RPM Pizza, Inc., issued a check for $96,000 to Systems Marketing for an advertising campaign. A few days later, RPM decided not to go through with the deal and placed a written stop-payment order on the check. RPM and Systems had no further contact for many months. Three weeks after the stop-payment order expired, however, Toby Rierson, an employee at Systems, cashed the check. Bank One Cambridge, RPM's bank, paid the check with funds from RPM's account. The amount of the check was large, and the check was more than six months old (stale). The bank should therefore have verified the signature on the check according to standard banking procedures and the bank's own policies. Bank One did not do so, however. RPM filed a suit in a federal district court against Bank One to recover the amount of the check. Using the information presented in the chapter, answer the following questions. 1. How long is a written stop-payment order effective? What else could RPM have done to prevent this check from being cashed? 2. What would happen if it turned out that RPM did not have a legitimate reason for stopping payment on the check? 3. What are a bank's obligations with respect to stale checks? Should Bank One have contacted RPM before paying the check? Why or why not? 4. Assume that Rierson's indorsement on the check was a forgery. Would a court be likely to hold the