- language in contract that allows a party to accept a defective performance without surrendering its right to a claim of damagesBlue-pencil ruleBreachConsiderationDeceptionDuressForbearancegenuine assentJustifiable RelianceMitigationNondisclosureQuantum MeruitRescissionReservation of Rights clauseRevocationUnjust EnrichmentUsury
- Exists when a supervisor's conduct causes anxiety and creates an offensive work environment. Unwelcome flirting, sexual propositions, use of degrading words of sexual nature, display of sexually explicit pictures.Hostile Work EnvironmentTangible Employment Action
- Mental incompetence due to drugs, alcohol, illness or age.Contractual CapacityFactual IncapacityStatus Incapacity
- a promise is made by only one party, acceptance is by completing the actBilateralUnilateral
- termination of contractBlue-pencil ruleBreachConsiderationDeceptionDuressForbearancegenuine assentJustifiable RelianceMitigationNondisclosureQuantum MeruitRescissionReservation of Rights clauseRevocationUnjust EnrichmentUsury
- A federal program of aid for the aged, blind and disabledAffirmative ActionEmployment-at-willMailbox rulenational originReverse DiscriminationSupplemental Security Income ProgramsValidity GeneralizationWhistleblower laws
- The ______ clause provides broader protection than the _____ clause.
- lending money at an interest rate higher than that allowable by lawBlue-pencil ruleBreachConsiderationDeceptionDuressForbearancegenuine assentJustifiable RelianceMitigationNondisclosureQuantum MeruitRescissionReservation of Rights clauseRevocationUnjust EnrichmentUsury
- A small monetary award (often one dollar) granted to a plaintiff when no actual damage was suffered.Compensatory damagesLiquidated DamagesNominal damagesPunitive damages
- an exception in employment law that permits sex, age, religion, and the like to be used when making employment decisions, but only if they are reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business.Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)Equal Pay ActFederal Wiretapping ActTitle VIIUSERRA
- compulsion, forceBlue-pencil ruleBreachConsiderationDeceptionDuressForbearancegenuine assentJustifiable RelianceMitigationNondisclosureQuantum MeruitRescissionReservation of Rights clauseRevocationUnjust EnrichmentUsury
- A contract with extremely one-sided and unfair termsProcedural UnconscionabilitySubstantive Unconscionability
- damages that parties to a contract agree in advance should be paid if the contract is breachedCompensatory damagesLiquidated DamagesNominal damagesPunitive damages
- states that an offer is considered accepted at the time that the acceptance is communicatedAffirmative ActionEmployment-at-willMailbox rulenational originReverse DiscriminationSupplemental Security Income ProgramsValidity GeneralizationWhistleblower laws
- Monetary damages that may be awarded to a plaintiff to punish the defendant and deter similar conduct in the future.Compensatory damagesLiquidated DamagesNominal damagesPunitive damages
- not making known to the publicBlue-pencil ruleBreachConsiderationDeceptionDuressForbearancegenuine assentJustifiable RelianceMitigationNondisclosureQuantum MeruitRescissionReservation of Rights clauseRevocationUnjust EnrichmentUsury
- Refrain from doing an act that one has the legal right to do Blue-pencil ruleBreachConsiderationDeceptionDuressForbearancegenuine assentJustifiable RelianceMitigationNondisclosureQuantum MeruitRescissionReservation of Rights clauseRevocationUnjust EnrichmentUsury
- unfair or irregular bargainingProcedural UnconscionabilitySubstantive Unconscionability
- tests that are court approved in one state will be valid in another stateAffirmative ActionEmployment-at-willMailbox rulenational originReverse DiscriminationSupplemental Security Income ProgramsValidity GeneralizationWhistleblower laws
- prohibits employers from paying employees of one gender less than another gender for equal work that requires substantially equal skill, effort, and responsibility and are performed under similar working conditionsBona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)Equal Pay ActFederal Wiretapping ActTitle VIIUSERRA