Mateo graduated high school and got a job working at a local…
Mateo graduated high school and got a job working at a local discount store. He could not afford to go to college, but he tries to take classes at the community college when he can. His job includes shiftwork, which means that his schedule changes a lot. He was promoted to manager, but that meant a very small increase in wages and he still has no benefits. It is hard to save because if he gets sick he loses his wages and can’t afford medical care. How typical is Mateo’s story of those living in poverty?
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PERFORMANCE TEST INSTRUCTIONS This performance test is designed to evaluate your ability to handle a select number of legal authorities in the context of a factual problem. The problem is set in the fictional State of Columbia, one of the United States. In Columbia, the intermediate appellate court is the Court of Appeal and the highest court is the Supreme Court. You will have two sets of materials with which to work: a File and a Library. The File consists of source documents containing all the facts of the case. The first document in the File is a memorandum containing the directions for the task you are to complete. The other documents in the File contain information about your case and may include some facts that are not relevant. Facts are sometimes ambiguous, incomplete, or even conflicting. As in practice, a client’s or supervising attorney’s version of events may be incomplete or unreliable. Applicants are expected to recognize when facts are inconsistent or missing and are expected to identify sources of additional facts. The Library contains the legal authorities needed to complete the task and may also include some authorities that are not relevant to the assigned lawyering task. The cases, statutes, regulations, or rules may be real, modified, or written solely for the purpose of this performance test. If any of them appear familiar to you, do not assume that they are precisely the same as you have read before. Read each thoroughly, as if it were new to you. You should assume that cases were decided in the jurisdictions and on the dates shown. In citing cases from the Library, you may use abbreviations and omit page references. Applicants are expected to extract from the Library the legal principles necessary to analyze the problem and perform the task. In answering this performance test, you should concentrate on the materials in the File and Library. What you have learned in law school and elsewhere provides the general background for analyzing the problem; the File and Library provide the specific materials with which you must work. Library and Files: In RE MARRIAGE OF BURKE
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