Question: can you please help me draft a thoughtful response to this person? Good morning, your Honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. My name is
can you please help me draft a thoughtful response to this person? Good morning, your Honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. My name is Clement Jiang. I represent the plaintiff Rachel & Ralph in this case. I ordered a brand-new TV from Amazon early last month. One week later, they told me they could not deliver it because the ultimate seller had a shortage of stocks. Amazon refunded every penny plus a gift card as a token of apology. This is how an honest store should behave and treat a non-fault purchaser. Unfortunately, my client has not been as fortunate as me. In this case, my client entered into a binding agreement with Ralph Lauren for its clothing. Trusting that such a high-end designer store would honor the contract, my client paid $100,000 in advance. To my client's disappointment, Ralph Lauren not only failed to deliver any summer or winter clothing due to a strike at their factory, but also deducted $25,000 from my client's advance payment, calling such a deduction a change order fee. Ladies and gentlemen, at this point, many of you may have a number of questions in your mind: First, if Ralph Lauren did not even manufacture any clothing for my client due to the strike, they should not have incurred any manufacturing costs, then what exactly the $25,000 change order fee is for? Is Ralph Lauren getting a windfall gain? Second, if my client has never received any summer or winter clothing as per the contract, is it just and fair that Ralph Lauren refused to pay m
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