Mediation Case Law Teaching Videos

 

Starting in 2006, as part of the annual Minnesota State Bar Association/Minnesota CLE ADR Institute, Mitchell Hamline School of Law Professor James Coben has been producing short videos illustrating mediation litigation.

Special thanks to Jodie Dulac and Justin Rooney for video production assistance and to the ADR Institute Players for their creativity and improvisation skills: Ellen Abbott, David Allgeyer, Hugh Bishop, James Coben, Ken Fox, Barbara Freese, Aimee Gourlay, John Heimbuch, Joe Kenyon, Michael Landrum, David Lauth, Susan Mainzer, Bobbi McAdoo, Mark McCrea, Leslie McEvoy, Marilyn McNight, Timothy Morrow, Lara Nafzinger, Rebecca Picard, Sharon Press, Ariana Prusak, Keith Prusak, Dan Simon, Sukh Singh, Jenelle Soderquist, Madge Thorsen, Gary Weissman, Robert Williams, Eduardo Wolle, and Jeanne Zimmer.

For reasons that will become obvious when you view the videos, please also provide your audience with the following disclaimer: Some of the video enactments you are about to see portray "less than optimal" mediator performance. Rest assured that you are not at risk by hiring any of the ADR Institute Players as neutrals (or lawyers), despite what you see on the tape.

The videos are fictional reenactments of the mediations underlying the published litigated cases. The "scripts" were developed solely by reading the written trial or appellate court decision - by no means a perfect window into what actually happened in a particular case.

Feel free to use these videos in your teaching and training. There is no charge for use; we ask only that you notify the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Dispute Resolution Institute that you are using the videos and describe the context. Whenever the videos are shown, please attribute them in the following way: Produced by Professor James Coben and the Minnesota State Bar Association/Minnesota CLE.

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Allstate Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Harbin, 333 So.3d 655 (Ala. 2021), James Coben

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Benavidez v. Andrus-Maxwell, No. CV 21-320 JHR/SCY, 2021 WL 4820643 (D.N.M. Oct. 15, 2021), James Coben

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Breslin v. Breslin, 62 Cal. App. 5th 801, 276 Cal. Rptr. 3d 913 (2021), reh’g denied (April 20, 2021), review denied (July 14, 2021), James Coben

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Brooks v. Lincoln National Life Ins. Co., No. 8:05CV118, 2006 WL 2487937 (D. Neb. Aug. 25, 2006), James Coben

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Buckley v. Shealy, 635 S.E.2d 76 (S.C. 2006), James Coben

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Catamount Slate Products, Inc. v. Sheldon, 845 A.2d 324 (Vt. 2003), James Coben

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Chesney v. Hypertension Diagnostics, Inc., A05-2210, 2006 WL 2256590 (Minn. App. Aug. 8, 2006), James Coben

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Donna S. v. Travis S., 246 W.Va. 634, 874 S.E.2d 746 (2022), James Coben

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Emerson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, No. 5877-00, 2003 WL 1392574 (U.S. Tax Ct., March 20, 2003), James Coben

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Estate of Barber v. Guilford County Sheriff's Department, 589 S.E.2d 433 (N.C. App. 2003), James Coben

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Fair v. Bakhtiari, 19 Cal.Rptr.3d 591 (Cal. Ct. App. 2004), James Coben

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Fivecoat v. Publix Super Markets, Inc., 928 So.2d 402 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. April 11, 2006), James Coben

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Foxgate Homeowners' Assoc., Inc v. Bramalea Cal., Inc., 25 P.3d 1117 (Cal. 2001), James Coben

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Guthrie v. Guthrie, 594 S.E.2d 356 (Ga. 2004), James Coben

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Heaven & Earth, Inc. v. Wyman Properties Limited Partnership, No. Civ. 03-3327, 2004 WL 2931347 (D. Minn., November 4, 2004), James Coben

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Home Depot, U.S.A., Inc., v. Saul Subsidiary I Ltd. Partn., 159 S.W.3d 339 (Ky. Ct. App. 2004), James Coben

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In re Fletcher, 424 F.3d 783 (8th Cir. 2005), James Coben

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In re Marriage of Craze, 133 Wash. App. 1023 (Wash. Ct. App. 2006), James Coben

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In re Non-Member of State Bar of Arizona, 152 P.3d 1183 (Ariz. 2007), James Coben

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In re O.R. v. J.R., No. E034376, 2004 WL 585583 (Cal. App. Mar. 25, 2004), James Coben

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In re Philpot, 820 N.E.2d 141 (Ind. 2005), James Coben

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In re Rains, 428 F.3d 893 (9th Cir. 2005), James Coben

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In re Terrence, 833 N.E.2d 206 (Ohio Ct. App. 2005), James Coben

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Irwin Seating Co. v. Int'l Bus. Mach, Corp., No. 1:04CV568, 2006 WL 3446584 (W.D. Mich. Nov. 29, 2006), James Coben

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Kakani v. Oracle Corp., No. C 06-06493 WHA, 2007 WL 1793774 (N.D. Cal., June 19, 2007), James Coben

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Kline v. Berg Drywall, Inc., 685 N.W.2d 12 (Minn. 2004), James Coben

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Lawson v. Brown's Home Day Care Center, Inc., No. 2003-112, 2004 WL 1586888 (Vt. July 8, 2004), James Coben

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Ledbetter v. Ledbetter, 163 S.W.3d 681 (Tenn. 2005), James Coben

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Lee v. Lee, 158 S.W.3d 612 (Tex. Ct. App. 2005), James Coben

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M. A. B. v. Buell, 366 Or. 553, 466 P.3d 949 (2020), James Coben

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McDermott v. City of North Olmsted, Ohio, 178 Fed.Appx. 515 (6th Cir. April 27, 2006), James Coben

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Morgan Phillips, Inc. v. JAMS/Endispute, L.L.C., 44 Cal.Rptr.3d 782 (Cal. Ct. App. 2 Dist. June 20, 2006), James Coben

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Reid v. Kroll, No. 2181CV00769, 2021 WL 5711257 (Mass. Super. 2021), James Coben

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Rojas v. Los Angeles County Superior Ct., 93 P.3d 260 (Cal. 2004), James Coben

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Ryles v. Palace Hotel, No. C 04-5326 SBA, 2006 WL 3093678 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 27, 2006), James Coben

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Sealed Party v. Sealed Party, No. CIV. A. H-04-2229, 2006 WL 1207732 (S.D. Tex. May 4, 2006), James Coben

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Shake v. The Ethics Committee of the Kentucky Judiciary, 122 S.W.3d 577 (Ky. 2003), James Coben

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Simpson v. JAMS/Endispute, L.L.C., No. A110634, 2006 WL 2076028 (Cal.App. 1 Dist. July 26, 2006), James Coben

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Smith Wholesale Co., Inc. v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., No. 2:03-CV-221, 2005 WL 1230436 (E.D. Tenn. May 24, 2005), James Coben

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State v. Williams, 877 A.2d 1258 (N.J. 2005), James Coben

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Statewide Grievance Committee v. Kennelly, No. CV040833515S, 2005 WL 758055 (Conn. Super., Feb. 25, 2005), James Coben

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Stories Mediation Parties Tell, Part 1 (Compelling, but Nonetheless Enforceable), James Coben

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Stories Mediation Parties Tell, Part 2 (A Winning Claim?), James Coben

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Stories Mediation Parties Tell, Part 3 (“Mediation Rashomon”: What a Plaintiff Claims to Have Heard; What a Mediator Claims to Have Said), James Coben

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Tyler v. Findling, 508 Mich. 364, 972 N.W.2d 833 (2021), reh'g denied, 508 Mich. 940, 964 N.W.2d 41 (Mem)(Sept. 22, 2021), James Coben

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Uniform Mediation Act Overview (As Part of "Fictional" Mediator Opening Statement), James Coben

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U.S. Steel Mining Co., L.L.C. v. Wilson Downhole Serv., No. 02:00CV1758, 2006 WL 2869535 (W.D. Pa. Oct 5, 2006), James Coben

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Vitakis v. Valchine, 793 So. 2d 1094 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001), James Coben

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Wimsatt v. Superior Court, 61 Cal.Rptr.3d 200 (Ct. App. 2007), James Coben

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Zimmerman v. Zimmerman, No. 04-04-00347-CV, 2005 WL 1812613 (Tex. App. Aug. 3, 2005), James Coben