chapter 7 business law 1. Highlight the pertinent facts; 2. Identify the issue of law posed by the case problem. This will be in the form of a question based on a legal concept from the chapter. 3. What should be the decision in the case? (i.e. the answer to the issue)? 4. The reasoning for such decision. 2. Dr. Walter Sullivan was one of several plastic surgeons in Las Vegas visited by Julie Jones. Jones, an exotic dancer, sought plastic surgery to improve her ability to make money in her profession. After visiting Sullivan for a consultation, she then visited Dr. Joseph Bongiovi, Jr. During her consultation with Bongiovi, Jones mentioned her earlier visit with Sullivan. Bongiovi then told her that Sullivan had a patient die the previous week during the same procedure Jones sought. Bongiovi told her the death was the direct result of Sullivan's negligence. Despite Bongiovi's allegations, Jones saw Sullivan again and scheduled the surgery with him. Jones did, however, attend a prescheduled appoint with Bongiovi. During the appointment, at Jones's prompting, Bongiovi confirmed what he had said before - that Sullivan has recently been responsible for a patient's death during the same procedure Jones sought. Bongiovi's statements that Sullivan had a patient die and that Sullivan was being investigated were false. On the basis of the confirmation from Bongiovi, Jones called to cancel her surgical appointment with Sullivan. When Sullivan's office manager asked why she was cancelling the appointment, Joes said she had been told that Sullivan was under investigation for a patient's death. When Sullivan learned of the cancellation, he called Jones to find out who had made the statements; he was unsuccessful in obtaining a name. After speaking with Sullivan, Jones again called Bongiovi's office to receive confirmation about the allegation. Bongiovi's assistant confirmed that the statements were true. 3. Ralph Nader, who has been a critic of General Motors Corp. for many years, claims that when General Motors learned that Nader was about to publish a book entitled Unsafe at Any Speed, criticizing one of its automobiles, the company decided to conduct a campaign of intimidation against him. Specifically, Nader claims that GMC (a) conducted a series of interviews with Nader's acquaintances, questioning them about his political, social, racial, and religious views; (b) kept him under surveillance in public places for an unreasonable length of time including close observation of him in a bank; (c) caused him to be accosted by women for the purpose of entrapping him into illicit relationships; (d) made threatening, harassing, and obnoxious telephone calls to him; (e) tapped his telephone and eavesdropped by means of mechanical and electronic equipment on his private conversations with others; and (f) conducted a "continuing" and harassing investigation of him