A company in Colorado polluted a local city’s drinking water. The city is filing suit over the issue, and the company is trying to have the case tried in Nevada instead of Colorado, since it believes it has a better chance of winning there. Why can’t the case be tried in Nevada? The case is outside of Nevada’s jurisdiction. It violates the principle of stare decisis. It goes against popular sovereignty. The case is bound by English Common Law.

In e. c. tolman's experiment, some rats were trained to run through mazes for standard food goals, while other rats were allowed to explore the mazes for 10 days without food goals or other rewards. later, when food rewards were placed in a box at the far end of the maze, the previously unrewarded rats reached the food box as quickly as the rewarded rats after only one or two trials. this experiment demonstrated that the rats had the ability to form of their surroundings.