Employment Relations
Torts
Intellectual Property
Business Forms
Litigation and ADR
100
If an employee acts without authority and a third person justifiably relies on the employee’s authority, this is called
What is apparent authority?
100
When the containers of a product are not tamperproof, this is a(n) ________.
What is a defect in packaging?
100
Which of the following types of patents is valid for only 14 years?
What is a design patent?
100
________ is said to have occurred if a certificate of limited partnership was not properly filed.
What is defective formation?
100
In a litigation process, the party who files a complaint is called the ________.
What is the plaintiff?
200
When a physician performs an operation, this would be considered what type of contract?
What is a personal services contract
200
________ is liability without fault.
What is strict liability?
200
A ________ is a legal right that gives the author of qualifying subject matter the exclusive right to publish, produce, sell, license, and distribute the work.
What is a copyright?
200
A(n) ________ is a person or a corporation that is empowered to accept service of process on behalf of a corporation and is identified in the articles of incorporation.
What is a registered agent?
200
When a group of plaintiffs collectively brings a lawsuit against a defendant.
What is class action?
300
________ is the approval given by the employer to the unauthorized acts of an employee.
What is ratification?
300
________ is a doctrine that raises a presumption of negligence and switches the burden to the defendant to prove that he or she was not negligent.
What is res ipsa loquitur?
300
A ________ is a product formula, pattern, design, compilation of data, customer list, or other covert business information.
What is a Trade Secret?
300
________ refer to the formal documents that must be filed at the secretary of state's office of the state of organization of an LLC to form the LLC.
What is "Articles of Organization"?
300
The period in which a plaintiff must file a complaint against a defendant is governed by the ______________
What is the statute of limitations?
400
If Dereck Jeter while under contract decided to switch from the Yankees to the Mets, the Yankees best remedy would be
What is an injunction?
400
________ is the making of false statements about a competitor's products, services, property, or business reputation.
What is disparagement?
400
In terms of copyright law, the use of copyrighted material in a satire or parody exemplifies ________.
What is fair use?
400
A written document in which a shareholder authorizes a person to vote the shareholder's shares at the shareholders' meetings in the event of the shareholder's absence is known as a ________.
What is proxy?
400
________ are written questions submitted by one party to a lawsuit to another party.
What are interrogatories?
500
When a person changes his or her position in reliance on a promise, the person making the promise will be stopped from asserting that there is no consideration to enforce the contract. This is known as the doctrine of ________.
What is promissory estoppel
500
Sending an objectionable telegram to a third party and signing another's name constitutes the tort of ________.
What is intentional misrepresentation?
500
A competitor can lawfully use a rival's trade secret if the competitor discovers the trade secret by means of ________.
What is reverse engineering?
500
An LLC that was organized in Alabama and is operating in Texas with no operations outside the United States is considered a ________ in Texas.
What is a foreign limited liability company?
500
A(n) ________ asserts that based on supporting evidence outside the pleadings, there are no factual disputes to be decided by the jury, and the judge should apply the relevant law to the undisputed facts and decide the case.
What is a motion for summary judgment?
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