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Floors N More, Inc.: Legal Case Study
1) Floors n' More, Inc., hires Gordon to renovate Floors n' Mores showroom. Gordon submits plans that Floors n' More approves. Gordon completes the major reconstruction, paints the interior, and buys the fixtures and furnishings. Floors n' More rejects some of these items because they do not match the plans, and subsequently refuses to allow Gordon to finish the work or to collect payment. Could Gordon sue successfully for payment for the entire contract?

I believe that Gordon would be able to successfully sue for payment of the contract, but not to the entirety of it. The reasoning for this is that Gordon's plans with Floors n' More Inc. were submitted to the company, and then approved afterwards. By doing so, this was made into an
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Common laws are created through judges' decisions in cases. They use the decisions of previous cases to help weigh their own decisions, unless there have been no prior cases that fit with the one in court, in which case the decision made for that case may well become the new common law. Statutory laws are issued by a government in order to contort to reasons of the people, the main reasons being citizen's needs, to resolve issues that have remained present in which a court may be referencing the government and characterizing or formalizing preexisting laws in the justice system. However, the two are related in a sense that they are both commonly used in judicial systems to draw verdicts for …show more content…
As well as doing this, Fazio must show that Dixie breached a duty of care, on behalf of his company, Express Delivery. It must be connected and made clear that through Dixie's negligence, this exact chain of events occurred and led to what became a crane falling onto Fazio and injuring him. In other words, what I wrote means that it needs to show a foreseeable result of Dixie's careless behavior, that led to the injury, and not anything else. "This is the proximate, or legal cause, which exists when the connection between an act and an injury is strong enough to justify imposing liability(direct quote from

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