ASCM 650 - SPRING 2015 Prof: Lawrence Jordan III, Esq. HOMEWORK PROBLEM Guidelines: This is an individual homework assignment. Do not collaborate with your classmates. Please use the information presented in the course reading assignments to answer the questions and do not rely on outside sources. Please place your responses in a word document and save as last name, first initial (i.e. SmithJ), and post your document as an attachment in your assignment folder. Your document should be in essay format, error-free, graduate level composition (i.e. APA format should be followed, including cover sheet and references). Your answer should include a complete answer to the questions presented and your document should be between 3-5 pages total. PROBLEM While driving to visit friends in Baltimore, Chris was caught in a sudden blinding snow and ice storm. Chris pulled off the road in Howard County, Maryland, to seek emergency shelter for the night. Chris found a hotel near the exit of the Interstate, and drove into the parking lot to get a room to wait out the storm. Only the part of the parking lot directly in front of the hotel and the covered sidewalk by the front entrance were shoveled and relatively clear of ice and snow. The rest of the parking lot and sidewalks were untreated, and were covered with several inches of ice and snow. Chris left his dog, Tray, in the car while Chris registered for a room. Chris asked the desk clerk for a room near an exit to the parking lot so that it would be easy to walk Tray and to move suitcases into and out of the hotel. Although it was against hotel policy to assign rooms at the far end of the hotel in inclement weather unless all of the rooms close to the core area of the hotel were filled, the clerk assigned Chris to a room at the far end of the hotel after Chris insisted that the requested location was essential. The Clerk reminded Chris that the parking lot and sidewalks were untreated, and advised Chris to walk carefully. Chris parked the car near the exit at the far end of the hotel, and Chris walked Tray into the hotel. As he took Tray in, Chris slipped on the ice all the way back to the hotel. Chris went back outside to unpack the car. On the way back to the car, Chris slipped and fell on the ice and suffered a broken arm that required surgery. Chris wants to file a law suit against the hotel. Please answer the following: 1. What type of cause of action/tort should he file and what should he allege in his law suit? 2. Can he prove each of the tort elements necessary to be successful in his law suit? Why or Why not? (Note: You must provide an analysis on each of the elements necessary to bring the type of law suit) 3. What defenses does the hotel have, if any? (Note: You must provide an analysis of any potential defenses)