This "issue spotter" will present you with a scenario drawn from real situations faced by businesses. Your job is to find, discuss, and analyze the potential litigation risks, outcomes, and ethical problems.

Bullet points should take the following form. First, specify the situation from the scenario. Second, identify the legal or ethical issue. Third, for legal issues specify the elements of the risk, and for ethical issues state the framework with which you will analyze the situation. Fourth, come to a conclusion. In a question concerning contracts, you should include the possible recovery for breach of contract, if any, in the conclusion.

Issue Spotter,

Follow the instructions on Canvas to submit your analysis. Although it is unlikely that this many legal mishaps might occur to any one company in a short time, many of the scenarios are based on actual cases.$$

Boise Specialty Foods, LLC $($BSF$)$ is a small business that has operated a food truck in downtown Boise for several years. The food truck, which serves British pub food like fish and chips, is called $$Deep Fried.$$ Seeking to expand, and to capture market share from somewhat healthier lunch options around town, BSF invested in a second food truck. This one would serve fish tacos, and would be called $$Fish is Practically a Vegetable,$$ or $$the fish truck$$ for short $($BSF opted not to discuss their names with a marketing or legal consultant, perhaps to their detriment.$)$

The fish truck$$s first day of operations began a series of mishaps. The range in the truck, which had been purchased new from Restaurant Supply Co$.,$ failed to work. It took a week for the company to ship out a new range, and the food truck was not able to operate during that time. When the new range did arrive, the heat settings were misaligned, so that turning the temperature dial to $$hot$$ resulted in a low temperature, and $$low$$ resulted in a hot temperature. Because of this, the first few batches of fish tacos sold to customers were raw. Able, the owner who was operating the fish truck that day, was so distracted in the lunch hour rush he didn$$t notice the state of the fish.

Brad, who purchased one of these tacos, was so disgusted he posted the following to Yelp: $$This guy Able who runs the new fish truck is trying to kill people. He literally tried to poison me$.$ If you want to be robbed, go there. If you want real food, go somewhere else.$$ He also posted a sign in a public space next to the food truck that read $$Notice: Anyone eating here is buying a hospital stay. The food here is all rotten.$$

Unfortunately, Able$$s problems didn$$t end there. While dealing with angry customers who had been served raw fish, he didn$$t notice a fishbone in a taco served to Cathy. The bone lodged in Cathy$$s throat, and required a visit to the hospital to remove. On the way to the hospital, Cathy $($distracted by the pain in her throat$),$ crashed her car into Debra$$s$,$ resulting in substantial damage to Debra$$s car. Cathy happened to own a food supply store that serviced both of BSF$$s trucks. Upset by the hospital stay, she refused to deliver supplies to the trucks. Because she was under contract to deliver specialty ingredients not easily obtainable from another supplier, Deep Fried was unable to operate for a week, and the fish truck was able to operate, but only after paying double for similar ingredients at a local specialty store. Art Gallery, Inc., next door to Deep Fried, also lost substantial sales that week, as it depended on patrons at Deep Fried to come and browse the store after eating.

During that same week, Eli bought a Sparkle Soda from the fish truck, which exploded in his hand as he opened it$,$ slicing his hand open. The soda was manufactured by Sparkle Co$.,$ from which BSF purchased a bulk quantity each month. Able distinctly remembers selling Eli the soda $($as people rarely ask for Sparkle$$s $$Blueberry Guava Mango Cherry Cheer$),$ and recalls that there was nothing obviously wrong with the bottle at that time.$$

Frustrated with all of this, as Able was closing down the fish truck for the day, he shook his arms to the heavens and shouted $$I$$d sell this whole business for nothing!$$ Fran, a venture capitalist who happened to be walking by$,$ said $$Let me buy you a drink.$$ Over drinks at a nearby restaurant, Fran listened to Able$$s frustrations. She said $$I bet you wouldn$$t sell this whole business for $$10,000.$ Able said $$I bet you don$$t have $$10,000.$ Fran $($estimating the real value of the business was closer to $$500,000)$ quickly wrote a check to BSF for $$10,000$ and handed it to Able. Able tried to hand back the check, but Fran said, $$Sold$!$ and walked away.