Graders' Comments

I thought you'd be interested in seeing some of the comments I'm getting from the graders. Here are some tidbits.

From Torts:

"THIS IS A MATTER OF PUBLIC CONCERN SO YOU ALSO NEED TO DISCUSS FALSITY AND FAULT.
·YOU NEED TO DISCUSS WHETHER ED WAS A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE FIGURE.
·DISCUSS ALL DEFENSES: TRUTH, CONSENT & QUALIFIED PRIVILEGE."

I did discuss falsity and fault. That's what threw me initially with this comment. I didn't discuss public/private figure issues, though. Also, for the defenses, I discussed all of them except qualified privilege.

From Evidence:

"WHAT MATTERS HERE IS WHETHER TOM, THE DECLARANT, WAS TRUCKO'S EMPLOYEE. BOYD'S STATUS IS NOT RELEVANT HERE."

The grader was wrong, actually. Boyd was the declarant, not Tom. Tom was the witness. FYI.

"YOU DISCUSSED THE MAJORITY OF THE ISSUES REASONABLY WELL."

Well, isn't that sweet?

From the Performance Test:

"GOOD USE OF DETAILS FROM THE FILE IN YOUR LIST OF LEGITIMATE ACTIVITIES."

"INCREASE YOUR ANALYSIS, MAKE SURE YOU USE A LOT OF DETAILS FROM THE FILE AND COMPARE TO THE CASE LAW IN THE LIBRARY FACTS."

The grader made that same comment a couple of times on my essay. Honestly-- it was so hard to get to everything I DID write! It just sounded to me like the grader was saying, "Do more."