...absolute rule based on title. Agency principles applied to corporate officers
Citations: Agency principles applied to corporate officers
Officers lawfully entered a house with a warrant to search for a stolen television. While walking through the living room, an officer saw a clear plastic bag of cocaine on a coffee table. The officer immediately recogniz...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Procedure, U.S. Const. amend. IV, Horton v. California
Officers ask a tenant for permission to search the apartment she shares with her cousin. She calmly says yes and lets them into the living room. The cousin is absent. The officers find evidence on a shared coffee table...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. IV, Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, United States v. Matlock, Illinois v. Rodriguez, Georgia v. Randolph
Officers investigating a burglary traced a stolen laptop to a house using the laptop's location software. They had probable cause but no warrant. When they arrived, they heard shouting inside and a crash that sounded lik...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. IV, Payton v. New York, Brigham City v. Stuart, Kentucky v. King, Maryland v. Buie, Horton v. California
Officers investigating stolen tablets went to a house shared by a suspect and his roommate. The roommate answered the door and said, "You can search the living room and my bedroom, but not his bedroom." The suspect stood...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. IV, Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, Illinois v. Rodriguez, Georgia v. Randolph, Fernandez v. California, South Dakota v. Opperman, New Jersey v. T.L.O.
Officers lawfully enter an apartment with a warrant to search for stolen televisions. While walking through the living room, an officer sees a clear bag of counterfeit passports on a coffee table and immediately recogniz...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. IV, Horton v. California
A newly incorporated business has shareholders, a board of directors, officers, employees, creditors, and customers. A student asks who generally has legal authority to manage or direct the corporation's business and aff...
Citations: Model Business Corporation Act principles
Corporate officers receive repeated written warnings that a plant is violating safety regulations. They deliberately ignore the warnings because stopping production would reduce quarterly bonuses. Which fiduciary-duty co...
Citations: General corporate fiduciary-duty principles
...nly United States citizens may work as public-school teachers, police officers, tax auditors, or janitors in state office buildings. A lawful permanent resident denied a janitor position challenges the statute under equa...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Graham v. Richardson, Sugarman v. Dougall, Foley v. Connelie, Mathews v. Diaz
After giving Miranda warnings, officers questioned a seriously injured suspect in a hospital bed while he was in extreme pain. They ignored repeated requests for medical help and told him that treatment would be delayed...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Procedure, U.S. Const. amend. V, Dickerson v. United States, Colorado v. Connelly, Mincey v. Arizona
...ip that a homeowner kept cocaine inside his house. Without a warrant, officers walked onto the homeowner's front porch with a trained drug dog. The dog sniffed at the front door and alerted. Which statement is most accur...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Procedure, U.S. Const. amend. IV, Florida v. Jardines
...elivery driver of moving stolen medical equipment. Without a warrant, officers attached a GPS device to the underside of the driver's personal van while it was parked in his driveway, next to the side door of his home. O...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. IV, Katz v. United States, Riley v. California, Carpenter v. United States, United States v. Jones, Florida v. Jardines, California v. Greenwood
Without a warrant, officers climbed over a locked farm gate marked "No Trespassing" and walked half a mile from the farmhouse to an unfenced field. The field was not used for family activities and was separated from the...
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Procedure, U.S. Const. amend. IV, Oliver v. United States
A corporation's directors want to approve a time-sensitive bank loan without holding a meeting. Which statement best describes board action by written consent? The correct choice states the standard written-consent me...
Citations: Model Business Corporation Act board-action principles
MetroHarvest, Inc. has a five-member board. Its bylaws require three directors for a quorum and majority approval of directors present at a meeting. The corporation's chief operating officer has signed ordinary supply...
Citations: NCBE MEE Business Associations outline, Model Business Corporation Act board-action principles
A board forms a three-director committee to handle financing matters. The committee signs a merger agreement even though the board resolution authorized the committee only to evaluate financing proposals and report ba...
Citations: Model Business Corporation Act committee principles
A corporation's articles include a provision limiting directors' monetary liability to the fullest extent permitted by the corporation statute. A shareholder alleges that directors made an ordinary negligent business...
Citations: Model Business Corporation Act director-liability limitation principles
A corporation's board approved a new product line after reviewing market studies, asking questions of management, and discussing the risks. The product failed and caused a substantial loss. A shareholder sues the dire...
Citations: Model Business Corporation Act director standards
A director attends a board meeting at which the board approves a risky contract. The director says nothing during the vote, and the minutes do not record any objection. Which statement is most accurate? The correct an...
Citations: Model Business Corporation Act director dissent principles
A director is sued because of actions taken as a director. The director wins dismissal of all claims on the merits and seeks reimbursement of reasonable defense expenses. Which statement is most accurate? The correct...
Citations: Model Business Corporation Act indemnification principles
...wer states the core corporate-opportunity limitation on directors and officers. Model Business Corporation Act business-opportunity principles, General corporate fiduciary-duty principles
Citations: Model Business Corporation Act business-opportunity principles, General corporate fiduciary-duty principles
A director owns 40% of a vendor that is seeking a long-term supply contract with the corporation. The director participates in the board discussion and votes for the contract. Which statement best describes how the tr...
Citations: Model Business Corporation Act conflicted-interest principles
A supplier asks whether one member of a corporation's board can sign a $2 million contract and bind the corporation solely because she is a director. Which answer is most accurate? The correct choice distinguishes the...
Citations: Model Business Corporation Act board-management principles
BrightFarm, Inc. has a nine-member board. Its bylaws allow committees and provide that five directors constitute a quorum. The board created a three-member compensation committee and authorized it to "recommend execut...
Citations: NCBE MEE Business Associations outline, Model Business Corporation Act board committee and meeting principles
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