Pete is anemployee in Chris' small golf store. Pete likes to practice hisswing and likes to hit balls off a wall at the back of the store.Several times, golf balls have hit customers and other employees.Chris knows he should ask Pete to stop, but he thinks it's funny.One day, Pete "chips" a ball and hits a customer in the eye,causing severe damage. If Chris is the principal and Pete is theagent, Chris is:
Multiple Choice
immune from liability because Pete committed the wrongful act,and Chris did not directly order him to do so.
protected by respondeat superior.
immune from liability because no one had previously beenseriously injured.
directly liable.
14.
Which of thefollowing was the result in Roberts v. Danner, the case inthe text in which an employee driving his personal vehicle to see aphysician for a non-work related injury struck and injured theplaintiff on a road leased by the employer, and the issue waswhether the employer was liable for the plaintiff’s injuries?
Multiple Choice
The employer was not held liable because the employee was in hispersonal vehicle which negates liability based on an agencytheory.
The employer was held liable under the theory of strictliability based on the accident occurring on a road leased by theemployer.
The employer was not held liable because the employee was notacting within the course and scope of his employment.
The employer was held liable under the theory of respondeatsuperior.
The following isfalse regarding the bona fide occupational qualification(BFOQ) permitted by Title VII.
Multiple Choice
An employer may refuse to hire a man with an Asian heritage as abouncer in a bar because he believes people with such a heritageare not aggressive enough.
A Christian church would not have to consider a Muslim as anapplicant for choir director.
No BFOQ exception is permitted with respect to discriminationbased on color.
A gym may refuse to hire a male attendant for a women’s lockerroom.
