First, Zapatha (plaintiff) was a former and manager for Dairy Mart (defendant). Zapatha worked there for almost 20 years, then he was fired, in May 1973. Zapatha wanted to own a business. He spoke to Dairy Mart about a franchise. On November 8, 1973, Dairy Mart accepted Zapatha's franchise idea and gave him a franchise agreement. There was a clause in the agreement that either party could terminated after 12 months, if they give 90 days written notice. The agreement stipulated that if Dairy Mart terminated without cause, they would have to purchase Zapatha’s remaining inventory at 80% market value. Dairy Mart told Zapatha to read the agreement and have it looked over by an attorney. Zapatha did not seek counsel, and signed the franchise agreement …show more content…
The trial court held for Zapatha. Dairy mart appealed. In Zapatha v Dairy Mart, 381 Mass. 284; N.E. 2d. 1370 there are two issues at hand. 1) Does the unconscionability of an agreement depend on whether at the time of execution the contract provision at issue could result in unfair surprise and was oppressive to the allegedly disadvantaged party; and 2) Whether a merchant seeking to terminate a business agreement must act in good faith by practicing honesty in fact and observing reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing in that trade. The finding was the action by Dairy Mart was not unconscionable nor did Dairy Mary act improper or in bad faith. It would only be unconscionable if it resulted in being an unfair surprise or was oppressive at the time of the agreement. In addition, a merchant must act in good faith when terminating a business agreement. Basically, was the person honest? If the party terminating acted without cause, courts could stop the termination if it was done in bad faith. The termination clause that Dairy Mart and Zapatha agreed to had no possability for unfair surprise to
In response, the Board moved to dismiss the action grounded on claiming antitrust immunity. The Board argued that, as a state agency, it was exempt from antitrust laws. However, the FTC responded pointing out that antitrust immunity does not apply in this case because of the structure of the Board’s members. As the Board could not bring proof of active supervisor from the state, the court supported FTC’s claim. Relevant Laws US Antitrust Laws
While the plaintiff 's claims that Tyson did not compensate the overtime they worked. However, Tyson asserted that even if there is sufficient evidence to support the damages; plaintiff has failed because plaintiffs did not provide any evidence of the actual damage due to the testimony did not contain references of overtime that had violated the Fair Standards Labor Act (FLSA). Under the provisions of Tyson, workers at the plant worked Storm Lake had worked substantial amount of overtime on a weekly basis and the plaintiffs show uncompensated overtime work by applying the average donning, doffing, and walking times to the employee time-sheets, therefore; evidence is sensitive to the reasonable inference that the jury verdict is
Morris sexually assaulted Michelle multiple times and said inappropriate racial comments on a daily basis. Secondly, Morris promised her a raise after three months of employment, however, she never received the raise. Michelle also never got paid overtime. Under the Ontario Employment Standards Act, it is required
Thank you for providing a great example of an institution’s response to the breach of a coach’s contract. After researching the case of Kent State v. Ford, it was apparent that the terms of Ford’s agreement were not interpreted by the coach in the same manner in which the terms were written by the institution. Ford is quoted as stating that the liquidated damages clause was not enforceable (Farkas, 2015). Whereas liquated damages are defined as such: The purpose of a liquidated damages clause is to ensure that the failure of one party to follow the contract does not unfairly hurt the other and the amount agreed to must be a reasonable estimate of any potential damage a breach of contract might cause (faircontracts.org, n.d.).
8. Principle of Law: The court states, the first of the City’s contentions is easily dismissed. The jury found that Bozeman had notice of the harassment, and it is well established that we must accept a jury’s factual finding if it is supported by substantial evidence. The City’s second claim—that as a matter of law Bozeman’s knowledge should not have been imputed to the City—poses a more significant question concerning the limits of potential liability under Title VII. This court has noted that “the type and extent of notice necessary to impose liability on an employer under Title VII are the subject of some uncertainty.”
1. What was the legal issue in this case? What did the NLRB decide? This case is based on 26 former employees of MasTec Advanced Technologies, Inc. (MasTec), who sued the company alleging that their employment were terminated after an appearance on a TV news show, complaining about unfair new pay formula and the instructions to lie to the customers in order to meet with the telephone lines installations rates. As is mentioned in the textbook in the MasTec Advanced Technologies' case, the new pay formula indicate that the technicians would be paid $2 less for basic and additional outlet installations, but would earn $3.35 for each receiver they connected to phone line.
Expectation damages would have left Walgreen’s indifferent between the damages and performance by Sara Creek. Walgreen’s expected to make a certain profit, but would lose profit from a competing store and pharmacy as the anchor tenant. The difficulty in this case, and expectation damages in general, is that the value of performance is sometimes hard to quantify. Calculating expectation damages involves projecting future revenues and costs of Walgreen’s without the presence of Phar-Mor and determining the impact of the addition of Phar-Mor. The court determined that there was too much uncertainty in this calculation to award damages, but for the sake of argument, let’s say that Sara Creek would have paid damages monthly.
The Supreme Court held that an agreement that is “so consistently unreasonable that the question of reasonableness is foreclosed”, would qualify as a per se violation of the Act. Examples of per se violations include group boycotts and concerted refusals to deal. A group boycott is "a refusal to deal or an inducement of others not to deal or to have business relations with tradesmen. " A concerted refusal to deal is "an agreement by two or more persons not to do business with other individuals, or to do business with them only on specified terms."
FACTS In December of 1990, Gerry DiNardo was hired as the head football coach by and for Vanderbilt University under a five-year contract. Under this contract, “liquidated damage provisions” were outlined for both parties, with section 8 of the employment contract specifically detailing the liquidated damages he should owe to the plaintiff/appellee should he terminate his five-year contract with Vanderbilt and be “employed or performing services for a person or institution other than the University” within the five-year term of the aforementioned contract. In August of 1994, the Athletic Director for the University, Paul Hoolahan, offered the defendant/appellant a two-year extension of the contract. An addendum was drawn up by Vanderbilt’s Deputy General Counsel that would extend
Novelist, Eric Schlosser, in his novel, “Fast Food Nation”, expresses how fast food has spread. Schlosser’s purpose is to make us see how addicted we are to fast food. He adopts a shocking tone through the use of diction, Logos, and diction in order to get people to make better choices. For starters, one of the strategies that Schlosser used in this text is diction. Diction can be defined as style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker /writer.
Deals Co. v. Mainland Motors Corp., 40 Mich. Application. 270, 198 N.W.2d 757 (1972) (defendant corporation which allegedly did not honor agreement had burden of raising statute of frauds
In Peter Satori Co. the Board found that there was intent to avoid the reaching of an agreement because the employer "coupled a determination to yield nothing of substance to the Union with an attitude of offering its proposals on a take it-or-leave-it basis." In both cases the Board's reasoning was consistent in that it centred on whether the employer's firmness was intended to frustrate agreement. However, what constituted bad faith in the Satori case seems to be the very attitude which was condoned in the American Sanitary Wipers case and one is still unsure of the status given an adamant employer. Thus, while the Board seems to have no problem in reconciling the conflict in the Act in the reasoning it uses, it most certainly has encountered
This changed when they decided to announce to the public that the agent's services were holding a cable on behalf of the business. Because the client relies on this particular assumption, they are also based on the existence of an agency relationship. This would make the principal, the store, entitled to recover damages from the customer caused by the agent.
In Case C-46/93 Brasserie du Pecheur SA v Germany the Court extended its ruling by applying this conditions not only for breaches relating to the
Australian dairy industry is the third largest agricultural industry, with 7.6% share behind wheat and beef (Figure 6). In 2015/16, 9.54 billion litres of milk produced in Australia from 6,000 farms, gaining a gross value of $4.3 billion (3). Figure 7 illustrated the percentage of raw milk used to produce different dairy products. Two key factors influence profitability of dairy farms in Australia: 1) Milk price – affected largely by international dairy commodity price trends since the deregulation of milk price in 2000/01, and increase in global trade of dairy products. (3)