QUESTION SET TWO
Health-Conscious Harry, a supervisor in the research department at Illini Healthy-Dog Biscuits, recently posted a blog advising pet owners not to feed their dogs biscuits because they were higher in fat and calories than ordinary dog food. Poodle Perry, the CEO of the Company, wants to discharge Health-Conscious Harry for writing a blog contrary to the interests of Illini Healthy-Dog Biscuits. Using the themes identified in this week’s readings, and incorporating into your analysis one of the cases found in those readings, draft a memo to Poodle Perry analyzing the risks associated with terminating Health-Conscious Harry’s employment.
Your audience is upper management at Illini Dog Biscuits. When writing for such an audience, it’s important to quickly focus their attention on the primary issues and the analysis, which is the take away that the reader can apply to future fact patterns. Many students struggle with the format to analyze legal issues and error on the side of over-inclusion. When in doubt regarding the format for analyzing legal issues, follow the IRAC formula.
- First, identify the narrow Issue(s) identified in the fact pattern. In addition, identify the potential ramifications/business considerations presented by the issue.
- Second, identify the Rule or test the courts use to analyze such issues. To receive points for this part of the question, you must reference the case in which the rule/test was applied using a complete case citation.
- Third, identify the court’s Application or Analysis of the salient/most important facts to the rule/test.
- Finally, using the court’s analysis, identify the Conclusion that you anticipate the court would reach based on the facts presented in the Health-Conscious Harry fact pattern.
