Questions from Business Law

Q: Facebook, Inc. filed a complaint in the U.S

Facebook, Inc. filed a complaint in the U.S. district court against numerous defendants alleging that the named defendants engaged in trademark infringement, cybersquatting, and false designation of o...

Q: Eddie Howard and Shane D. Schneider worked as employees of Nitro

Eddie Howard and Shane D. Schneider worked as employees of Nitro-Lift Technologies, L.L.C. Howard and Schneider entered into a noncompetition agreement with Nitro-Lift whereby they agreed that they wo...

Q: Fred Phelps founded the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.

Fred Phelps founded the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. The church’s congregation believes that God hates and punishes the United States. The church frequently communicates its views by pic...

Q: The Greater Gulf State Fair, Inc. operated the Gulf State

The Greater Gulf State Fair, Inc. operated the Gulf State Fair in Mobile County, Alabama. One of the events at the fair was a mechanical bull ride, and participants paid money to ride the mechanical b...

Q: Three teenagers, Sarah Mitchell, Adam Jacobs, and David Messer

Three teenagers, Sarah Mitchell, Adam Jacobs, and David Messer, were driving in Mitchell’s car at 2:30 a.m. in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mitchell was driving the car, Jacobs was in the front passenger se...

Q: One evening, Andrea Filer and her daughter were riding their horses

One evening, Andrea Filer and her daughter were riding their horses along Riley Hill Road, a public highway in the Town of Salem, New York. At the same time, Megan Adams was jogging along the same roa...

Q: Four friends, John Bertram, Matt Norden, Scott Olson,

Four friends, John Bertram, Matt Norden, Scott Olson, and Tony Harvey, all residents of Ohio, traveled to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to go snowmobiling. On their first day of snowmobiling, after...

Q: Zagat Survey, LLC publishes the famous Zagat series of dining,

Zagat Survey, LLC publishes the famous Zagat series of dining, travel, and leisure guides for different cities and locations. The Zagat restaurant guides lists and ranks each reviewed restaurant from...

Q: Curtis R. Wilhelm owned beehives and kept the hives on property

Curtis R. Wilhelm owned beehives and kept the hives on property he owned. John Black, who operated a honeybee business, contracted to purchase some beehives from Wilhelm. Black employed Santos Flores...

Q: One morning, after working at night, Tim Clancy was driving

One morning, after working at night, Tim Clancy was driving a Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck on State Road 231. Clancy fell asleep at the wheel of the truck. Robert and Dianna Goad, husband and wife, wer...