Part 1 - Fact Situation: Identification of Legal Issues

Instructions:Identify the legal issues and provide a clear one- or two-sentence statement of each legal issue presented.An example of a properly stated issue based on the facts in the Prologue would be " Did QPI violate the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by paying Maggie and other women less than Bill and other men for equal work?"Note that you do not need to know all the facts, and you do not need to try to answer the question presented; you only need to identify the issue and cite the relevant law(s) or legal theory.You should list a legal issue even ifpretending that you were a juror hearing the issue in courtyou do not believe there has been an actual violation of the law.Going back to the example from the Prologue, even if you believe that QPI should be found not guilty of violating the Equal Pay Act for paying Maggie less than Bill, you should still list the issue.In other words, you should list an issue if you think that a reasonable attorney working at QPI would want to research the issue.You should demonstrate that you can identify and clearly state legal issues based on what you read in the Beatty textbook and what we discussed in class.

3c.After a busy morning, Larry went to lunch at a bar down the road from QPI's offices.He began to talk with the other patrons and had quite a few drinks.As it turned out, one of the people eating lunch at the bar was a regular customer of QPI.Larry loudly boasted that he could get anyone in the bar special pricing on QPI products "for this afternoon only."Although the customer could see that Larry was clearly drunk, Larry insisted on selling a shipment of 1,000 high-end fashion eyewear lenses to the customer at a steep discount.The customer wrote up a contract with all of the necessary information, signed it, and gave it to Larry.Larry signed the contract and ordered another drink. Larry continued drinking at the bar telling the bartender that he needed to stay to make additional sales for QPI.The bartender kept giving Larry drinks (some of them free) because Larry's antics were so entertaining that they were drawing a crowd of paying patrons.Larry's "sales activity" ended when Larry was dancing on the bar and fell on another patron, smashing the patron's head onto a stool and breaking two of his teeth.The patron scheduled an emergency appointment with a dentist and got his teeth repaired for $17,525.The patron e-mailed a copy of the bill to Larry the following week, asking to be reimbursed, and copying the Human Resources department at QPI and the owner of the bar.The patron's e-mail said: "If Larry does not pay, I hope one of your businesses will do the right thing and cover my dentist's bill."