whether the contract is unconscionable‚ which includes the following: bargaining power of both parties‚ whether the consumer understood the terms in the contract‚ and whether undue influence or pressure was applied. In Commercial Bank of Australia v Amadio
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Legal Analysis Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company Facts In 1972 a Ford Pinto‚ purchased six months prior‚ unexpectedly stalled on the freeway in California. The Pinto was hit from behind by a Ford Galaxy‚ erupting into flames instantly. The driver of the car‚ Lilly Gray‚ suffered from fatal burns and died a few days later in the hospital. The passenger‚ a 13-year old boy named Richard Grimshaw‚ was also severely injured from burns‚ which caused his face and body to be permanently disfigured. After
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University Legal accusations of race‚ gender and age bias was bases for the 2001 class action lawsuit of Streeter et al. vs. Ford Motor Co and Siegel et al. vs. Ford Motor Co. for possible age bias. The legal accusations of gender and race claims were dismissed in the Streeter lawsuit but age was still a legal accusation. Ford Motor Co. denied any legal accusations of wrong actions in either lawsuit (The Union Times‚ 2001). “The reverse-discrimination lawsuits claimed that Ford ’s
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Table of Cases Anisminic Ltd V Foreign Compensation Commission (1969) 2 AC 147‚ (1969) 2 WLR 163....................................................................................................1 Craig v The State of South Australia (1995) 184 CLR 163 at 179.....................11 Ridge v Baldwin (1961) 2 All E.R. 523: (1961) 2 WLR 1054………………….6 R. V. Northumberland Compensation Appeal Tribunal‚ ex P. Shaw (1951) 1 K.B. 711: (1952) 1 K.B. 338…………………………………………………...13 Saluwa v Kabir (2011) 1 NWLR (pt
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Progeria is known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS). Progeria is a mutation that occurs within your genes. This disorder is extremely rare but fatal. In the gene Lamin A is the mutated protein gene. LMNA is responsible for giving instructions to make the protein Lamin A within the cell. This protein‚ Lamin A‚ is necessary for holding the center of a cell together‚ known as the nucleus (Progeria Research Foundation). The failure of LMNA results in making all the cells destabilized. The
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In Stevenson‚ Jacque & Co. v. McLean ‚ held that the initial communication was only asking for information‚ and it was not a counter-offer. There was no effort here to institute new clauses into the contract. As per above case‚ Palm Tree did not attempt to introduce new terms into the contract and it was a mere request for information not a counter-offer. Belton responded as an acknowledge receipt and packed twenty Fryers into its delivery truck for Palm Tree. Belton’s action was supported that
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In this recent Ninth Circuit case the issues centered on compatibility between video games. Accolade copied a Sega video game to obtain compatibility with the Sega Genesis game system. Accolade decompiled the machine readable object code from a Sega game in order to achieve compatibility with the Sega system for games that it wished to independently create and market. Accolade then created a manual containing only the functional specifications of this decompiled code and not any of Sega’s actual
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Chapter 8: Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company Caption: Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company Citation: California Court of Appeals‚ Fourth District‚ 1981 174 Cal. Rptr. 348 Facts: 1. Ford developed a new model‚ later to be known as the pinto‚ changing the design drastically. 2. Ford discovered that the fuel tanks position was in a ’vulnerable place’ and the car failed to met crash safety standards. 3. Ford was aware of the small cost to help the fuel tanks meet standards but refused to
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Problem: Mr. Nakamura must decide on what action plans to pursue for the rest of the year (i.e.‚ the "Value Creation 21" and the 5 emergency measures) Learning from Morishita ’s experiences‚ Mr. Nakamura should consider the following Critical Factors: 1. Full cooperation of senior management in the implementation of the plan. Mr. Nakamura ’s plan will fail if he never got the full cooperation of the whole management team of MEI. To get the cooperation‚ he must be able to get management to fully
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Rico v. Mitsubishi Motors Corp.‚ 42 Cal. 4th 807 (2007) Judicial History: Various plaintiffs sued Mitsubishi Motors Corporation after a sport utility vehicle rolled over while driven on a freeway. The trial court entered an order granting the defense a motion to disqualify plaintiff’s legal team and experts. The California Court of Appeal affirmed its decision and plaintiffs sought review. Facts: Plaintiffs’ attorney obtained notes from one of the defense attorneys and used them during
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