from the appointment of joint managing conservators;

(2) the ability of the parents to give first priority to the welfare of the children and reach shared decisions in the children’s best interest;

Below is a passage from a Delaware case named, Albert v. Alex Brown Management Services, Inc. Rephrase the excerpt using different English words in a way that would help someone unfamiliar with US law understand the passage. There is no grade for this answer and your professor will discuss it in class.

The corporate veil may be pierced where a subsidiary is in fact a mere instrumentality or alter ego of its parent. Plaintiffs allege that [Company A] does not have board meetings or follow other corporate formalities. Instead, employees of [Company B] allegedly perform the activities that, in a properly functioning corporation, the board of directors would perform. If these facts are true and the other relationships are shown to exist, an adequate basis for piercing the corporate veil could be established.