A defendant pointed a realistic toy gun at a cashier and demanded that the cashier open the register. The cashier, terrified, opened the register, and the defendant took the cash. Which statement best describes robbery?...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 222.1
A zoning ordinance permits single-family homes as of right and permits small day-care centers as conditional uses if the applicant satisfies stated parking, traffic, and noise standards. Applicant satisfies those standar...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
...building permit for an apartment building and, before any notice of rezoning, spends $800,000 on foundations and utility work. The city later rezones the parcel to prohibit apartments and orders Owner to stop work. What...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
...se while the marriage continues. Dana then dies before foreclosure is completed. Discuss the property rights of Ellis, Bank, and Creditor before and after Dana's death. This question tests marital real-property ownership...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Real Property
...usiness license, and tells customers that the bakery will reopen. The zoning board claims the nonconforming use was abandoned solely because the bakery was closed. What is the best common-law analysis? The correct answer...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
...prior nonconforming uses. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
...se, and the planning staff found no public need for the change. The rezoning mainly benefits the parcel owner. Which challenge is strongest? The correct answer states the standard concern in spot-zoning challenges. NCBE...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
...nt $1.2 million on grading, foundations, and utility lines before any zoning-change notice was published. After neighbors objected to apartment construction, City rezoned Developer A's tract and three surrounding parcels...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
...tandards are satisfied, and prohibits restaurants. Developer knew the zoning classification before buying the property. Developer first applied for a use variance to operate a small restaurant, arguing that a restaurant...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
...obtaining a use variance. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
...e grocery was lawful when it opened. Five years later, City adopted a zoning ordinance classifying the neighborhood as single-family residential. The ordinance prohibited retail stores but allowed lawful preexisting nonc...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
...record includes facts suggesting that practice was unreasonable or incomplete in this setting. The opponent argues that custom ends the analysis. How should the court, tribunal, or decision maker resolve the dispute? Di...
Citations: Recording acts, Mortgage and registry principles
After Owner buys a coastal lot for home construction, State adopts a regulation prohibiting any economically productive use of the lot. State argues the regulation is valid because it prevents serious erosion and floo...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
...tial nexus, rough proportionality, monetary exactions, dedications of property interests, and the effect of the fact that the conditions were authorized by ordinance. This essay tests land-use exactions, nexus, rough pro...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, Dolan v. City of Tigard, Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, Sheetz v. County of El Dorado
City ordinance requires every apartment owner to allow City to install a small permanent emergency antenna on each building's roof. Owner objects and seeks compensation. What is the best takings analysis? The correct...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.
City will issue a building permit for a 20-unit apartment project only if Owner dedicates a public path across the parcel and pays a traffic-impact fee. Owner challenges the permit conditions as unconstitutional exact...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, Dolan v. City of Tigard, Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, Sheetz v. County of El Dorado
County adopts an 18-month moratorium on new subdivision approvals while it studies traffic and water-capacity limits. Landowner claims the moratorium is automatically a compensable taking because it temporarily preven...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
...00 intending to build three rental cottages. At the time of purchase, zoning allowed the cottages. Two years later, after severe storms damaged nearby dunes, County enacted an emergency coastal ordinance. The ordinance p...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.
Greenway Foods hired Tara, a commercial real estate broker, to locate a warehouse for a new distribution center. Tara found a warehouse listed for $2 million. Before telling Greenway about the listing, Tara formed an LLC...
Citations: Restatement (Third) of Agency sections 8.01, 8.02, 8.05
...says nothing about access. At the time of the sale, the back half is completely surrounded by the seller's remaining land and cliffs and has no access to a public road. Which statement is most accurate? The correct answ...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline
...record includes facts suggesting that practice was unreasonable or incomplete in this setting. The opponent argues that custom ends the analysis. How should the court, tribunal, or decision maker resolve the dispute? Di...
Citations: Landlord-tenant doctrine
...ndings. AlpineGear sells all clips to a German assembler, which sells completed bindings to an independent distributor in New York. AlpineGear has no office, employees, property, advertising, direct sales, customer list...
Citations: World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson, J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro, Walden v. Fiore
...ages, and pain and suffering. Delta Drones argues that diversity is incomplete because LiftPoint LLC has a State A member through Ridge Capital LP. Amara argues that LiftPoint should be treated like a corporation with ci...
Citations: 28 U.S.C. 1332, Hertz Corp. v. Friend, Carden v. Arkoma Associates
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