JD NEXT UPDATED SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Witness is incompetent - ✔✔An objection based on the witness's inability to provide
reliable testimony.
✔✔Violation of the best evidence rule - ✔✔An objection that claims that the original
document or evidence is not being presented.
✔✔Violation of the hearsay rule - ✔✔An objection based on the inadmissibility of
hearsay evidence.
✔✔Speculative - ✔✔That the question calls for the witness to speculate about
something.
✔✔Leading - ✔✔When the question posed by the attorney seeks to lead the witness to
make an assertion.
✔✔Violation of the parol evidence rule - ✔✔An objection that claims that outside
agreements are inadmissible in court.
✔✔Repetitive - ✔✔The question has already been asked and answered.
✔✔Offer - ✔✔A promise to do or refrain from doing something in exchange for
something else.
✔✔Opinion - ✔✔Primarily refers to a judicial opinion, which is a court's written
statement explaining the court's decision for the case.
✔✔Majority opinion - ✔✔A judicial opinion that is joined by more than half the judges
deciding a case.
, ✔✔Dissenting opinion - ✔✔The separate judicial opinion of an appellate judge who
disagreed with the majority's decision.
✔✔Advisory opinion - ✔✔A court's nonbinding statement interpreting the law.
✔✔Per curiam opinion - ✔✔A judicial opinion issued under the name of the deciding
appellate court.
✔✔Plurality opinion - ✔✔A judicial opinion that received the most votes of any opinion
but not enough to be the majority opinion.
✔✔Opinion evidence - ✔✔Witness testimony based directly on the witness's own
thoughts, beliefs, or inferences.
✔✔Expert opinion - ✔✔Testimony by an expert witness who possesses specialized
knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education.
✔✔Opinion work product - ✔✔Material prepared by an attorney that reveals the
attorney's opinions, mental impressions, conclusions, or legal theories of the case.
✔✔Order - ✔✔A decision issued by a court or authoritative body.
✔✔Cease and desist order - ✔✔An order requiring a party to stop a specified action.
✔✔Parol evidence rule - ✔✔An evidentiary rule in contract disputes making evidence of
agreements outside the written contract inadmissible.
✔✔Per curiam - ✔✔Latin for 'by the court.' An opinion from an appellate court that does
not identify any specific judge.
✔✔Plaintiff - ✔✔The party who initiates a lawsuit against the defendant.
✔✔Plea - ✔✔A formal answer to a charge in court, which can be guilty, not guilty, or
nolo contendere.
✔✔Prejudicial - ✔✔In civil procedure, a dismissal 'with prejudice' means the court
intends for that dismissal to be final.
✔✔Principal - ✔✔A person or thing that is more important than others when identified
for a particular purpose.
✔✔Procedural posture - ✔✔A summary of how the case arrived in the court.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Witness is incompetent - ✔✔An objection based on the witness's inability to provide
reliable testimony.
✔✔Violation of the best evidence rule - ✔✔An objection that claims that the original
document or evidence is not being presented.
✔✔Violation of the hearsay rule - ✔✔An objection based on the inadmissibility of
hearsay evidence.
✔✔Speculative - ✔✔That the question calls for the witness to speculate about
something.
✔✔Leading - ✔✔When the question posed by the attorney seeks to lead the witness to
make an assertion.
✔✔Violation of the parol evidence rule - ✔✔An objection that claims that outside
agreements are inadmissible in court.
✔✔Repetitive - ✔✔The question has already been asked and answered.
✔✔Offer - ✔✔A promise to do or refrain from doing something in exchange for
something else.
✔✔Opinion - ✔✔Primarily refers to a judicial opinion, which is a court's written
statement explaining the court's decision for the case.
✔✔Majority opinion - ✔✔A judicial opinion that is joined by more than half the judges
deciding a case.
, ✔✔Dissenting opinion - ✔✔The separate judicial opinion of an appellate judge who
disagreed with the majority's decision.
✔✔Advisory opinion - ✔✔A court's nonbinding statement interpreting the law.
✔✔Per curiam opinion - ✔✔A judicial opinion issued under the name of the deciding
appellate court.
✔✔Plurality opinion - ✔✔A judicial opinion that received the most votes of any opinion
but not enough to be the majority opinion.
✔✔Opinion evidence - ✔✔Witness testimony based directly on the witness's own
thoughts, beliefs, or inferences.
✔✔Expert opinion - ✔✔Testimony by an expert witness who possesses specialized
knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education.
✔✔Opinion work product - ✔✔Material prepared by an attorney that reveals the
attorney's opinions, mental impressions, conclusions, or legal theories of the case.
✔✔Order - ✔✔A decision issued by a court or authoritative body.
✔✔Cease and desist order - ✔✔An order requiring a party to stop a specified action.
✔✔Parol evidence rule - ✔✔An evidentiary rule in contract disputes making evidence of
agreements outside the written contract inadmissible.
✔✔Per curiam - ✔✔Latin for 'by the court.' An opinion from an appellate court that does
not identify any specific judge.
✔✔Plaintiff - ✔✔The party who initiates a lawsuit against the defendant.
✔✔Plea - ✔✔A formal answer to a charge in court, which can be guilty, not guilty, or
nolo contendere.
✔✔Prejudicial - ✔✔In civil procedure, a dismissal 'with prejudice' means the court
intends for that dismissal to be final.
✔✔Principal - ✔✔A person or thing that is more important than others when identified
for a particular purpose.
✔✔Procedural posture - ✔✔A summary of how the case arrived in the court.
