Which one of the following describes an attribution of responsibility that is most analogous to the attribution centr...

lsatstudier1 on September 27, 2020

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Rita on October 22, 2021

Me either :(

Jenna on November 10, 2021

I am also having a hard time distinguishing the difference between A and C, please help!

AneeshU on January 14, 2022

Same here

Jordan-Schlinger on January 17, 2022

Hey guys likes break this down together!

First let's look at the difference(s) between A and C. The first thing to look at is who bears responsibility. In A it only mentions the trucking company as responsible. However in answer choice C it talks about the newspaper company AND the writer bearing responsibility for the piece- not just the newspaper company!

This goes back to attributing it to the state and who is responsible. Whilst the judge viewed the provisions as legal they did NOT view judicial support of them as legal due to the 14th amendment. It allows us to draw the distinction between the individual, the state, and the judiciary. Answer choice C correctly shows how the latter two both have responsibility, whilst answer choice Anonly allows for one single one to have responsibility.

I hope this helped, if you have further questions please don't hesitate to ask!

Thanks,

Jordan

AneeshU on June 6, 2022

Hi Jordan.

I have a follow up question to your explanation.

So, in your explanation, you talked about how both the state and judiciary have responsibility, similar to how the columnist and newspaper have responsibility in (C) but in line 25 of the passage, "responsibility for a contract's substantive provisions should be attributed to the state when a court enforces it." (i.e. no mention is made about the attribution to the court). So based on this line from the passage, attribution should only be made to a single entity.

While this justification would be weak on its own, there is also another consideration - the trucking company "inspects" the vehicles, analogous to the court deliberating on enforcing the racially restrictive covenants in the contract. If the trucking company fails to inspect the vehicles and is thus held responsible, isn't that like the state being held responsible for court enforcement of racist covenants?

Obviously the above explanation is incorrect since (C) is the correct answer, but could you please help me understand the counter arguments to the above justification?