Posted: December 20th, 2021

Devry MGMT520 final exam

1.(TCOs D, E, F) Benjamin is a long-time key salesman for
Morton and Dunderfield, a business supply company in Eastern Pennsylvania.
The company decides to change its formal employer/employee relationship with
all of its sales people, including Benjamin. Instead of compensating them
with salary and a bonus based on quarterly sales, they change the
relationship to that of an independent contractor who earns a sizeable
percentage commission each month. With the change in this relationship,
Morton and Dunderfield require all of their sales people to sign employment
contracts which contain a clause that states upon leaving Morton and
Dunderfield’s employ, they will not contact any former customers for a period
of two (2) years. Benjamin, fearing he will lose his job, signs the
agreement. After the first month, he realizes he will earn much less that he
formerly did.
He seeks your advice on his options.
(Points : 15)

Question 2. 2.(TCOs B, C, G, I) Lonestar Trucking, a large freight
carrier servicing the Southwest, learns from reading in the industry trade
magazine that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has
proposed a regulation change. The regulation, proposed pursuant to a statute
that restricts drivers from operating/driving a truck for more than twelve
(12) hours a day, will now require drug testing of any driver involved in an
accident. The regulation was proposed due to political pressure from Mothers
Against Impaired Driving (MAID), a group dedicated to eliminating deaths due
to people driving while impaired. Lonestar Trucking is concerned, not just
about the costs of implementing such a regulation, but how it will comply
with its requirements since accidents often occur far from their base of
operations. Lonestar Trucking’s employees and their union are also very upset
with the proposal. They are concerned that the field drug tests used by
police officers are notorious for giving “false positive” results, and that
the proposed regulation will require that a test be given even when “the
other diver” is clearly at fault.
What should Lonestar Trucking do regarding the proposed change? (Points : 15)

Question 3. 3.(TCO C) Three professors from Keller’s Illinois campus,
Favre, Bush, and Clinton, decide to visit XYZ Go-kart facility together in
Minnesota. This decision is made after a lengthy faculty brunch, at which
unlimited alcoholic mimosas were served. XYZ Go-kart advertises at the
college’s various campuses and, in fact, the professors use their faculty
discount at the facility. At the facility signs are posted everywhere in bold:
“BY PARTICIPATING IN Go-KART RACING, YOU VOLUNTARILY ASSUME THE RISK OF ANY
DEATH OR INJURY THAT MAY RESULT. “ Additionally, the professors hurriedly
sign a contract, which states: “YOU ARE GIVING UP ALL LEGAL RIGHTS”; “XYZ
WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY NEGLIGENCE RESULTING IN YOUR INJURY OR
DEATH”; and “THE PARTIES AGREE THAT ANY POSSIBLE LEGAL ACTION WILL BE HEARD
IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.”
Professor Favre, who lives in Wisconsin, is sick and sweating profusely after
consuming a great deal of alcohol. He decides not to race. He suspects that
he is having a minor reaction as he is diabetic and drank more than he
intended. In the Waiting Area, which is located next to the track, he takes
off his helmet. There is a sign posted that says “KEEP YOUR RACE HELMET ON
WHILE IN THE WAITING AREA!”
Clinton and Bush, who dislike each other for unknown reasons, are the only
ones on the track. They use go-carts manufactured by PrimoKarts. As they
begin the race they drive very aggressively. Unbeknownst to either party,
Ritchie, XYZ’s mechanic, fed up with low pay, did not do the usual morning
inspection of the brakes and tires on either vehicle that morning. XYZ had
been contemplating firing Ritchie due to his erratic work habits. XYZ
instructed Ritchie to inspect the PrimoKarts daily as they never trusted
their brake mechanism. PrimoKarts are regularly marketed to amusement parks.
Their instruction manual states that they are not to be used for racing.
After two laps, Clinton’s brakes fail as he tries to aggressively pass Bush.
He crashes into Bush’s kart near the waiting area. The brakes on both
vehicles fail to hold. A tire dislodges at a high-rate of speed, and hits
Professor Favre in the head, rendering him unconscious and bleeding from head
injuries. His helmet is lying on the ground nearby. An ambulance is called.
The medical technicians, seeing the head injuries, fail to notice the medical
alert bracelet on Professor Favre’s wrist. At the hospital, Favre dies from
insulin shock and other complications due to his diabetes while the emergency
room doctor was doing a procedure to prevent blood clots and a possible
stroke from the head injury. At autopsy, it was later learned that Professor
Favre had been rendered brain dead by accident at the XYZ Go-kart facility.
(a) What claims may Professor Favre’s widow bring against the various
parties?
(b) What defenses might each party bring against the possible claims asserted
by Professor Favre’s widow?
(c) In what state should the case be brought?
(Points : 30)

Question 4. 4.(TCOs A, D, E) Judy Collinsworth, a then-unknown folk
singer, signed a three album recording contract with Mercury Apollo Music,
Inc. Mercury Apollo Music was a boutique label specializing in folk artists.
Collinsworth’s first album for Mercury Apollo was moderately successful. The
second album, unfortunately, was panned by the critics and did not sell.
Mercury Apollo Music was acquired by NastiCondiMedia, Inc. NastiCondiMedia,
in an effort to re-vitalize Collinsworth’s career, encouraged her to leave
the folk style she was committed to and do more commercially viable pop
material. Collinsworth rejected this request. Furious with NastiCondiMedia,
Collinsworth wanted to end the contract. On her own, with what remaining personal
funds she had left, she immediately went to an independent recording studio
and did sessions toward a third album without approval or consent by
NastiCondiMedia. Using her concert band, she recorded tracks for over 30
songs. Due to the financial failure of Collinsworth’s second album and her
recent unsuccessful concert tour, NastiCondiMedia did not do the final
production work on Collinsworth’s third album.
Collinsworth then entered into a contract with EasyListening Communications,
Inc. She began recording a new folk album with EasyListening in conjunction
with a concert tour that they financed and produced. At her concerts,
Collinsworth would regularly introduce the new material that would be on her
new album.
Shortly after the concert tour began, NastiCondiMedia brings suit against
Judy Collinsworth and EasyListening Communications, Inc.
(a) What causes of action might NastiCondiMedia bring against Collinsworth
and EasyListening?
(b) What causes of action might Collinsworth and EasyListening bring against
NastiCondiMedia?
(c) What types of relief might either party seek? (Points : 30)

Question 5. 5.(TCOs A, B, F, H)
PART A
Paul and Thomas Hamilton, brothers, are college students and web designers.
While at the University of Megalopolis, a private, for-profit college in the
“Quad State” area, they started an online chat service called LinkTime. Paul
attended and resided at the college’s campus in the State of Quadrahenria.
Thomas, who was on probation during college for a low level felony drug
conviction, could not be a resident student and took classes at the campus in
the Commonwealth of New Guernsey campus. The chat service began by putting
information from the school’s student directory online, and offering blog,
chat and message board features. LinkTime was such a hit that within a year,
the school advised the brothers that they had to remove LinkTime from the
university’s server as it was utilizing too many resources. This was not a
problem as the Hamilton found advertisers, so they were able to move LinkTime
to a private server without charging user fees. In fact, LinkTime was earning
so much revenue that the Hamilton brothers were able to pay themselves and
the six friends who helped them operate it salaries. The Hamilton brothers
are graduating from the University of Megalopolis and will be attending
separate graduate programs. Paul will attend Quadrahenria State University,
and Thomas the College of New Guernsey. As LinkTime is so successful, the
brothers not only plan to expand it to the two new colleges that they are
attending, but to as many other colleges within the four states comprising
the “Quad State” area as possible. They even have hopes of “going national.”
As part of their plan to expand to other campuses, they expect to recruit a
student from each of the new schools “to get them in.” They wish to formalize
LinkTime by organizing it as a proper business. The brothers would like to
maintain a majority interest in the business, give about 20 percent to the
six friends from their undergraduate days who helped them run the service,
and use the remaining interest in the business to attract other investors and
use employee incentives.
They seek your advice on (a) the form of business they should use, (b) who
might have a claim on the business, and (c) how they might protect themselves
from claims regarding a computerized internet platform?

PART B
LinkTime has been a phenomenal success for over ten years. They are now a
worldwide social networking phenomenon. Over the years and the various
incarnations of the business enterprise, they are now a corporation with just
under 100 shareholders. In anticipation of a public offering, they have just
completed a private stock offering and allowed several of the initial equity
owners to exercise stock options. The Hamilton brothers each exercised
options to purchase 10,000 shares for $5 a share. Also in anticipation of the
public offering, pursuant to the early intervention drug plea he made while
in college, Thomas Hamilton had his conviction expunged. In addition,
LinkTime sold $10 million in two year advertising contracts, which would
allow the clients to back out for a 90 percent refund. These unusual
contracts increased their current revenue by 15%. As LinkTime is such a
phenomenon, the hype regarding the public offering has been enormous. Even
college students are attempting to buy the stock. Days before the public
offering, the following occurred: (a) a broker at their underwriter,
Silversmith & Baggs, showed a pension fund director a draft version of
the prospectus; (b) Paul sold 1000 shares of the stock that he purchased
through the stock option plan for $45 a share, telling the private investor
that the issue price for the public offering would be at least $60 a share;
and (c) several of the people who bought stock in the private offering sold
it at a nice profit. The initial public stock offering had many problems. The
NASDAQ computer system, which was implemented pursuant to a recent regulation
change by the Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC), could not keep up
with the demand. The system could not accurately report the price, and many
day traders, including Big Profit Hedge Fund, lost money. Big Profit had
formally filed its opposition to the SEC’s regulation when it was proposed.
After the public offering was completed, LinkTime stock stabilized at $40 a
share, well below the initial offering price of $70 a share. In light of the
fiasco of the public offering and the bad press that it generated, users
began to drop LinkTime in favor of a new, upstart rival service offered by
TronCom. Fearful that the new advertisers would back out of their contracts,
the Hamilton brothers sold a great deal of their stock.
What issues does LinkTime, its officers, and stockholders face under (a)
state securities law, (b) the Securities Act of 1933, and (b) the Securities
and Exchange Act of 1934? (Points
: 60)

Question 6. 6.(TCOs A, D, E) Jane worked at the local country club pool
as a lifeguard, not a swim teacher, for the summer of 2013. Jane was a public
school physical education teacher. The country club did not do a background
check or confirm any references when they hired her. They relied on the
“say-so” of Jane’s brother, a member of the country club board of directors.
The country club only did a cursory Internet search of the state’s Department
of Education website to verify that she had a valid teaching certificate.
When one of the swim instructors unexpectedly quit one day, she took over the
class. Initially, the class went well. Eventually, Jane also took over
coaching the club’s competitive swim team. When she became the swimming
coach, Jane effectively stopped “teaching” the swim classes. Instead, she had
all the swimmers in the classes do races and train for competitive meets
during the 30 minute lessons. Jane had done this many times during the
summer. Her boss, the country club director, knew this and, as the swim team
was winning, ignored complaints from parents and students. Jane raced with
the swimmers and pushed the winners out of the way when they tried to touch
the side of the pool so that Jane’s team would win each time. This was not
the first time that Jane had injured swimmers. Last year, she was arrested
for physically abusing a child she coached at her school. Although the
criminal charges were dropped, Jane is on administrative leave from her
public school job until an administrative hearing with the state Department
of Education can be held in the fall. The incident was reported in several
local papers, and her administrative suspension is listed on the state’s
database.
Several of the children, ages 6–8, reported to their parents that they had
been physically assaulted by Jane while in swim class for not “working hard
enough!” The children had bruises on their shoulders. In addition, Jane began
“approaching” an 18-year-old college student who worked as a lifeguard and
Helped Jane with the coaching. Over time, Jane’s “advances” toward the
young man became very aggressive. Jane continued even though the young man
asked her to stop. In fact, after the young man told Jane to stop, as he felt
harassed, Jane hired another lifeguard to Help her with the coaching. The
country club director was aware of this situation, but as the swim team was
winning, he took the position that it was an interpersonal issue that the two
should workout among themselves.
Several parents brought suit against the local country club, Jane, and the
country club director. The young lifeguard has also brought suit. The local
country club pool alleges that it is not liable. Discuss the ethical,
liability, and agency issues presented by this matter, and all defenses
available to the local country club pool.
(Points : 30)

Question 7. 7.(TCOs G and I) In the 1930s, after immigrating to the U.S.
from Ireland at the onset of World War II, Shamus and Mary McCream opened a
bakery in Boston. They specialized in snack cakes. McCream Cup Cakes became
so popular in the area that the family stopped being actual bakers and became
manufacturers/ food processors of the snack cakes on a regional basis. After
returning from the war, their son Steve completed college and began working
in television advertising in the early 1950s. Steve approached his parents
and his older brother Tom, who was now running the business, about the
possibilities of advertising and “going national.” The family liked the idea
and began advertising and expanding. In addition, to fuel the expansion, they
offered retailers price discounts and other incentives if they prominently
positioned the store displays set-up by McCream rack jobbers. By the 1960s,
they were a national brand, controlling over 80 percent of the snack food
industry.
In the 1970s, with the advent of the hippie counter-culture and the
back-to-Earth movement, a new competitor made an impact on the McCream
business. The company, Healthy Snacks, began advertising that their products
only used natural ingredients. They even began running a commercial in which
a mother and child compared their Healthy Snacks with a lampooned product
named “Cup Cake McCrumbs,” stating that it tasted like poison and dog food!
Tiny-Big- Brian, a counter-culture pop star with a late night UHF and cable
show, joined in on the controversy created by the commercial and stated that
he did not understand how people, “could buy such poisonous dog food and
serve it to their children as snacks!” Market studies showed that McCream Cup
Cakes sales suffered. As a result, McCream began a more aggressive shelf
space and display marketing campaign to combat Healthy Snacks’s television
advertising. McCream’s marketing efforts were successful. By also offering
volume discount incentives, they had prevailed upon retailers in their
traditional East Coast and Midwest markets to prominently display their
products. To counter this strategy, Healthy Snacks offered a deep discount to
WaySafeMart, a Southwest and West Coast discount chain, in exchange for an
agreement to exclusively sell only their snack foods.
In reality, McCream Cup Cakes used only FDA approved ingredients and
preservatives and were made in American plants that always passed
inspections. In contrast, although Healthy Snacks’s pilot plant was in
Florida, it had subcontracted the bulk of its production to a plant in the
Dominican Republic. As a result, to maintain a level of quality, Healthy
Snacks used the maximum amount of preservatives allowed under the law of the
Dominican Republic for the imported product. The level was so high, reactions
to the food were often reported. The levels were higher than those allowed by
FDA regulations, but allowed per an agricultural import/export treaty between
the United States and the Dominican Republic. Several people who ate these
Healthy Snacks required emergency room visits. A child in Georgia, with food
allergy problems, even died. Her parents served her the snack, relying on the
advertising, not knowing that some of the natural ingredients used in the
Dominican Republic-made product were dangerous to her.
The McCream family seeks your advice and opinion regarding:
(1) Healthy Snacks’s advertising campaign.
(2) The marketing and distribution campaigns both companies have engaged in.
(3) The liability issues Healthy Snacks faces regarding their use of food
manufactured outside of the United States.(Points
: 30)

Question 8. 8.(TCOs A, E, F) John and Janet Fonda, siblings and actors,
decide to retire after years on the road. They remember a town in New Jersey
they were familiar with from their travels. From the internet, they learn of
a farm a few miles outside of town that seems ideal. There is a great house
and lots of land. The Fondas wish to convert the farm to a restaurant-hotel
with a dinner theater. They contact the realtor by phone, and make
arrangements to buy the parcel. The Fondas plan on traveling to New Jersey
prior to the closing to look things over, but are unable to do so due to
their touring schedule. The realtor, whose commission is technically paid by
the proceeds to the seller, and who has a listing contract with the seller,
advises the Fondas that she will handle everything. New Jersey custom, law,
and practice does not require a purchaser of land to have an attorney. The
realtor does only the bare minimum needed for title to transfer to the
Fondas. On their behalf, she only has a minimal title search and minimal
inspections done, and she obtains a minimal coverage title insurance policy.
As the area near the farm was once occupied by a large chemical plant, when
the realtor represents local purchasers, as a precaution, she advises the
buyers to get the maximum possible title search and title insurance, and to
get all possible inspections done. It is her regular practice to caution
local purchasers who she represents about the former chemical plant.
After closing on the property, the Fondas learn of the old chemical plant.
They seek your advice as to their liability and the liability of any other
parties. (Points : 30)

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