Ralph Nader was an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. His career was very profitable until his publication of the book “Unsafe at any speed”. Unsafe at any speed is simply a series of rants towards cars and their inventors. The most important owner that was mentioned was the company called General Motors. They took a specific offense to the mention of one of their prized products. This excerpt that talks of the product completely belittled the positives, and showed the negative aspects. General Motors became infuriated by this book, because of how it made the company appear to its customers. After Nader book had been released for a while, he started experiencing some strange things that were out of the ordinary. Some of the things include: being followed and heavily monitored, threatening phone calls during the night, his friends being …show more content…
interviewed about him in particular, and efforts to discover the contents of his bank account. This list of unordinary things were said to be performed by an agent hired by General Motors, in order to frighten Nader into destroying all copies of his book “Unsafe at any Speed.” However, the results were the complete opposite, considering the two went on to battle their feud in a court room. In the case Nader v.
General Motors, Nader was the plaintiff and General Motors the defendant. The plaintiff Nader’s argument is that after General Motors learned of his book publication involving their company, they proceeded to intimidate him. Nader had examples of these intimidation tactics being: questioning the Plaintiff’s acquaintances about the Plaintiff’s social, racial, religious and sexual views, kept the Plaintiff under surveillance in public places for an unreasonable amount of time, causing him to be accosted by girls to trap him into illicit relationships, made threatening, harassing and obnoxious telephone calls, tapped his telephone and eavesdropped on his private conversations by using mechanical and electrical equipment, and conducting a harassing investigation on him. Nader sued the General Motors for invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and interference with the Plaintiff’s economic advantage. General Motors denied all of these accusations and tried to convince the court to dismiss all claims, but he was denied. The Defendant then
appealed. The most important intrusions in Nader’s life were the wire tapping of his telephone and stress cause due to this entire incident. In an out-of-court settlement of his suit against G.M. for invasion of privacy, the company agreed to pay Nader $425,000 in damages. Personally I feel that Nader was wronged in this situation. General Motors should’ve known better than to harass an accredited author, who was well-known. The lesson to be learned here is that when somebody criticizes you prove them wrong. If General Motors had taken this route they would have saved a couple hundred thousand. In the end Nader got money to cover the so called “stress” from the situation, so he should be good for a while.
In Laduzinski v. Alvarez & Marsal Taxand LLC, plaintiff was looking for a job with defendant, Alvarez & Marsal Taxand LLC. Plaintiff, Laduzinski, claimed that he was lured away from his job under false pretenses since defendants hired him to get access to his contacts. Nine months later, after plaintiff had given all his contacts, the manager of the Alvarez companies fired him because there was no work for him. Laduzinski brought a claim to recover damages for fraud in the inducement.
Belanger v. Swift Transportation, Inc. is a case concerning the qualified privilege of employers. In this case, Belanger, a former employee of Swift Transportation, sued the company for libel in regard to posting the reason for his termination on a government data website accessible to other potential employers. Swift has a policy of automatic termination if a driver is in an accident, unless it can be proved that it was unpreventable. When Belanger rear ended another vehicle while driving for Swift, the company determined the accident was preventable, while Belanger maintained it was not. Upon his termination, Swift posted on a database website for promoting highway safety that he was fired because he “did not meet the company’s safety standards,” (Melvin, 2015, p. 265), causing Belanger to sue the company.
He creatively conveys this idea by using an example of various people in their unique cars with different bumper stickers to represent their diverse beliefs. By doing so, he paints an image that portrays all of these people in their cars, with their passionate opinions, are normally traveling through traffic, not caring who believes what. This descriptive portrait show the author’s ideal versions of society, where people don’t blow things out of proportion just because they hold different opinions. In the example he adds that, of course, “there will be a selfish jerk who zips up the shoulder and cuts in a the last minute” to represent a “real” problem of America and stating that the individual “is scorned. This crazy driver is meant to highlight that, yes, there will be some real threats in the world, but America will be more apt to dealing with them if Americans put aside their minor differences and focus only on the problems that are a real danger to the country. Stewart’s traffic example contributes to his purpose by displaying every day people that get along just fine, despite what they might believe, thus showing his viewers that different people are able to get along just fine on a daily
In the beginning of his memoir, Hamper expresses deep animosity towards shoprats and the assembly line. Though Hamper believes that through rebellion, he subverts or shifts the paradigm that his lineage set up, he sequentially epitomizes the paradigm itself. Hamper’s expressions towards the GM Plant shifts from disdain to praise. After an extensive duration of working in the mechanical system that he trapped himself into, he becomes the ultimate upholder of the system. When Hamper looks back on the work he has done, he equates the GM plant as his home: “I look over at my old job. Some new guy’s leaning there at my bench. My faithful rivet gun dangles at his hip. It infuriates me… As far as I’m concerned, that damn rivet gun is private property… It’s sad and confusing. I almost feel like I belong here. Almost” (233). The connotations that surround the concepts of the GM plant indeed shift from distinctively negative to positive. In summation, Hamper submits his body, then his mind accordingly, to both the system and the paradigm. He ends up falling in love with his occupation, as dictated by his predetermined path. Hamper therefore exemplifies the conformation of civilians to the overarching governing body. Although he fails to subvert the paradigm of working at General Motors, he achieves a shift in the paradigm that governs the way he views the system, in that his outlook on his
Marty Anderson was an employee for Family Auto Repair (FAR) in Memphis and was transfer to their Jackson store, which was an hour and a half from his house. The company allow Marty to use a company vehicle to make his long commute, although he had his own vehicle. The terms of the explicit permission to use the vehicle were: to and from work, during lunch breaks, and to deliver and transfer items between FAR’s two facilities either before work or on his way home. Marty Anderson became a victim of the dilemma when he fell asleep at the wheel and injured a man, Steve Spritzer, in the company vehicle, at a time when he did not have explicit permission to be using the vehicle. Marty Anderson’s case can be argued in his favor or in FAR’s favor,
This trend began to ebb with MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., and the ruling by an appellate court that favored MacPherson, the plaintiff. This case, however, was more a result of political expediency than a reasoned verdict based on fact. In this case, the plaintiff argued that his 1911 Baby Buick had a defective wheel that collapsed while traveling at a low rate of speed, hitting a telephone pole, and pinning him under, breaking his wrist and cracking several ribs; however, the facts of the trial revealed that the accident as it was recounted by the plaintiff was a physical impossibility, but due to the increasing pressures to dispense with privity rulings, the court imposed on the defendant the responsibility of inspecting and discarding defective wheels, implying causal negligence even though the plaintiff had driven the vehicle for more than a year in less than perfect road conditions without a mishap. (MacPherson Tort Story; MacPherson v. Buick Motor Company: Simplifying the Facts While Reshaping the Law, Pg.
Entering the 1950s, no corporation even came close to General Motors in its size, or it's profits. GM was twice as big as the second biggest company in the world, Standard Oil of New Jersey (father of today's ExxonMobil), and had a vast diversity of businesses ranging from home appliances to providing insurance and building Buicks, Cadillacs, Chevys, GMCs, Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs and trains. It was so big that it made more than half the cars sold in the United States and the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division was threatening to break it up(to prevent Monopolies, Like how Standard oil was broken up). In the 21st century, it's almost hard to imagine how powerful GM was in the 50s and 60s.Sports cars from Europe were getting popular, because of servicemen coming back from WWII, and wanted sports cars, but American Automakers didn't make sports cars, so they would either buy foreign, or go without. A man named McLean would still try to make a low priced sports car. But it didn't work. The idea of a car coming from GM that could compete with Jaguar, MG or Triumph was pretty much considered stupid and insane. C1:Generation: Bad but valuable. Just 300 Corvettes were made in 1953. Each of these first-year Corvettes was a white roadster with red interior. The Corvette was made of fiberglass for light weight, but the first cars were made with a really weak, (and kind of pathetic for a “sports car”) 150 horsepower 6-cylinder engine and an automatic transmission. The result was more of a look at me, I’m rich car than a race car. The first generation of the Corvette was introduced late in 1953. It was originally designed as a show car for GM's traveling car show, Motorama, the Corvette was a Show Car for the 1953 Motorama display at...
Under Armour and Nike are very close competitors in the athletic wear for sports and recreational use. Both Under Armour and Nike have goods and bads but at the end of the day Under Armour is a better company, with a better clothes line. Nike came out over thirty years before Under Armour, but Under Armour has by far surpassed Nike in popularity and style. In another thirty years when Under Armour has been out as long as Nike today, Under Armour will be more superior than Nike in the athletic field. Nike will eventually be over ran by nike and will be a small company like Adidas
Reinitz, J. (2011, Aug 01). Discrimination suit filed against john deere. McClatchy - Tribune Business News. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/880299755?accountid=8243
These most recent depositions stem from a case involving Penn State insurance provider Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association Insurance Co., which is seeking to deny reimbursement for settlement money that the school has already paid to the alleged victims. In all, an expert working on behalf of the insurance company has identified six incidents (including the
The annual report of the company shows status of the company’s business. Through the annual report of the company, creditors, investors, and everyone else can see the financial health of the business for the company. Fords and General Motors are two competitors in auto mobile industry area, and these two companies are most famous automobile companies that United States manufacturing businesses. Since these two companies are in same industry area, the investors compare these two companies which company is more worthy to invest their money. Annual report is financial certification that how a company was financially. Liquidity, solvency, and profitability are three way to compare these two companies financially.
According to the facts in this case, Walkovszky was hit by a cab four years ago in New York and the cab was negligently operated by defendant Marches. The defendant Carlton, who is being sued, owned and ran the cab company in which he set up ten corporations, including Seon. Each of the corporations had two cabs registered in its name. The minimum automobile liability insurance required by the law was $10,000. According to the opinion of the court the plaintiff asserted that he is also ?entitled to hold their stock holder personally liable for damages, because multiple corporate structures constitutes an unlawful attempt to defraud the general member of the public.?
GANNETT CO. v. DEPASQUALE. (n.d.).The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Retrieved April 7, 2014, from http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1978/1978_77_1301
In June 2012, a social media defamation case was brought to trial, the Clay Corporation v. Colter. In Massachusetts, Clay Nissan fires an employee and the emplo...
...no matter what. He thought that spending time with family was far more important than anything else. It’s a good thing to have values like that. He’s an honest hard working man that deserved all the good things he got. He didn’t fold when it looked hopeless at Chrysler, he did everything he could to keep the company alive, and now it’s having more success than it ever has in it’s history of existence. This is a very good book, and I recommend that everyone read this one. It’s got a lot of interesting stuff and advice in it. It also gives great insight into the auto manufacturing business. There are a lot of stereotype’s out there that say a car company tried to kill them. But really, all of the guys that make the cars are driving them themselves. They don’t purposely make bad cars, they drive them and so do their kids, and I don’t think all of them are suicidal maniacs either. I think most of them are sane people. I say one thing we need less of in America is blood sucking lawyers. They’re just greedy people that we could do without some of them. I learned that in order to succeed, you must not give up easily. You can’t give up on your dreams until you have put your all into it.