Questions from Business Law

Q: Pipe fittings join together pipes and help direct the flow of pressurized

Pipe fittings join together pipes and help direct the flow of pressurized water in pipeline systems. They are sold primarily to municipal water authorities and their contractors. Although there are se...

Q: Greg contracts to build a storage shed for Haney, who pays

Greg contracts to build a storage shed for Haney, who pays Greg in advance, but Greg completes only half the work. Haney pays Ipswich $500 to finish the shed. If Haney sues Greg, what will be the meas...

Q: Santonias Bailey was an employee of TitleMax of Georgia, Inc.,

Santonias Bailey was an employee of TitleMax of Georgia, Inc., in Jonesboro, Georgia. Bailey’s supervisor told him that TitleMax did not pay overtime, so he regularly worked off the clock. For example...

Q: Weyerhaeuser Company entered the Pacific Northwest’s hardwood lumber market in 1980.

Weyerhaeuser Company entered the Pacific Northwest’s hardwood lumber market in 1980. By 2000, Weyerhaeuser owned six mills processing 65 percent of the red alder logs in the region. Meanwhile, Ross-Si...

Q: TransWeb, LLC, makes respirator filters made of nonwoven fibrous material

TransWeb, LLC, makes respirator filters made of nonwoven fibrous material to be worn by workers at contaminated worksites. At a filtration industry exposition, TransWeb’s founder, Kumar Ogale, handed out...

Q: From 1999 through 2002, Todman & Company, CPAs, P

From 1999 through 2002, Todman & Company, CPAs, P.C., audited the financial statements of Direct Brokerage, Inc. (DBI), a broker-dealer in New York registered with the Securities and Exchange Commissi...

Q: An investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct involving minors and Jerry Sandusky

An investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct involving minors and Jerry Sandusky, former defensive coordinator for the Pennsylvania State University football team, led a grand jury to subpoe...

Q: Gladys Piper died intestate (without a will). At the time

Gladys Piper died intestate (without a will). At the time of her death, she owned miscellaneous personal property worth $5,150 and had in her purse $206.75 in cash and two diamond rings. Wanda Brown,...

Q: Plaintiffs Pavel Zissu and Aise Zissu bring suit [in this federal

Plaintiffs Pavel Zissu and Aise Zissu bring suit [in this federal district court] against the owner of the property where they resided, IH2 Property Illinois, L.P. The Zissus claim that after a Cook C...

Q: Jeffrey Stambovsky signed a contract to buy Helen Ackley’s home in Nyack

Jeffrey Stambovsky signed a contract to buy Helen Ackley’s home in Nyack, New York. After the contract was signed, Stambovsky discovered that the house was widely reputed to be haunted. The Ackley fam...