George is 85 years old and Grace, his wife, is 83. They are on a fixed retirement budget
and have no disposable income and no savings. Grace’s doctor informs her that she
requires a particular medicine that costs $84. They don’t have money to buy the
medicine, there are no relatives or friends to ask, and there are no programs that can
provide them with the medicine money. Feeling he has no choice, George goes to the
local bank and robs it, handing the teller a note demanding $84 in small bills. Discuss
George’s action from a moral and ethical point of view.
Attorneys who work for a company and are part of the executive or midlevel
management team are specifically referred to as ________ counsel.
Property owners of contaminated land are not exempt from liability for cleanup even if
they bought the property unaware of pollution.
The ________ gives the president power to appoint officers of the United States,
including heads of administrative agencies.
The Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 established the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau. What is the authority of this agency?
Discuss the ways that the three major international arbitration organizations choose
arbitrators.
When the original parties to a contract agree to allow one of them to substitute another
party to perform the contract, this is called _______.
The Superfund imposes joint and several liability on the ________ responsible parties.
In some special types of cases such as divorce, the defendant is instead called a
_______.
Structures erected on real estate are called ______.
Discuss the potential advantages of ADR over litigation.
Donald is the president and CEO of Formerly Fat Inc., a health and diet company that
promotes weight loss through its “revolutionary” feast and famine diet. The diet calls
for eating anything you want on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with fasting on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays. On weekends, food is limited to one big lunch each day.
Formerly Fat has a celebrity spokesperson who claims she and all her Hollywood
friends swear by this diet, and the company has infomercials running on television
constantly. On a Friday afternoon, Donald is called by a reporter, who asks if he’s
concerned that the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most respected and
prestigious medical journals in the country, is about to publish an article on Tuesday
documenting that numerous practitioners of this diet suffer from serious medical
problems and that three deaths have occurred relating to the diet. The article’s authors
will be calling for an investigation and eventual ban on advertising and promotion of
the diet. Donald laughs and claims the article will be challenged and shown to be
inaccurate. As soon as he hangs up, he calls his wife, who has the company stock in her
name for liability reasons, and then his brother and says to each, “I just got word that
the company is in trouble, and we will have problems soon. Sell your stock
immediately.” On Monday morning, his wife and brother sell all of their holdings. On
Tuesday the article is published, and by Wednesday the stock value is down 40 percent.
Discuss this situation.
Alan drives drunk and causes a collision, killing Toni. When Toni’s grandmother hears
the news, she has a heart attack and dies. Can Alan be successfully sued for negligence
in causing the grandmother’s death?
Describe the current state of international protections of trademarks.