Andrea attends a public high school. Today’s lunch is a roasted pepper and tabouli on pita sandwich, which Andrea detests. During the lunch hour, instead of saying something about the sandwich, eating it, or trying to find something else to eat, Andrea yells “Food Fight” and tosses her sandwich to the floor. No fighting actually occurs, but students throw a huge amount of food onto the floor, leaving the cafeteria covered in peppers, tabouli, and pita bread. The school principal is furious and orders Andrea to clean up the mess. Andrea refuses and claims she was exercising her right of free speech. True or False:  Andrea’s actions are protected under free speech.

What parameter is the hemodynamic measurement that is indicative of a patient with right heart failure?

In exchange for $400,000, Ella offers to recreate a scene from the musical, “Annie,” in business tycoon Aiden’s backyard for Aiden’s New Year’s Eve party. Aiden is a huge Annie fan, and Ella threw a “super-dooper sweetener” into the offer, which stated that Ella would get at least ten of the cast members from the movie “Annie” to make an appearance and sing at least three Annie tunes of the party guests’ choosing.  Aiden is thrilled; so, that very day, in late October – 65 days before the party – Aiden accepts Ella’s offer. The day of the party, on New Year’s Eve, Ella calls Aiden and informs him that no one from the “Annie” cast will be making an appearance, but that the rest of the party would come off “without a hitch.” Aiden is very upset. He not only wants his down payment to Ella of $100,000 to be returned to him, but also wants Ella to reimburse Aiden’s incidental costs to date related to putting on the party (some prepaid costs not covered in the Ella-Aiden contract that concern catering and crowd control). Aiden claims that he has serious legal grounds to sue Ella. Does he?

An at-will employee at Bilbo’s Bistro, a restaurant, posted on his personal Twitter page: “I do not know what’s worse, my horrible boss or the horrible wings that we serve at #BilbosBistro.” The employee posted this late at night while at his home. After viewing the tweet, someone decided to share it with the employee’s boss. The boss then fired the employee because of the employee’s tweet. Can the employee successfully sue for damages based on the claim that he had a First Amendment right to share his negative opinions about his boss and his place of employment? 

Jaxon is a call center shift leader at an insurance company. This company employs all its employees on an at-will basis. He manages a team of five employees consisting of both males and females. Unfortunately for his team, Jaxon has significant anger issues and often berates all of the employees on his team, calls them “idiots,” “extremely dumb,” and “morons,” and Jaxon throws chairs, computer monitors and reams of paper at the employees whenever they do not meet or exceed his unrealistic and physically impossible productivity goals. This pattern of behavior has been going on for almost nine months and occurs at least twice a week. The employees on his team respectfully asked him to stop but he either threatens to fire them or ignores them and laughs at them. Jordie, a female employee of this team believes that she may have Title VII claim. Which of the following statements best describes this scenario?

Julian is a demolition expert who loves emptying stadiums. Not only is he a specialist in setting the dynamite off, but he is also an expert at delivering it (like a true two-way master). He is so well-recognized in his profession this year that Julian is in consideration for the Golden Dynamite award (which is the profession’s most coveted trophy). In the course of his duties, he is often required to draw up potential contracts with customers who are in need of an effective demolition job. His most recent job involved an offer to contract to destroy a particularly nasty building known simply as “The Box.” In a sober and otherwise unimpaired state of mind, Julian contracted with another sober/unimpaired adult (capable of making the decision) to destroy The Box on a Friday night. Julian was furnished with contracting fees of $1.4M for the job and was mutually aware of the terms with the contracting party. Julian formally accepted the job before its inception and notified the contracting party via email. Unbeknown to Julian is that Louisiana state law (where The Box is located) forbids demolitions from being performed on Fridays, instead allowing only Saturdays and Sundays. If Julian were to carry out the contract based on the originally agreed upon terms, the contract would most likely be characterized as which of the following?

Sheckee’s Shack (“Sheckee’s”) is a popular restaurant chain with thousands of employees throughout the United States. Sheckee’s hires only women to fill its bartender positions. A man who did not get hired for a bartender position at Sheckee’s is now claiming that he was discriminated against based on sex; the man sues Sheckee’s. Sheckee’s attorney argues the Bona Fide Occupational Defense. Is this defense likely to work?

Wyatt, Isabella, and Hudson are neighbors. They each have young children, and the three of them – Wyatt, Isabella, and Hudson – decide to build a waterslide for their children to enjoy. They also agree to split the cost of fixing the waterslide if anything happens to it. Eventually, the slide breaks, and it will cost $210 to repair it. Isabella proposes that they instead buy a new slide for $450. Wyatt agrees and they purchase it without speaking to Hudson. For how much of the cost is Hudson responsible?

Professor Hatts is looking to form a team of crime fighting superheroes and superheroines. He looks around his local campus for students with extraordinary superpowers. Scarlett, a student who seems quite impressive, asks to join the team. Professor Hatts says “yes” and lets Scarlett know that she will have to pay rent for the nice apartment, which Professor Hatts will lease to her at a very low rate of $30 per month (far below the market rate); and all of the rent is to be paid at the end of the lease. Scarlett agrees. After a few months, Professor Hatts learns that Scarlett had recently turned 17. For insurance reasons, Professor Hatts removes Scarlett from the team and demands that she pay back the $25 for the cost of the uniform (which she can keep) and $90 for the housing she received. Upset, Professor Hatts also demands $100 in punitive damages because Scarlett had not volunteered the information that she, a college junior, was, when she entered her agreement with Professor Hatts, only 16 years old. How much will Professor Hatts recover from Scarlett?

Adrian is about to graduate from UF and has just signed her first contract for employment with a private company, X Corp. Adrian realizes that there is a clause in her contract, drafted by X CORP, that prohibits her from speaking about the trade secrets that X CORP uses. Adrian believes that this clause violates rights under the First Amendment. Therefore, Adrian tells some of her friends at school about the company and the wording of the contract; however, she does not say anything else about X CORP, its customers, or what it does. Adrian does not know that her friend Ryan’s father is the head of X CORP. Ryan tells her father about what Adrian has said, and he immediately fires Adrian. Would Adrian have a case against X CORP under the rights granted in the First Amendment?