Chapter 1.4, Problem I.14E

For this assignment, you are going to be a new associate at a law firm advising a partner on a recent incident and all the potential legal issues associated with it. You will be required to draft a legal memo that describes a scene which occurs at a Farmer’s Market and explains to the reader what happened at the Market, what potential torts and crimes may have occurred at the scene, who can allege these torts or crimes, and what the elements of these torts and crimes would have to be proven. The memo must include the five of the following terms used correctly. Negligence Invasion of Privacy Product Liability Fraudulent Misrepresentation Battery (as a tort or a crime) Trademark Dilution Copyright Infringement Patent Infringement Robbery Forgery

At many universities, the title to any patentable inventions conceived or reduced to practice by faculty, staff, or students is assigned to the university regardless of the funding source. In this situation, if the innovator(s) intend to participate in commercialization of the technology via a start-up, they must license the rights to the invention from the university True False

Bailey is a limited partner in his company. A general partner in his company is going on an extended vacation and has asked Bailey to run the company while he is gone. If Bailey agrees to do so, he will no longer qualify as a limited partner. ( a) True b) False

What is the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws?     A group of experts who develop laws for states to adopt so that laws on specific subjects will be the same from state to state     An organization made up of representatives from the legislatures in each state that negotiates changes to state laws intended to standardize state laws     A committee of the U.S. Congress whose purpose is to propose how differences in state laws can be resolved     A committee of the American Bar Association whose purpose is to recommend to the U.S. Congress how differences in state laws can be eliminated What is the legal concept that rulings made by the highest courts must be followed by lower courts in future cases?     Civil law     Model laws     Stare decisis     Restatement of the law

1) A black firefighter alleges that each time he is transferred from one fire station to another, he must take his bed with him, on orders of the fire chief. The fire chief defends on the basis that it is a legitimate decision because white firefighters would not want to sleep in the same bed in which a black firefighter slept. Is this illegal under Title VII? Explain 2) A white college receptionist is fired when it is found that she told a black college applicant that the applications for admissions are distinguished by race by the notation of a small Rh in the corner of black applicants’ applications.”Rh,”she says, is her supervisor’s term for “raisin heads, “which he calls African-Americans. Is this employee entitled to reinstatement? 3) jose and Cesar, both Hispanic, are carpenters employed by a contractor to help build an office building in Maryland. While working, Jose and Cesar discover that they are being paid less than non-Hispanic employees. In addition, they allege a hostile…

Substantive law includes the following areas of law: a) Criminal Law b) Criminal Procedure c) Family Law d) Contract Law e) a,c, and d only f) a,b, and d only