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WILDCARD
100
This is the means by which a state may obtain personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant who has merely had sufficient minimum contacts with the state.
What is a Long Arm statute?
100
This default source of contract law is authoritative when a dispute arises concerning the sale of hockey sticks.
What is the Uniform Commercial Code, Article 2?
100
This provision of law imposes strict financial disclosure requirements for corporations, and authorizes subtanstially increased penalties--including imprisonment for up to 20 years--for violations discovered.
What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?
100
This is the section of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code that permits an individual debtor to liquidate and surrender his personal assets in order to be discharged from most outstanding debt claims against him.
What is Chapter 7?
100
This business form allows an owner to invest in, and participate in, in the business without being exposed to personal liability or double taxation.
What is an LLC?
200
This constitutionality of a discriminatory law or policy will be reviewed by the court under the rational basis test, intermediate scrutiny test, or the strict scrutiny test, to determine whether this constitutional right has been illegally violated.
What is equal protection?
200
This equitable doctrine is sometimes applied to prevent manifest injustice where a statement is reasonably relied upon even though it is technically unenforceable.
What is promissory estoppel?
200
This activity causes employers to be subject to Federal employment laws such as the FLSA, NLRA, and ERISA.
What is engaging in activities affecting interstate commerce?
200
This federal statute regulates current and future generation, transportation, and disposal of hazardous waste, and it permits private plaintiffs or the EPA to hold all participants in this process jointly and severally-liable for the costs of environmental clean up.
What is CERCLA (the "Superfund")?
200
Power in an agent which is created by a third party's perception of the Principal's words or conduct.
What is apparent authority?
300
Absent some outrageous circumstance, this provision of law would protect a defendant from having to admit a police officer who asked to enter a party to which the officer was not invited, and for which the officer did not have a warrant.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
300
This common law principle requires that an offeree consent to each and every term of a given offer (without adding any new terms) in order to create a valid acceptance.
What is the "mirror-image rule"?
300
This is a state-administered regime through which an employee may recover compensation for injuries suffered while on the job without having to show any proof of wrongdoing or fault.
What are worker's compensation laws?
300
This is a process by which a creditor may request an order of the court telling a debtor's employer to direct a percentage of wages earned to the creditor or face civil sanction itself.
What is wage garnishment?
300
This is the first name of Professor Whitehead's new-born daughter.
What is Evelyn?
400
This class of crime is punishable by imprisonment for over 12 months.
What is a felony?
400
It is an inducement that is sufficient to support a legally-bidning promise or a performance from another.
What is consideration?
400
This is the federal administrative body that monitors compliance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
400
This federal statute was created to prohibit, among other things, anticompetitive price discrimination, tying contracts, and conglomerate mergers.
What is the Clayton Act?
400
This legal doctrine provides that U.S. courts should not question the legality of the actions a foreign government takes within its own national borders.
What is the Act of State doctrine?
500
This affirmative defense would be most likely to defeat a claim made by one player against another for injuries sustained from a particularly vicious tackle.
What is implied consent?
500
This is a type of person who can never ratify a contract.
What is a mentally incompetent person?
500
This defense to discrimination does not deny the discriminatory practice, but rather shows that a particular trait is essential to the job (race, color and national origin can never qualify for this defense).
What is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ)?
500
To estimate whether a monopoly exists, a court might consider this factor, a figure determined by considering: 1) number of similar, competitive products available; 2) the size of the region where the products are sold; and 3) how much one firm's products are sold in relation to #1 & #2.
What is "market share"?
500
this term describes the kinds of acts committed by an employee for which the company will not be held vicariously liable because they are "beyond the powers" expressly or implicitly given to them by the company.
What is ultra vires acts?