Reference no: EM131680951
True/False
1. Washington allows a lawsuit to be brought for wrongful discharge from (or termination of) employment, as an exception to the “terminable at will” employment doctrine, if there is some violation of public policy, but the plaintiff must be able to establish that there is a public policy that has been violated.
2. The typical measure of damages for actions in quasi-contract is “quantum meruit” (“as much as he deserves”).
3. Washington's Consumer Protection Act can be used to enforce its Residential Landlord-Tenant Act provisions.
4. While a tenant has an expectation of privacy under the Landlord-Tenant Act, a landlord is given the right under the Act to enter the tenant’s premises, upon giving the required notice, to inspect the premises, make necessary or agreed repairs, alterations, or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors.
5. If a party uses fraud or negligent misrepresentation to induce another party to enter into a contract, the innocent party would potentially have a contract remedy of rescission or a tort remedy of damages.
6. In order to prevail on a theory of “commercial impracticability,” a party’s performance under the contract must become extremely costly or extremely difficult, and the party who wants to take advantage of the defense must show that the commercial impracticability situation was not foreseeable.
7. An agent with express authority from a principal to sell real property at a non-judicial foreclosure sale for a stated minimum amount will still bind the principal to a sale of that real property for a lower amount, if the agent mistakenly opened the bids for sale of the property at that lower amount, and the buyer could have reasonably relied upon the agent’s apparent authority to sell the property for the lower amount.
8. Washington has been granted permission by OSHA to administer its own worker/workplace health and safety plans, and does so through WISHA, the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act.