Employer's Duty of Care and Issues of Compensation Jakes actions are within the scope of his employment as manager servicing. Being a manager, Jake is responsible for the end to end and orderly running of his department, including meeting the outputs expected and he cannot take shelter under ‘being overworked’. He has to plan his departmental functioning in a manner to cause minimum disruptions for meeting the business objectives of Herman. It is possible he has been working overtime which might
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Assignment 2: JPMorgan Chase Aaron L Gardner Leg100 Instructor: Keith Smith 08/22/2013 In the summer of 2012, JPMorgan Chase, the biggest U.S. bank, announced trading losses from investment decisions made by its Chief Investment Office (CIO) of $5.8 billion. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was provided falsified first quarter reports that concealed this massive loss. Discuss how administrative agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Commodities Futures
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The remainder of the paper presents a new architecture, combining law and technology, to deal with trespass in cyberspace. Section 8 establishes the goals to be realized by the proposal, and Section 9 defines the precise language of the conceptual terms to be used. Section 10 proposes a legal and technical architecture utilizing the concepts of entities, control, and containers to prevent and govern unauthorized access in cyberspace. In section 11, the merits of this regime are evaluated in terms
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ANSWER TO PART 1: A) The first lawsuit that Sebastian can bring against Poorich supermarket would be tort of negligence. The general principle of tort of negligence is, a person through his act or omission causes damage or injury to another person in situations where it was foreseeable. In the case of Sebastian, the manager of the Poorich supermarket owes Sebastian and his two sons a duty of care as a customer. The concept of duty of care generally known as the ‘neighbour’s principle’ is effectively
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Case 1 1. An agent is a person (which can include an entity, like a corporation, partnership, or LLC) who acts on behalf of and subject to the control of another by authority from him. The category of agent can affect their liability to any claims and the two main categories of agent: General agent: a general agent is an agent authorized by the principal to conduct a series of transactions involving continuity of service, like a manager of a business. A general agent does not require fresh
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A. Torts 1. Compensatory and Punitive Damages Tort law involves civil liability between private parties. A plaintiff who wins a tort suit usually recovers the actual damages or compensatory damages that she suffered because of the tort. Depending on the facts of the case, these damages may be for direct and immediate harms, such as physical injuries, medical expenses, and lost pay and benefits, or for harms as intangible as loss of privacy, injury to reputation, and emotional distress. In
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Amerra Bukhari 11/25/2013 Section 1: The term negligence means to fail to practice the reasonable care toward people or property,which results in the harm of people or property.In negligence cases,the plaintiff is the person suing and the defendant is the one accused.They are fighting in a civil court,the plaintiff has to prove that the defendant was negligent in a situation by using the four elements.The four elements are: duty,breach,causation
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Part 1 – Fact Situation: Identification of Issues 1. a. Did QPI violate Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by engaging in transactions with DOA to boost their financial reports? Was Nouv’s behavior unethical when he tried to bribe Betty into completing the draft and deal in a way that made the transactions look legitimate? b. Is the cooperation between QPI and DOA on pricing (price fixing) and segmenting product sales to customers (market division/Refusal to deal) a horizontal
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Question 1 Jean is strictly liable if Kennel, the dog, bites Mary if Jean knew that the animal was dangerous or had a potential to be harmful to others. Since Jean is housing the dog outside in a separate building, not even in fenced yard, I would say that Jean knew Kennel was not very friendly had could possibly harm neighbors or others. Therefore, Jean is strictly liable for the dog biting Mary. Jean is, also, strictly liable is Louis, the tiger, bites Mary. People who keep wild animals are
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Business Law Contract and negligence Done by: Name.............................................................................. College Id....................................................................... TABLE OF CONTENTS Question 1.1................................................................................page 3 Question 1.2.....................................................
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