1.Quest Resources, Inc., contracts with Ring Communications Corporation (RCC) for RCC to design and build an all-weather communications system for Quest's field operations. RCC builds the system, but it functions effectively only in good weather. Is this a breach of the contract? If so, what remedies does Quest have?

2.Dean, the president of Billing & Credit Company, promises to pay his employee Ewing, who is dangerously obese, $10 for every pound that he loses within the next eleven months. Ewing agrees, diets and exercises, loses 154 pounds, and asks Dean for $1,540. Dean refuses to pay, saying that he does not remember the promise, but that even if he did make it, there was no consideration, and Ewing's improved health is a sufficient benefit for his effort and sacrifice. Ewing files a suit against Dean. In whose favor is the court likely to rule, and why?

3. Matt offers to pay Lisa $1,000 if she will paint his house, insisting that the acceptance occur only by the act of painting the house rather than through Lisa's promise.Lisa thereafter begins to paint the house.Matt then attempts to revoke the offer after Lisa is approximately half way through painting the house.Assuming there is a valid contract, what can Lisa recover as damages, and why?

4. Carlos is a student at UCLA and agrees to rent an apartment from Larry in Westwood pursuant to a written and signed lease agreement with a two-year lease term commencing September 1, 2017 and monthly rent of $1,000.After a year at UCLA however, Carlos decides he wants to transfer to the business school at CSUSM and he accordingly tells Larry on June 1, 2018 both verbally and in writing that he intends to vacate the apartment on or before September 14, 2018.Although apartments are notoriously in short supply in Westwood and Larry could easily re-rent Carlos' apartment, Larry is angry at Carlos' early departure and immediately sues Carlos for breach of the rental agreement.Explain the legal principle that Larry relying on to sue Carlos before he is in breach of the lease agreement?What defense may Carlos have by Larry's failure to try to re-rent the apartment?