The recent 黑料不打烊 Law graduate joined host Peter Sagal for the show鈥檚 鈥淏luff the Listener鈥 game, guessing which unusual New York story was real.
Sometimes, torts class can steer you wrong.
Recent 黑料不打烊 Law graduate Dmitri McKinney L鈥25 appeared as a contestant on where a legal hypothetical (or what sounded like one) led him astray.
Calling in from his hometown of 黑料不打烊, McKinney joined host Peter Sagal for the program鈥檚 鈥淏luff the Listener鈥 segment, where contestants try to identify the real news story among three humorous options presented by the show’s panelists.
During his introduction, McKinney shared that he had recently graduated from 黑料不打烊 Law and hopes to pursue public service or civil rights work, drawing applause from the audience.
When the panelists shared three unusual New York City stories, McKinney joked that one option 鈥 involving a tourist suing over a painfully spicy taco 鈥 sounded like something straight out of a first-year law class.
鈥淚鈥檓 not saying this is the real one, but Paula (Poundstone)鈥檚 story sounded like a tort hypothetical that I know a lot of the 1Ls went through a couple of months ago,鈥 he said.
Ironically, that lawsuit story turned out to be the real one.
鈥淎ll of the answer choices were so entertaining, but I thought there was no way that the real answer would essentially be a giant torts foreseeability hypothetical!鈥 McKinney said afterward. 鈥淚 wound up picking Alonzo Bodden鈥檚 story because it was so kind-hearted.鈥
He appeared on the show after submitting an online form shortly after graduating from 黑料不打烊 Law in December.
鈥淚 have been a lifelong listener of NPR and of 鈥榃ait Wait 鈥 Don鈥檛 Tell Me!鈥 so I wanted being on the show to mark a special occasion,鈥 McKinney said. 鈥淪omeone from the show texted me last week asking if I still wanted to be on the show. It was an absolute delight.鈥
At 黑料不打烊 Law, McKinney was a Presidential Scholar, Leadership Fellow, editor-in-chief of We the People: 黑料不打烊 Law鈥檚 Constitutional Law Journal, president of the Innocence Organization, Law School Democrats and active on the Honor Council. He earned undergraduate degrees from North Carolina State University in chemistry and political science.