Complete legal documents for business: Answer questions by using provided guide.

Project 1: Introduction to the Legal
Environment of Business
Step 3: Review Case One: Blue Mood
Clothing, Inc.
Now that you’ve finished your skills gap analysis and GAP survey, you
take some time to collect your thoughts and review the first case Vice
President Dodger assigned to you. First, you need an introduction to the
legal environment of business. Next, you open the Blue Mood Clothing,
Inc. case file to assess the details of this assignment.
Upon completing your initial review of the file, you begin thinking about
the legal issues contained in the file. In the next step, you will gather the
information you need to answer the questions from the VP.
Step 4: Gather and Analyze
Information
As you read through the materials, try to begin answering the questions
Vice President Dodger asked you. You will likely encounter many new
legal concepts, so take notes about which sections apply to this case so
that you can easily refer back to them when you begin to write your
presentation. The VP’s precise questions about the legal issues are as
follows:
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Can Colossal Corporation terminate Alex without any notice or a hearing?
Why or why not? This question relates to employment-at-will.
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Did Alex, Nick, Bill, or Juanita commit any crimes and, if so, which crimes
did each person commit? Fully explain your answer for each person as
you explore the subject of business criminal law.
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What defenses, if any, might the relevant persons allege in response to
the crimes you identified? Fully explain your answer for each person.
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Did Alex, Nick, Bill, or Juanita commit any intentional torts and, if so,
which intentional torts did each person commit? Read about the law of
tortsin order to make your determinations.
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What defenses, if any, might the relevant persons allege in response to
the intentional torts you identified? Fully explain your answer for each
person.
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Can anyone collect damages for the intentional torts? Who can collect and
whom would they sue? Detail the specific damages that may be available
to potential plaintiffs as you read about tort damages.
In the next step, you will formalize your thoughts so that they are ready
to put into your presentation.
Step 5: Focus on Your Rationale and
Conclusions: Create Your Outline
You’ve finished your research. You’ve reflected on how the facts and the
law come together in this situation. You’ve analyzed the possible
arguments and determined which seem most reasonable. Now it is time
to formulate these arguments, addressing all the issues raised by the
narrative in the Blue Mood Clothing, Inc. case file Vice President Dodger
gave you.
Outline your presentation to the leadership team, either on paper or in a
Word document; don’t make the PowerPoint yet. Review your outline to
make certain it covers all relevant points and progresses in a logical
order. Identify the major bullet points that you will highlight on your
slides, and allocate the appropriate supporting information to each bullet
point—make sure that you have adequately covered all the relevant
arguments or reasons needed to support them. In the next step, you’ll use
your outline to create the PowerPoint presentation for the VP.
Step 6: Communicate Your Findings
and Conclusions to the Vice
President of Colossal Corporation:
Create Your PowerPoint
You have finished getting all of your ideas organized surrounding the
Blue Mood Clothing case when you receive an email with delivery
instructions from Vice President Dodger:
INBOX (1 NEW EMAIL)
From: Kenneth Dodger, Vice President, Colossal Corporation
To: You
Just wanted to check in as you begin to communicate your findings and
conclusions on the Blue Mood Clothing case.
I’d like you to use your outline and research notes from your work on this
case to prepare a narrated PowerPoint for the senior leadership team. As
you will not deliver this in person, it will need to follow the form of an
asynchronous presentation.
Further, here is a list of additional requirements I need you to follow to
meet standard presentation protocol:
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Include a title slide, with your name on it, introducing the presentation.
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On the presentation slides, include only the major bullet points for each
issue.
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Include no more than 20 slides.
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Use your narration to provide the supporting rationale for each major
bullet point.
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Include a script of your narration in the notes section of the PowerPoint.
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Title your files using this protocol:
yourlastname_BlueMoodPowerPoint_date.
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The final slide must present a clear summary of your major conclusions
and any recommendations.
You should be prepared to answer questions about your presentation
after you have submitted it. That should be all for now.
Looking forward to seeing the final product,
Ken
Step 7: Review Case Two: Carz
Bazaar
Feeling proud of your growing knowledge of business law and your work
on the Blue Mood Clothing case, you move on to your next assignment.
You open the Carz Bazaar case file to review the facts of the situation.
Once you have fully assessed the situation in the Carz Bazaar case,
proceed to the next step, where you will gather the information you need
to analyze the legal questions of the case.
Step 8: Gather and Analyze
Information
As you read through the materials, try to begin answering the questions
posed below.
You will likely encounter many new legal concepts, so take notes about
which sections apply to this case so that you can easily refer back to them
when you begin to write your analysis.
In all legal cases, there are disputes about the facts and the law. In this
case, we can assume the facts stated in our case file are accurate, so we
just need to decide what law applies and how the law can be interpreted
to support the plaintiffs’ and defendant’s arguments. The issue of who
caused the accident has been settled. Wilson caused the accident, so the
issue before us is whether Wilson’s employer can be held responsible for
his actions.
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What are the arguments in favor of the plaintiffs (the accident victims)?
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What are the arguments in favor of the defendant (Carz Bazaar)?
Read about legal responsibilities of agents and employees to help you
answer these questions.
In the next step, you’ll formalize your thoughts so that they are ready to
put into your presentation.
Step 9: Create and Submit Your Legal
Analysis
As you begin to finalize your findings from the Carz Bazaar case, you receive an email from Vice
President Dodger:
INBOX (1 NEW EMAIL)
From: Kenneth Dodger, Vice President, Colossal Corporation
To: You
Good to see your continued progress on these cases.
As you prepare to submit your findings for the Carz Bazaar incident, I wanted to give you some clear
delivery instructions.
As in the previous case, I’d like you to use your outline and research notes from your work on this
case to prepare your written analysis.
Maintaining company procedure, I’d also like you to meet the following requirements for this
deliverable:
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Please divide your analysis into two parts: Part I: Arguments for the Plaintiffs and Part II:
Arguments for the Defendant.
Support your conclusion with references to legal principles and laws. Cite references to
course materials and cases using APA format.
The analysis should be no more than seven pages (double spaced, 12-point font; the
reference list does not count towards the page limit).
Title your file using this protocol: yourlastname_CarzBazaar _date.
Following this submission, I would like you to participate in a discussion with your fellow Colossal
Company colleagues to see if we can reach a consensus about the winner of this case.
I hope your work to this point has been rewarding. I’ve always found that consideration and
appreciation of ethical practice in a global market is the key to successful business.
Best,
Ken
Discussion with Colleagues
After your careful analysis of the case in the previous steps, Vice
President Dodger would like your opinion on the likely outcome of the
case if it were to be brought to court and decided by a judge. Provide a
full legal analysis and explanation for the outcome you expect. Discuss
your opinion with your colleagues so the VP can evaluate any consensus
in the assessment of the facts.
Go to the discussion entitled Carz Bazaar, and create a new topic entitled
“Carz Bazaar [insert your last name].” Decide in favor of either the
plaintiffs or defendant and explain why you made this decision. To
complete this step, post your own decision, read the opinions of your
classmates, and respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
These posts can be as long or as short as you need in order to effectively
make your points
Step 10: Discuss Carz Bazaar Case
Outcome
Discussion with Colleagues
After your careful analysis of the case in the previous steps, Vice
President Dodger would like your opinion on the likely outcome of the
case if it were to be brought to court and decided by a judge. Provide a
full legal analysis and explanation for the outcome you expect. Discuss
your opinion with your colleagues so the VP can evaluate any consensus
in the assessment of the facts.
Go to the discussion entitled Carz Bazaar, and create a new topic entitled
“Carz Bazaar [insert your last name].” Decide in favor of either the
plaintiffs or defendant and explain why you made this decision. To
complete this step, post your own decision, read the opinions of your
classmates, and respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
These posts can be as long or as short as you need in order to effectively
make your points.
Course Resource
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Blue Mood Clothing, Inc
Notice: Contains Confidential Information
Blue Mood Clothing, Inc., a company devoted to producing positive,
mood-altering apparel and various other clothing items, is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Colossal Corporation. Blue Mood Clothing’s most
famous and best-selling product is the Breezer—a skin-tight shirt with an
air ventilation system that allows the breeze to pass through the shirt.
Colossal Corporation has uncovered an incident of theft at Blue Mood
Clothing: approximately one month ago, over five thousand Breezers
were stolen from Blue Mood Clothing’s Atlantic City, New Jersey,
warehouse.
Shortly after the theft was discovered, Colossal Corporation’s internal
investigator, Bill, found an online advertisement for the sale of exactly
five thousand Breezers, described as shirts with an “air ventilation
system that allows a cooling breeze to pass through the shirt.” Bill called
the contact on the website and set up a meeting with the seller, Nick
Johnson. When Bill, under the guise of being an interested purchaser of
the Breezers, inquired about Nick’s distributor, Nick did not hesitate to
reveal that he purchased the Breezers from Juanita Winfrey, his long-time
business associate. Bill inspected the five thousand Breezers, and
confirmed they were indeed the same Breezer products that were stolen
from the warehouse. He then requested a price quote from Nick and
asked Nick to hold the products for him for seven days. Nick agreed.
That same afternoon, before additional investigation, Bill sent an email
intended solely to be sent to the vice president of Blue Mood Clothing,
Inc., but he accidentally hit “reply all” to a previous message, and sent the
email to every employee at Blue Mood Clothing, Inc., over two hundred
people. The email stated, among other things, that “Nick Johnson was a
thief and had an extensive criminal record in New Jersey. He stole the five
thousand Breezers. I will continue my investigation tomorrow.” This
statement was not true. Nick’s old friend from high school, who worked at
Blue Mood Clothing, Inc., forwarded this message to Nick, who became
worried about his business and reputation.
Bill arranged a meeting with Juanita the very next day, during which he
posed as an interested clothing buyer. He asked Juanita if she had any
Breezer distributors she could recommend. Juanita said that she works
directly with a Blue Mood Clothing sales agent named Alex Ridgefield, and
that she recently purchased five thousand Breezers from him at a fair
price. Juanita also said that Alex is quite interested in expanding his
business with her, and would provide Bill with a great deal.
After his meeting with Juanita, Bill checked the personnel records at Blue
Mood Clothing and identified Alex Ridgefield as a low-level warehouse
employee who has been with the company for over 20 years. Alex’s
personnel record is spotless, with no prior personnel issues and no
complaints. Alex is an at-will employee who is in charge of night security
at the Atlantic City warehouse and has no history in sales. As a night
security guard, Alex is responsible for protecting the warehouse from
theft and is not permitted to sell products. After further investigation, Bill
found company emails between Juanita and Alex in which Alex posed as a
sales agent. Reading the emails, it became obvious that neither Juanita
nor Nick knew that the five thousand Breezers were stolen, and that both
bought the Breezers for fair-market value. Bill then collected video from
all of Alex’s shifts and was able to locate a film of Alex packing the
Breezers into his personal minivan and driving them out of the
warehouse parking lot.
Your task is to research the legal issues surrounding the stolen property.
It is up to you to decipher which laws have been broken and deduce any
potential remedies. Vice President Dodger wants you to prepare a
narrated PowerPoint to present this information to the senior leadership
team. Because of the sensitive nature of this case, the vice president has
asked you to operate with total confidentiality and without involving the
legal department.
Course Resource
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Carz Bazaar
Notice: Contains Confidential Information
Colossal Company subsidiary Carz Bazaar, a new and used car dealership,
hired Charles Wilson to perform various duties, such as cleaning and
gassing vehicles, moving vehicles from one lot to another, and
maintaining the showroom and vehicle lots. In this position, Wilson had
access to keys to the vehicles through a key-control procedure. Under this
procedure, an attendant keeps the keys in a control shack. When any
employee wants to move a company vehicle, the attendant inputs
information into a template request form. The information includes the
date, time, stock number of the vehicle, name of the employee checking
out the vehicle, and the destination of the vehicle. For example, the
vehicle might be taken to a body shop for repairs, to a gas station, or to a
company lot at a different location. Every time an employee checks out a
vehicle, the reason must be for company business use. It is not necessary
to put the expected return time on the form unless a vehicle was expected
to be gone for a long time. Once the attendant has completed the form,
she gives the keys to the employee who has requested them. When the
vehicle is returned, the attendant indicates in the log that the vehicle was
returned and replaces the keys. Sometimes vehicles are gone for more
than one day. Some vehicles may be removed permanently if they are sold
from another lot. In these cases, the managers of the other lots call to let
the attendant know that the vehicle will not be coming back. Sometimes
employees drive cars back and leave the keys with other employees to
return to the attendant. This practice was acceptable to the dealership.
One day when Gina Mitchell was the attendant in charge, Wilson asked
her if he could use a car for 30 minutes on his lunch break to go to his
mother’s house. The attendant told him it was okay as long as he brought
it back because, otherwise, she could get in trouble. Since Wilson only
wanted the car for 30 minutes and she trusted him, she did not make any
entry about this trip on the computer. Wilson took the car and left. On his
way back to the dealership, Wilson rear-ended a car stopped at a stop
light, causing injuries to the driver and a passenger. Wilson told a police
officer at the scene of the accident that he was on a lunch break from his
job and that he had permission to drive the car, but his boss was not
aware he had the car.
The injured driver and passenger sued Carz Bazaar on the grounds that it
was responsible for the injuries caused by Wilson.

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