The document outlines various legal scenarios involving contracts, agency, influences, and misrepresentation, featuring fictional characters like John, Rob, and Ana, who engage in transactions with different legal implications. It poses specific legal questions and potential outcomes regarding minors' capacity to contract, undue influence, and the materiality of contract terms. Additionally, it includes guidelines for writing a term paper on a Nobel Prize winner, with formatting and content structure requirements.

1. 1. John, a 15 year old who loves skateboarding, wants to buy
the new hyped magenta 3000 skateboard. He finds the last one
on-line at his local sports store. He uses his debit card to
purchase the board and the $500 is taken directly from his bank
account. In order to avoid a delivery fee, he selects “pick up”
as his shipping option.
When he arrives at the store to pick up the skateboard, the
manager tells him he has canceled the transaction because
another customer has promised to pay $600 for the board. John
offers to pay an additional $150 for the skateboard and the
manager agrees. John pays the $150 by credit card and takes the
board. As soon as John gets home, he calls the credit card
company and cancels the transaction.
The store sues John for the $150 or the return of the skateboard.
What result?
A. The store will win. John has to return the skateboard
because he is a minor without the capacity to contract.
B. John will win. There was no consideration given in
exchange for John’s payment of the $150.
C. The store will win under the doctrine of promissory estoppel.
D. The store will win because the store’s website did not create
a valid offer.
B. John will win. There was no consideration given in
exchange for John’s payment of the $150.
2. Rob, an elderly man, is dependent on his housekeeper, Larry,
to care for him. Larry persuades Rob to withdraw $100,000
from the bank and make an interest free loan to him. Rob’s
daughter, Erica, sues Larry on behalf of her father to avoid the

2. transaction. Erica’s best claim is:
A. Unilateral mistake.
B. Undue Influence
C. Economic duress
D. Misrepresentation
B. Undue influence
3. Elise took out an ad in the newspaper to sell her car, fully
described, for $17,000. Franklin saw the ad and called Elise,
saying that he would like to see the car. Franklin met Elise,
drove the car and said, “Okay, I’ll buy it.” Which of the
following is true?
A. Elise made an offer, which Franklin accepted.
B. Franklin made an offer, which Elise may accept or reject.
C. Elise made an offer which Franklin may accept or reject.
D. Franklin made an offer, which Elise accepted.
B. Franklin made an offer, which Elise may accept or reject.
4. Colleen sold a house to Ben for $300,000. Before selling the
house, Colleen forgot to tell Ben about a leaky faucet in a little-
used sink in the basement, which would cost about $30 to fix.
Ben inspected the house, but didn’t notice the faucet. Later,
Ben tries to rescind the deal on the grounds of fraud or
misrepresentation because of the leaky faucet. Which of the
following is the best reason why Ben cannot rescind?
A. Because Colleen made no statement about the faucet.
B. Because Ben did not rely on any false statement
C. Because the condition of the faucet is not material to the
contract.
D. Because Colleen did not conceal the condition of the faucet.
C. Because the condition of the faucet is not material to the
contract

3. 5. Ana, a 19-year-old immigrant entered into an agreement with
Hal’s TV to buy a new projection TV for $2,700. Ana cannot
read English, although she was given a copy of all the sales and
financing documents. Hal’s knew that Ana could not read
English and did not tell her how much interest she would be
charged. Ana signed a loan agreement to pay 17% interest,
although the average consumer loan rate at the time was 12%.
If Ana wants to rescind the agreement, her best argument is:
A. That she lacked capacity
B. That Hal’s used undue influence
C. That Hal’s defrauded her
D. That the agreement is unconscionable.
D. That the agreement is unconscionable.
6. Which of the following must be in writing to comply with the
statute of frauds?
A. A contract to perform legal services for $1,5000
B. A contract for the lease of an automobile
C. A contract to perform a three-year IT project
D. A promise to pay a $5,000 debt.
C. A contract to perform a three-year IT project
7. Kathy lived in Jess’s house, taking care of the ailing old man.
After Jess’s death, Kathy claimed that Jess had promised her
that he would leave her his house as payment for her caretaking
services if she would stay with him until the end of his life.
Jess died without a will. Kathy’s best argument is:
A. Kathy and Jess had an oral agreement for the sale of land
that was fully performed on her side.

4. B. Kathy and Jess had an oral agreement for the sale of land
that was fully performed on both sides.
C. Kathy and Jess had an implied written agreement for the sale
of the land.
D. Kathy and Jess had an executed agreement for the sale of the
land.
A. Kathy and Jess had an oral agreement for the sale of land
that was fully performed on her side.
8. Karen and Marilyn have a valid contract under which Karen
sold Marilyn a diamond necklace in return for twelve equal
monthly payments of $100. After Marilyn made the fifth
payment, Karen called her and told her to send the remaining
payments to Pedro. This is:
A. A valid assignment of Karen’s rights under the contract.
B. A valid delegation of Karen’s duties under the contract.
C. A valid modification of the contract.
D. A valid novation.
A. A valid assignment of Karen’s rights under the contract.
9. Which of the following is most likely to be subject to a
“substantial performance” standard?
A. A promise to pay money
B. A promise to deliver a deed
C. A promise to transfer ownership of a truck
D. A promise to deliver 2000 tons of steel.
D. A promise to deliver 2000 tons of steel.
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5. Final Term Paper
Name: ______________________________
ID#: ______________________________
(Add your title here)
Short Biography
(Add your paragraphs here)
Major Scientific Achievements and Impacts
(Add your paragraphs here. Should include one or more separate
paragraph(s) focusing on the Nobel Prize winning research
(behavior) and its scientific (biological) background)
My Reflection
(Add your paragraphs here)
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Complete Time (DD MM YYYY): _______________________
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6. Term Paper Guidelines
A final term paper, a review paper of your scientist (the Nobel
Prize laureate of the panel
that you co-organize), will serve as the final exam of this
course. The paper will constitute
30%, i.e., 30 points (pts), of your final grade (refer to the end of
the guidelines for detailed
point division/distribution).
You should first collect data from any trustable sources you can
find, for example,
officially published books, peer-reviewed journal articles, and
trustable internet resources,
and in particular, the "main references" of our course (refer to
the syllabus.)
Once you have collected enough data, you should complete your
own analysis and
interpretation of the data, and follow this writing guideline to
independently finish your
paper (that is, each student will write his/her own paper).
The term paper can be submitted through BlackBoard as an
assignment (checked by
SafeAssign) at any time before the deadline - the end of official
Final Exam time for our
course (Refer to the syllabus). No submission after the deadline
will be accepted at any
occasion.
General Rules:

7. [Note: The current “Term Paper Guidelines” as well as the
“Term Paper Writing Template”
and the "Term Paper Writing Template-References" are all
composed following these General
Rules. Please download the “Term Paper Writing Template” and
the "Term Paper Writing
Template-References" and write your paper directly on these
templates without changing any
format.]
You will submit your term paper in two files:
1. The term paper text (Should be named as "[Your scientist’s
name] by [you name]-text",
such as "Marie Curie by Qin Leng-text"). Figures and tables (if
necessary) as well as their
captions/legends should be included in this file. SafeAssign will
be used to check the similarity of
this file of your term paper with the Institutional and Global
References Database.
2. The term paper references (the “reference list”) (Should be
named as "[Your scientist’s
name] by [you name]-refs", such as "Marie Curie by Qin Leng-
refs"). To separate your reference
list from the text is to avoid increasing the SafeAssign
"similarity" of your term paper.
American English should be used to write the term paper while
non-English words or phrases
(e.g., vise versa) can be embedded in necessary places. The
writing should be free of grammatical
or spelling errors.
Metric units (SI-International System of Units) must be used
throughout the paper. Convert

8. English units to metric or use both.
Font must be in 12-point, Times New Roman.
Single spaced all through the paper, including title, all chapters,
and figure and table captions
(if necessary).
Necessary figure(s) and table(s) can be included and all of them
must be referred to in the text,
in the order of appearance. For example:
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“Groves of native dawn redwood trees were shown in Figure 1.”
“Table 1 shows the data of samplings of native dawn redwood
trees.”
Under each figure and table there should be a caption/legend.
Figure and table numbers are
formatted in CAPITAL letters, BOLD, followed by an em dash
(–). Unless the figure was created
by yourself, the source of the figure/table should be cited
clearly at the end of the caption/legend.
Examples:

9. FIGURE 1 – Reconstructed Arctic ecosystem during the early
Paleogene
global warming period (From Leng and Yang, 2009, cover
figure)
FIGURE 2 – Position of Metasequoia (indicated by an arrow) in
the phylogenetic tree of
the family Cupressaceae [From
“http://www.conifers.org/cu/Cupressaceae.php” (retrieved 01
September 2016), with the arrow added by the current author]
Reference and Citation Formatting:
Every reference from which you obtained data/information both
for the text and for
figure(s)/table(s) should be cited in both the text and the
reference list.
We use the “name-year” citation style of "Council of Science
Editors. Style Manual
Committee. 2014. Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual
for Authors, Editors, and
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10. Publishers. 8th edition. Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press. 722p." The style
can be found from:
http://www.scientificstyleandformat.org/Tools/SSF-Citation-
Quick-Guide.html]:
Click "SCIENTIFIC STYLE AND FORMAT CITATION QUICK
GUIDE" at the left
column and click "NAME-YEAR" under "Scientific Style and
Format Citation Quick Guide."
As SafeAssign will be used to check the similarity of your term
paper with the Institutional
and Global References Database, to avoid increasing the
"similarity" of the report of SafeAssign
on your term paper, the reference list (the “References”) of your
paper should be submitted in a
separate word file. Please use the "Term Paper Writing
Template-References" which can be
downloaded from BlackBoard to fill in your reference list.
Paper Organization:
Please organize your paper according to the following sequence:
Title—The full name of your Nobel Prize laureate followed by
his/her birth date and an em
dash in parenthesis if he/she is still alive [such as Example 1] or
by his/her birth date, an em dash,
and death date if he/she passed away [such as Example 2]. Add
his/her Nobel Prize and the year
in the following line. Both lines should be centered and bold.
Example 1:

11. Shinya Yamanaka (4 September 1962 –)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012
Example 2:
Marie Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 and the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry 1911
Short Biography
This session constitutes 5 pts. It should include at least: Date
and place of birth of the scientist,
date and place of death of the scientist (if passed away), family
of the scientist (particularly
family members who influenced the scientist remarkably),
education background (under graduate
to graduate should be at least included) of the scientist, major
career experience of the scientist,
and a list of outstanding awards/honors the scientist received.
Major Scientific Achievements and Impacts
This session constitutes 15 pts. You should summarize the
major scientific achievements of
the scientist and discuss the major impacts of his/her work,
particularly the impacts on biological
sciences. Don't provide a list of awards/honors the scientist
received (which should be included in
the "Short Biography" session.)
One or more separate paragraph(s) focusing on the Nobel Prize

12. winning research of the
scientist and its scientific (biological) background should be
written specifically.
My Reflection
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This session constitutes 3 pts, containing your personal
reflection after doing research and
co-organizing a panel on your scientist. Any other comments or
remarks can be also included in
this session.
(All these three headings — “Short Biography,” “Major
Scientific Achievements and
Impacts,” and “My Reflection” — should be centered, with
sentence caps, and in bold, as shown
above).
References
A complete list of all references you cite in the text should be
compiled, following the format

13. described in “Reference and Citation Formatting.” (Note: This
session should be written and
submitted in a separate word file.)
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Distribution of the 30 pts:
1 pt for the proper length of the paper (between 2,500-5,000
words, no less or more, with
the reference list excluded).
3 pts for the formats and general rules.
3 pts for references and citations.
23 pts for the text of the paper, which are further divided as:
i) 5 pts for “Short Biography” session.
ii) 15 pts for “Major Scientific Achievements and Impacts”
session.
[Note 2: Final pts of i + ii (in total 5 + 15 = 20 pts) will be
scaled down by the
following SafeAssign Similarity Percentage: 0-20% = × 100%;
21-30% = × 90%; 31-40% =
× 80%; 41-50% = × 70%; 51-60% = × 60%; 61-70% = × 50%;
71-80% = × 40%; 81-90%
= × 30%; 91-100% = × 20%]
iii) 3 pts for “My Reflection and Others” session.

14. Sample Essay Question
Sally is running from a crime scene. Harry is in his car waiting
at a stoplight. Sally approaches
Harry’s car, points a gun at him and orders him to get into the
passenger seat. Harry complies,
not knowing that the gun was not loaded. Sally drives away in
his car, speeding at 90 miles an
hour. At all times the doors of the car remain unlocked. Five
minutes later, Sally slows to 20
miles an hour and pushes Harry out of the car. Harry suffers
cuts and bruises, but is otherwise
okay. WHAT CLAIMS MAY HARRY HAVE AGAINST
SALLY? WHAT ARE SALLY’S POTENTIAL
DEFENSES? WHAT IS THE LIKELY OUTCOME?
Sample Essay Answer
Harry has claims against Sally for assault, false imprisonment,
conversion and battery.
Assault is an intentional attempt or threat to cause a harmful or
offensive contact with another
person, if the attempt causes a reasonable apprehension of
imminent battery in the other
person’s mind. By pointing her gun at Harry, Sally caused Harry
to believe that Sally would
shoot him if he didn’t comply with her orders. This belief was
reasonable because most people
would fear being shot under these circumstances. Sally may
argue that because the gun was
not loaded, Harry could not reasonably fear that he would be
shot, but this argument is not
likely to prevail because Harry did not know that the gun was
not loaded.

15. False imprisonment is the intentional confinement of another
for an appreciable time without
his consent. When Sally drove off with Harry in the car, she
intentionally confined him in the
automobile. Five minutes is a sufficient amount of time to
constitute false imprisonment. Sally
may argue that Harry consented to his confinement by moving
to the passenger seat and letting
Sally get into the car. However, Harry did so under duress. He
did not freely consent to being
confined in the car with Sally. Sally may also argue that since
the car doors were not locked,
Harry had a means of escape and his confinement was not
complete. However, since Sally was
driving the car at 90 miles per hour, it would present an
unreasonable risk of harm for Harry to
jump out.
Conversion is the intentional exercise of dominion or control
over the plaintiff’s personal
property without the plaintiff’s consent. When Sally took
Harry’s car, she committed
conversion. Sally may argue that Harry consented to her taking
his car, however, as discussed
above, Harry did so only under duress.
Battery is the intentional and harmful touching of another
without the person’s consent. When
Sally pushed Harry out of the car, she intentionally touched him
harmfully because it produced
bodily injury.
Harry will be likely to prevail in all of his claims against Sally.

16. 3
1.1.2.2. Courts of equity
1.1.3. Constitutional law
1.1.4. Statutory law
1.2. Legal Reasoning
1.2.1. Case law analysis, role of precedent
1.2.2. Statutory Interpretation: plain meaning, legislative
history, public policy
1.2.3. Distinction between civil and criminal law
1.2.4. Procedural (sufficient to understand cases studied)
1.2.4.1. Court structure
1.2.4.1.1. Jurisdiction
1.2.4.1.2. Trial courts distinguished from appellate courts
1.2.4.2. Stages of lawsuit: pleadings, discovery, trial, appeal
(NB: importance of
distinguishing questions of law from questions of fact)
1.2.4.3. Alternate dispute resolution
1.2.4.3.1. Dispute avoidance techniques
1.2.4.3.2. Arbitration
2. Remedies (5% of class time)
2.1. Damages
2.1.1. Compensatory: purpose, duty to mitigate
2.1.1.1. Actual
2.1.1.2. General
2.1.2. Punitive damages: purpose
2.1.3. Liquidated damages: purpose, enforceability

17. 2.1.4. Extraordinary (equitable) relief: specific performance
3. Torts (25% of class time)
3.1. Intentional: applicability of punitive damages
3.1.1. Related to the person
3.1.1.1. Assault
3.1.1.2. Battery
3.1.1.3. False imprisonment
3.1.1.4. Intentional infliction of emotional distress
3.1.2. Related to intangibles: reputation, privacy
3.1.2.1. Defamation
3.1.2.2. Invasion of privacy
3.1.3. Related to property rights
3.1.3.1. Trespass
3.1.3.2. Conversion
3.1.3.3. Nuisance
3.1.3.4. Fraud/misrepresentation (coordinated with later
discussion in contracts).
3.2. Negligence: prima facie case and defenses
3.3. Strict liability: Products liability
4. Contracts (60% of class time)
4.1. Agreement: offer, acceptance, including applicability of
UCC
4.2. Consideration