1. Data Analytics, Inc., and eProducts Corporation market competing software products. Data Analytics launches an advertising campaign claiming that eProducts, instead of testing software before it is marketed, has customers “test†the software by using it. eProducts knows this is not true but begins to lose sales to Data Analytics. On what grounds could eProducts sue Data Analytics for injury to eProducts’ reputation?
2. Dixie, a driver for Express Delivery Company, leaves the truck’s motor running in neutral and carelessly forgets to set the parking brake while she makes a delivery. The truck rolls and crashes into a nearby gas station pump, igniting a fire that spreads quickly to a construction site a block away. A burned wall colÂlapses onto a crane, which falls on Fazio, a byÂstander, and injures him. What must Fazio show to recover damÂages from Express Delivery?
3. Read this article concerning the crane accident in Seattle in April 2019 (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/victims-seatt…) . Based on what you have learned this week, what claims might the victims have and against whom? There could be multiple plaintiffs and multiple defendants and claims. What do you imagine might happen legally in regards to this incident? Please confine your response to the law you have learned in this week’s module.
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