GOV-455 Topic 1 "Legal Reasoning" Worksheet

Access Chapter 2 Assignments and Exercises #4 (page 36). Read the scenario and answer the questions that follow. Be sure to cite your references.

Consider the following hypothetical case: Ms. Grace Sanchez, your client, was recently dismissed from her position as Day Manager of Helman's, a large local department store. Ms. Sanchez is sixty-four years old. She was with the company for over thirty years. She began her career at Helman's as a clerk in the jewelry department. Ms. Sanchez believes Helman's dismissed her because she is approaching retirement age and they do not want to pay her a pension. Also read the case of Cancellier v. Federated Department Stores, 672 F.2d 1312 (9th Cir. 1981), found in Appendix F.

Do the following:

chart of the relevant, explanatory, and legally unimportant facts for the Sanchez fact pattern.

Relevant Facts

Explanatory Facts

Legally Unimportant Facts

b. What is the legal issue in the Sanchez case?

c. What was the legal issue in the Cancellier case?