Reference no: EM132134363

1. Plaintiff Lumber Company operated a lumber yard in Akron, Ohio. Defendant began working as a manager for Plaintiff. He signed an employment contract with Plaintiff. The contract included a provision that prevented Defendant from working in a similar enterprise within a 15- mile radius of Plaintiff’s business for 10 years after leaving his employment. Defendant quit in order to open his own lumber yard in Akron. Three of Plaintiff’s employers went to work at Defendant’s lumber yard.

1. Highlight the pertinent facts;

2. Identify the issue of law and/or fact posed by the case problem;

3. What should be the decision in the case?

4. The reasoning for such decision.

2. Assume you are sequencing jobs using Johnson's rule. There are three jobs called A, B and C. The first step in assembling and the second step is painting. Job A requires 3 hours to assemble and 6 hours to paint. Job B requires 7 hours to assemble and 2 hours to paint. Job C requires 4 hours to assemble and 1 hour to paint. The objective is to minimize the total processing time of all jobs, using Johnson’s rule. What is the correct sequence to process the jobs?

A) A - C - B

B) B - C - A

C) B - A - C

D) A - B - C

E) C – B - A

3. Commercial or other use of someone else’s name or likeness is not considered to be an invasion of that person’s privacy.

Ture or False

4. One drawback of a product-oriented layout is that work stoppage at any one point ties up the whole operation

A. True

B. False