The purposes of these assignments are to (1) increase your ability to research current events in fraud, (2) to increase your understanding of a particular area of fraud; and (3) to be able to critically evaluate articles regarding fraud.

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) was a compromise between the Clinton administration and its opponents in Congress and the military. Compromise sometimes yields good policy, but sometimes it produces internally inconsistent and counterproductive policy. Using DADT as an example, what do you see to be the potential strengths and weaknesses of policy borne of compromise? The 18-year process of repealing DADT suggests that policy termination can be a lengthy process. Should policies be inherently difficult to terminate, especially those rooted in public attitudes?

Learning Activity #1 (to be posted)

Please read the following fact pattern and address all three of the questions. Only discuss relevant issues!  I am not as interested in your outcome (who will end up winning) as I am in how you use the law to support your points. Base your answer only on facts given. If additional information is needed, tell me that. Your answers should be about 200 words.

McBain Truck Company had an established rule that its truck drivers were not allowed to carry passengers in the trucks. Further, this rule was included in the contract between the union and the company. Balsom, a driver for McBain, invited a friend to ride in his truck on a day’s delivery trip. As a result of Balsom’s carelessness during the trip, the truck was involved in a collision and his friend was seriously injured.

a. Is the employer responsible to third parties for injuries caused by an employee in the normal performance of employment? 
b. Would Balsom be held responsible for the injuries? 
c. Is an employer liable to third parties for all actions of an employee?

Learning Activity #2 (to be posted) 

Instructions: Please choose ONE of the three questions to answer. Do not give yourself extra work by answering all three questions. 

1) Helena, the purchasing agent for Cassadine Inc., contacts five different suppliers to obtain price quotes for office supplies she needs to order. The price for the identical office supplies ranges from a high of $855 to a low of $500, includ­ing shipping and handling charges. As purchasing agent, Helena has complete autonomy on selecting suppliers and on placing orders up to $5,000; before placing orders in excess of $5,000, she must get signed authorization from the company’s comptroller. 

A. If Helena purchases the supplies from the most expensive supplier because she is angry at her employer for turning down her recent request for a raise, what duty of an agent has she breached? What are Cassadine’s remedies? 

B. Helena purchases a $20,000 computer system from Alpha Inc., a dealer she has never ordered from, but who knows Helena is the purchasing agent for Cassadine. If Cassadine refuses to accept the system when it arrives, what argument will Alpha make for Cassadine’s liability? What will be Cassadine’s defense? 

2)Brandon is a traveling salesperson for Best Publishing Co. His job is to drive around to bookstores and persuade them to stock Best publications. One day, while on his way to his next appointment in College Park, Brandon accidentally rear-ends Emily. 

A. Has Brandon committed a tort? What will Emily have to prove to hold Best liable? 

B. Assume Brandon uses his own car, sets his own hours, decides without direction from Best what bookstores to visit, and is paid according to how many books he places in bookstores. What kind of agent is Brandon? How does this affect Best’s liability? 

C. Assume Brandon takes directions from Best on most aspects of his job. While stopping to get gas, Brandon gets into a fistfight with the station attendant, who makes a negative comment about Brandon’s favorite base­ball team. Brandon injures the attendant. If the attendant sues Best, what will Best argue to avoid liability?

3) A buyer, wishing to buy a Christmas gift for her husband, visits a computer store and asks the salesperson to recommend a laser printer. She tells the sales­person that the printer must print at a minimum of 12 pages per minute at a minimum resolution of 1200 dots per inch (dpi) and must have a duty cycle of at least 10,000 copies per month. The salesperson recommends a low-end printer on sale that week but fails to mention that it prints at a speed of only 8 pages per minute and is rated for not more than 5,000 copies per month. 

A. Has the salesperson breached any express warranty? 

B. Has the salesperson breached any implied warranty? Explain. 

C. If the salesperson demonstrates a color printer that meets all of the sell­er’s requirement but then sells her a cheaper monochrome laser printer instead, has he breached any warranty?

Please use in-text citations and references.

Chapter 38-39

http://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Business%20Law%20and%20the%20Legal%20Environment.pdf

Research Paper Using Word 2010

This assignment has two goals:  1) have students increase their understanding of the concept of Protecting Personal Information (PPI) and other ethical issues related to the use of information technology through research, and 2) learn to correctly use the tools and techniques within Word to format a research paper including using Word 2010/2013’s citation tools.  These skills will be valuable throughout students’ academic career.  The paper will require a title page, NO abstract, three to four full pages of content with incorporation of a minimum of 3 external resources from credible sources, and a Works Cited/Reference page.  Three pages of content means 3 full pages, to the bottom of the third page.  Two pages plus five lines on the third page will not suffice.  Note that submitting a paper that is less than three pages may affect your grade on several rubric items, including page length and several content items.

A list of topics from which students can choose is provided below.  Wikipedia and similar pages are NOT creditable sources.  Blogs and discussion groups are not creditable sources.  The course textbook cannot be used as a source for the research paper.  No more than 10% of the paper may be in the form of a direct citation from an external source.

Topics for Research Paper

1. Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
2. Social Engineering
3. Employee Monitoring
4. Information Privacy
5. Electronic Medical Records
6. Biometrics (in terms of ethical and privacy issues)
7. Identity Theft
8. Use of Cookies
9. Privacy Laws related to Information Technology use
10. Intellectual Property Rights; Copyright

Writing Quality for the Research Paper

* Grammar, Verb Tenses, Pronoun Use, Spelling, Punctuation, and Writing Competency.

*Remember: spell-check, then proofread. Better yet, have a friend or colleague read it before submitting it. Read it out loud to yourself.

* Remember: there is not their, your is not you’re, its is not it’s, too is not to or two, site is not cite, and who should be used after an individual, not that. For example, “the person WHO made the speech” not “the person THAT made the speech.”

* In a professional paper one does not use contractions (doesn’t, don’t, etc.) and one does not use the personal you or your. Use the impersonal as in the previous sentence. It is more business-like than saying, “Also in a professional paper you don’t use contractions.”

* Use the impersonal as in the sentence immediately above. It is more business-like than saying, “Also in a professional paper you don’t use contractions.”

This is not a speech, it is a research paper.  First and second person should NOT be used.

Requirement	Points Allocated	Comments
Paper should be double-spaced, 1” margins, 12 point Times Roman type	0.5	This is the font in normal paragraphs.  Heading and title fonts may be in bold, but should remain in 12 point font.
Deliverable is at least three full pages and does not exceed four typed, double-spaced pages	0.5	Charts and other graphical information are not included in the page count.  Title and reference pages are not included in page count.
Title Page which shows title and author’s (student’s) name.	0.5	Title must be appropriate for content
At least three (3) APA formatted in-text citations. You are required to use the References feature in Word 2010/2013 for your citations and Reference List.  It is important to review the final format for APA-style correctness even if generated by Word.	2	These can be anywhere in the document, but the citations must be relevant to what is being referenced and use the APA format.
At least two (2) informational footnotes. (Note:  APA Style does not use footnotes for citations; however, does allow for the incorporation of informational footnotes)	1.5	These can be anywhere in the document, but the informational footnotes must be relevant to the associated text.  The purpose of this requirement is to effectively incorporate the information and demonstrate that you can use the MS Word footnoting functionality.
Reference Page using APA format for references You are required to use the References feature in Word 2010/2013 for your citations and Reference List.  It is important to review the final format for APA-style correctness even if generated by Word.	2	All works listed must be incorporated within the writing of your paper as specified in APA style
Describe the topic and ethical issue as it relates to the use of Information Technology	2
Discuss the trends, ways individuals and/or organizations are impacted by the issue or working to prevent the impact.	2
Paper must be well-organized, clearly written in a style appropriate for college level work.	1
Paper should be grammatically correct and contain no spelling errors.	2	Although you should use the SpellCheck and Grammar Check function in Word, this will not catch all errors – you are ultimately responsible for proofreading.  Direct citations should not exceed 10% of total words (use Word’s ‘word count’ function)
TOTAL:	14

Could you answer this question by the 5th of December?