occurred to where one could file a suit. Intentional tort, Lee who is a customer of Buy-Mart begins shooting innocent shoppers with a rifle he is planning to purchase. One of Lee’s victims is a lady walking along with her husband in the next aisle over. As she falls to the ground her husband has a heart attack. A boy is also injured by a metal beam from the bullet ricochets but was unintentional; this is considered as an unintentional tort. Then the tort of outrage is also noticed in this scenario because
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what made this case criminal, along with the negligence of the Good Samaritan Home employers and the abuse intended by the teenage nursing aides. 2. What intentional torts do you think the nursing aides committed? Please give a definition for each intentional tort that you choose with an explanation of why you chose that tort. b. I believe the nursing aides committed assault and battery. “Assault meaning the threat of harm, and battery meaning the actual physical harm to a person” (Caldwell
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Synopsis of Tort Cases In this paper, you will find synopsizes of four tort cases. Each scenario will include the type of tort actions in the case, potential plaintiffs and defendants, elements of the tort claim that constitute the plaintiff’s claim as well as any defenses that the defendant may assert. Additionally, you will find the writer opinion as to how they believe the claim will be resolved along with the legal reasons for their belief. Scenario One The torts actions,
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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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The Case of Liebeck V. McDonalds Business Law & Ethics University of the People Term 4, 2017 The Case of the Really, Really Hot Coffee In 1994, 79 year old Ms. Stella Liebeck purchased some coffee from the drive through window at the local McDonalds restaurant. The coffee was heated to the usual high temperature of 88c. When Ms. Liebeck subsequently spilled her coffee on her lap and received burns on her legs and groin area. She was hospitalized for 8 days and underwent skin grafts to repair
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Recommended Sequence - Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws | | Full-time | | Year 1 | | Autumn session | | 200006.2 | Introduction to Law | | 200008.3 | Torts Law | | Two units from the Year 1 core Arts units listed below: | | 100958.2 | Australia and the World | | 100960.2 | Contemporary Society | | 100968.3 | Texts and Traditions | | 100846.2 | Analytical Reading and Writing | | Spring session |
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the tort of misrepresentation. There was an expressed warranty from the representative of Non-Linear Pro, which included a specific statement of fact that the editors at QTV would be “up and running in a day and a half” and that they would be “twice as fast” in their editing. This could entitle QTV to damages including the “benefit of the bargain,” or what QTV might have made had the video worked, and what it cost QTV in terms of worker hours. Non-Linear Pro could also be sued for the tort of negligence
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WORD COUNT 1648 1 Law, Accountability and Ethics in prescribing During my supervised practice in an outpatient clinic the non-medical prescriber I was with was asked by a colleague to prescribe for a patient on her behalf. In my role as a vascular clinical nurse specialist, I run nurse led clinics working alongside other nonprescribing colleagues seeing patients with peripheral vascular disease, this can range from patients with leg ulcers or diabetic foot ulceration with wound infections
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Ethics Paper ONE a. What course of action would you have suggested to Ren at the moment he learned of the material misstatement on the 2009 financial? State your reasoning by employing the utilitarian and deontological models. When Ren found out about the material misstatements on the 2009 financial statements, he should have reported it immediately to his audit engagement team. This decision would have benefited the users of the financial statements. The client would have had to issue a qualified
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preference can impact organizational ethics. Ethics are defined as the basic concepts and fundamental principles of right human conduct. It includes the study of universal values such as the essential equality of all men and women, human or natural rights, obedience to the law of land and concern for health and safety. Organizational ethics relates to how an organization responds to internal and external stimuli (Business Dictionary, 2011). Unfortunately, while ethics are made up of ‘basic concepts and
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