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Prompt for Questions 1-4. Bones is a veterinarian who occasionally uses United Express Corp. to deliver medicine to her customers.  During one such delivery the United Express truck, driven by Bevis, a full-time United Express employee, negligently struck and injured a pedestrian.  Assume United Express has an adequate safety record.

Moon and Star may recover damages from Clover. 

Personality, reasoning and judgment are associated with which lobe of the cerebral cortex?

Admitting Mr. Ed, a recently certified accountant, into the partnership. 

Can rely on courts to readily apply “gap-filler” doctrines of contract law such as the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, or evidence of course of dealing or trade usage. 

Bones, United Express and Bevis are all liable to the pedestrian. United Express must indemnify Bones and Bevis. 

A “freeze out” can occur due to the default rules of corporate law. 

A principal has a duty to confront her agent if she believes that her agent intends to breach the agent’s fiduciary duties to the principal. 

In sweet peas there is a gene for flower color, with the allele for purple flowers (A) dominant over the allele for white flowers (a).  In an isolated population of sweet peas the frequency of the individuals with purple flowers is 0.99, or 99%. If the population is in genetic equilibrium (Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium) for the flower color gene, then the frequency of individuals in the population with genotype AA should be:

After WWI, Britain and France punished and humiliated Germany with fines and restrictions, leading to anger and desire for revenge among Germans.  After WWII, the United States did not make this same mistake, but instead spent millions of dollars rebuilding old enemies.  Though this spending was part of a Cold War containment strategy, it also had the effect of creating long-term peace instead of smoldering resentment.