Resuming the law assignment help question series after part 4 in wordpress blog
http://assignmentdesign.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/law-assignment-help-questions-and-answers-part4/
1. Bill Hotrod customizes hotrods for local gear heads. His business entity is one of a duly established and managed LLC. One of the services he performs is to install a breaking system that will allow you to lock the breaks on one side of the vehicle causing it to turn sharply in the direction of the locked breaks. Sue Gofaster paid Bill to install break locks on her car. While driving safely down the street the break locks malfunctioned and she is sent flying into the other lane and has a head on collision with another vehicle.
Which of the following is true:
A. Would not make a difference, the out come is the same as in 1.
B. Sue can sue Grease and Bill’s LLC.
C. Sue can take all of the assets of the LLC but not Bill’s other personal
property assuming she wins her action.
D. B. and C. are correct.
E. A. and B. are correct.
2. Doris locks Phil in a first floor room. Phil sues Doris for false imprisonment. Which of the following is true?
A) Doris would escape liability if she let Phil out of the room after one hour.
B) According to some courts, Doris would escape liability if Phil slept through the entire period that the door was locked and thus was unaware that he was being detained.
C) Even if Phil could easily have escaped through an open window, Doris still is liable.
D) Doris would not be liable if Phil could have escaped by traveling two miles through a narrow, filthy, rat-infested sewer line that periodically floods with water.
3. Store owners' “conditional privilege” defense against intentional tort claims brought by detained shoplifting suspects, recognized by most states, usually
A) requires only that the store owner acted with reasonable cause in detaining the suspect.
B) requires only that the store owner detains the suspect for a reasonable length of time.
C) extends only to false imprisonment claims.
D) requires that the store owner act with reasonable cause, in a reasonable manner, and detain the suspect for only a reasonable length of time.
4. Which of the following might result in a “right of publicity” claim?
A) A character in a popular TV show holds up a picture of famed actor Brad Pitt during one episode.
B) A health food store uses a picture of Shaquille O'Neal, a well-known athlete, in its billboard advertisement.
C) An auto maker uses a “soundalike” of Barbara Streisand, a well-known singer, to sing a short song in one of its TV commercials.
D) Both b and c.
5. Which of the following is slander rather than libel?
A) A defamatory statue.
B) A defamatory TV broadcast.
C) A defamatory magazine article.
D) All of the above are libel rather than slander.
6. Russ, a well-known television actor uses an online dating service to meet eligible women in the Los Angeles
A) Public disclosure of private facts.
B) Defamation.
C) Right of publicity.
D) None of the above.
7. Which of the following would have to prove actual malice as a plaintiff in a defamation claim?
A) A newspaper article makes a false statement regarding former U.S. President Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs while he held office.
B) Popular movie actor Tom Cruise is subject of a magazine article in which a person interviewed falsely accuses him of having an extramarital affair during his marriage to movie actress Nicole Kidman.
C) IBM is falsely accused of issuing fraudulent profit statements to stockholders by a news reporter.
8. Dave tells Dora that Phil, a financial advisor, has been stealing money from his clients. Dora then repeats Dave's statement to Tom, telling Tom that the information comes from Dave. All these statements are oral, defamatory, and false. Phil sues Dave and Dora for defamation. Which of the following is true? Don't consider defenses and privileges.
A) Phil can recover against Dave and Dora without proving special damages.
B) Because Dora only repeated Dave's statement and identified Dave as its author, she can't be liable to Phil.
C) Because Dave only communicated his statement to Dora, and not to an appreciable number of people, he can't be liable to Phil.
D) Phil must prove special damages in order to recover against Dave and Dora.
9. Which of the following is conditionally privileged?
A) Statements made during legislative proceedings.
B) Statements made to protect the interests of others.
C) Statements made between husband and wife.
D) Statements made during judicial proceedings.
10. In defamation law's interaction with the First Amendment, a "public figure":
A) Includes ordinary people who voluntarily inject themselves into a matter of public controversy.
B) Is treated very differently from a "public official."
C) Only includes people who are celebrities.
D) Can recover in strict liability against a media defendant
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