Columbia College Consideration Capacity and Legality Essay

— TOPIC 1: Use at least 2 references Including — Clarkson, K., & Miller, R. (2021). Business Law: Text and Cases (15th ed.). Cengage. ( Chapter13,14 &15)

You are the manager for Swift Shipping (SS), and one of your customers, Vicki Vegetable (VV), and you had a horrible contract experience. VV demanded immediate shipment of a package and your driver, Tammy Teenager (TT) got pulled over for speeding before she could deliver the shipment. The shipment was drugs, TT got arrested, and you didn’t get paid for the shipment. (Note: the manager and driver are not doing anything illegal in this scenario.)

You are still recovering from last week’s debacle. VV is on the phone, on hold. You are too distraught to take the call, and you instruct TT to take it for you . . .

“Hey, I’m sorry about how that shipment went down. Let me make it up to you. I feel bad about you getting pulled over. How about I pay half of what I was supposed to?”

TT agrees, VV says, “Great, meet my niece, Nellie Notsosmart (NN), in Chicago tomorrow. She’ll give you what’s coming to you.”

TT meets NN in Chicago. Instead of cash, NN gives TT a contract VV has with Charlie Contractor (CC). NN crosses out all the VV references and puts TT’s initials in instead. “There, now you’ll get your money from CC,” NN says. CC was building an office building for VV, and now is building it for you. Once done, the company will have a nice, new office building you can rent or sell.”

“Not so fast,” CC says. CC has run into a lot of permit and construction trouble and needs more money to keep working. “No money, no more work,” says CC.

TT tells you what she has done. Call the company’s lawyer, and tell her the issues you think you need her help to address.

*— TOPIC 2: Use at least 2 references Including — Clarkson, K., & Miller, R. (2021). Business Law: Text and Cases (15th ed.). Cengage. ( Chapter13,14 &15)

You are a new sales manager for Cool Computers (CC). You are negotiating a deal with Weary Wholesaler (WW) to buy personal computers to sell at CC’s store.

You chat a while, and WW points to a group of computers and begins to negotiate a price. WW refers to them as “those computers I don’t want because they don’t support the new gaming systems the kids like to play.” You agree on a price and a date of delivery.

A few days after payment and delivery, one of your IT support crew calls you and says, “Lucky days! Remember those computers you just bought? Well, they’re all up to date! They work with the newest gaming systems, and we can make a ton of money!” You are out at happy hour, celebrating all the profits you anticipate. WW overhears you at the bar bragging about the deal. The next day, WW has sued you to recover the computers.

Your boss at CC calls you in to explain. From what you have learned in the course this week, tell her what might help and hurt your chances of winning the lawsuit. Also, discuss any ethical issues you think you should bring to your boss’s attention.