Johnny, a neighbor who is not a merchant under the Uniform Commercial Code, offers to buy a car from Mark for $30,000.   Mark asks Johnny for some time to think about it. Johnny says sure. He writes on a piece of paper that he will keep the offer open for two weeks.   A week later Johnny sees another car he would rather buy. […]

Choose any federal statute that is currently in the news. You will have to research that statute and at least two court cases pertaining to the statute. Then, prepare a PowerPoint Presentation of 6 to 8 slides addressing the following: 1. Provide a summary perspective of the statute.  2. From the two cases relevant to the statute you researched, analyze and evaluate each case separately […]

Courthouse Field Trip: READ THESE DETAILS CAREFULLY. For an easy grade, find your local courthouse and take a picture of yourself either in it or in front of it. Go inside and sit in on some proceedings taking place either in a courtroom or in chambers. You may watch civil or criminal, but not traffic court. Appellate court arguments are permissible. Please note that you […]

This week of class, we examine Chapter 7 (Criminal Law) and Chapter 8 (Tort Law).  In the Learning Unit for this week of class, there is a video involving the OJ Simpson criminal trial and a link to a NY Times article involving the OJ Simpson civil case (posted below).  For those who are younger, you may not remember this case.  I remember it well […]

All organizations in the country employ people. Employment laws impact everyone, regardless if you are actively employed or not. As employers continue to control costs associated with claims from employees, employers have commonly turned to arbitration agreements. These agreements normally require employees to waive any right or protection afforded by joining a class action and instead forces each individual employee to take the claims before […]

1) ABC Corp. brought a lawsuit against Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, won the suit, and obtained a judgment for monetary damages in the amount of $53,000. ABC Corp. recorded a judgement lien against the Morgans’ homestead property. The homestead property is located an any county, any state. The Morgans then filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy relief and included the judgement lien as a discharge – […]

Tom, Dick, and Harry have been best friends since kindergarten. Tom is the business brain of the group. Dick is the mechanical one and Harry is the creative one. All grown-up, the boys decided that they should start making some serious money to provide for their expanding families. The boys decided that they salvage small scrap metal pieces, nuts, and bolts from junkyards and salvage […]

  Thinking about the styles and models of leadership offered in the readings, is there a relationship between leadership styles and leadership models? Why or why not?  Share your own preferred leadership style from the readings and tell us why you chose it.  Does your preferred leadership style make one leadership model more compelling to you than the others, and why or why not?   Lastly, does […]

Read the EEO v. Target case on page 132 and answer all the case questions on page 135.  The Purdue Writing Lab provides guidance on APA formatting.  Your submission should contain a cover page entitled with the Module number and title and a reference section at the end. Each analysis paper should be 4-6 pages in length excluding the cover page and reference section.  This assignment should […]

Prior to beginning this assignment, consider that Messer, Patten, and Candela (2016) provides a helpful summary of life course theory on pages seven through eight. Also, note that Salvatore (2017) provides a helpful summary of life course theory on pages one through two. In addition, consider pages 697–698 in Zoutewelle-Terovan and Skardhamar’s (2016) ALL LISTED RESOURCES PROVIDED IN ATTACMENTS!!!!!!     article which provides helpful summaries of […]