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Please review case study for Blue Moon Clothing Inc (attached). Create an outline and power point.
Step 3: Gather and Analyze Information
As you read through the materials, try to begin answering the questions Vice President Dodger asked you. You will likely encounter many new legal concepts, so take notes about which sections apply to this case so that you can easily refer back to them when you begin to write your presentation. The VP’s precise questions about the legal issues are as follows:
In the next step, you will formalize your thoughts so that they are ready to put into your presentation.
Step 4: Focus on Your Rationale and Conclusions: Create Your Outline
You’ve finished your research. You’ve reflected on how the facts and the law come together in this situation. You’ve analyzed the possible arguments and determined which seem most reasonable. Now it is time to formulate these arguments, addressing all the issues raised by the narrative in the
Blue Mood Clothing, Inc. case file
Vice President Dodger gave you.
Outline your presentation to the leadership team, either on paper or in a Word document; don’t make the PowerPoint yet. Review your outline to make certain it covers all relevant points and progresses in a logical order. Identify the major bullet points that you will highlight on your slides, and allocate the appropriate supporting information to each bullet point—make sure that you have adequately covered all the relevant arguments or reasons needed to support them. In the next step, you’ll use your outline to create the PowerPoint presentation for the VP. 7/22/22, 12:32 PM
Blue Mood Clothing, Inc
Course Resource
Blue Mood Clothing, Inc
Notice: Contains Confidential Information
Blue Mood Clothing, Inc., a company devoted to producing positive, mood-altering apparel
and various other clothing items, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Colossal Corporation.
Blue Mood Clothing’s most famous and best-selling product is the Breezer—a skin-tight
shirt with an air ventilation system that allows the breeze to pass through the shirt.
Colossal Corporation has uncovered an incident of theft at Blue Mood Clothing:
approximately one month ago, over five thousand Breezers were stolen from Blue Mood
Clothing’s Atlantic City, New Jersey, warehouse.
Shortly after the theft was discovered, Colossal Corporation’s internal investigator, Bill,
found an online advertisement for the sale of exactly five thousand Breezers, described as
shirts with an “air ventilation system that allows a cooling breeze to pass through the
shirt.” Bill called the contact on the website and set up a meeting with the seller, Nick
Johnson. When Bill, under the guise of being an interested purchaser of the Breezers,
inquired about Nick’s distributor, Nick did not hesitate to reveal that he purchased the
Breezers from Juanita Winfrey, his long-time business associate. Bill inspected the five
thousand Breezers, and confirmed they were indeed the same Breezer products that were
stolen from the warehouse. He then requested a price quote from Nick and asked Nick to
hold the products for him for seven days. Nick agreed.
That same afternoon, before additional investigation, Bill sent an email intended solely to
be sent to the vice president of Blue Mood Clothing, Inc., but he accidentally hit “reply all”
to a previous message, and sent the email to every employee at Blue Mood Clothing, Inc.,
over two hundred people. The email stated, among other things, that “Nick Johnson was a
thief and had an extensive criminal record in New Jersey. He stole the five thousand
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Breezers. I will continue my investigation tomorrow.” This statement was not true. Nick’s
old friend from high school, who worked at Blue Mood Clothing, Inc., forwarded this
message to Nick, who became worried about his business and reputation.
Bill arranged a meeting with Juanita the very next day, during which he posed as an
interested clothing buyer. He asked Juanita if she had any Breezer distributors she could
recommend. Juanita said that she works directly with a Blue Mood Clothing sales agent
named Alex Ridgefield, and that she recently purchased five thousand Breezers from him
at a fair price. Juanita also said that Alex is quite interested in expanding his business with
her, and would provide Bill with a great deal.
After his meeting with Juanita, Bill checked the personnel records at Blue Mood Clothing
and identified Alex Ridgefield as a low-level warehouse employee who has been with the
company for over 20 years. Alex’s personnel record is spotless, with no prior personnel
issues and no complaints. Alex is an at-will employee who is in charge of night security at
the Atlantic City warehouse and has no history in sales. As a night security guard, Alex is
responsible for protecting the warehouse from theft and is not permitted to sell products.
After further investigation, Bill found company emails between Juanita and Alex in which
Alex posed as a sales agent. Reading the emails, it became obvious that neither Juanita nor
Nick knew that the five thousand Breezers were stolen, and that both bought the Breezers
for fair-market value. Bill then collected video from all of Alex’s shifts and was able to
locate a film of Alex packing the Breezers into his personal minivan and driving them out
of the warehouse parking lot.
Your task is to research the legal issues surrounding the stolen property. It is up to you to
decipher which laws have been broken and deduce any potential remedies. Vice President
Dodger wants you to prepare a narrated PowerPoint to present this information to the
senior leadership team. Because of the sensitive nature of this case, the vice president has
asked you to operate with total confidentiality and without involving the legal department.
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