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L203 – Business Law
Fall 2012
Applied Learning Assignment #5

This assignment is required.

Maximum Possible Points: The maximum number of points you may earn for this assignment is 50.

You are to work on this assignment alone without assistance from others; however, you may use your text, class lectures and your notes in completing the assignment.

Points earned from this assignment will be added to your total point score for the semester. (See the course syllabus for the course grading scale.)

Due Date Mon., Nov. 12th: This is an out-of-class assignment and is to be turned in no later than the beginning of class on the due date.

The Assignment: Read the news articles and the …show more content…

This tiny Union City town has been mourning since the crash last week. On Monday, the five children of Terry and Barbara Mann were buried after a service at the First Christian Church in Lake Butler. They were Nikki, 15, and adopted children Elizabeth, 15, Johnny, 13, Heaven, 3, and 20-month-old Anthony.

Their cousins, twins Ashley and Amanda Finn, 13, were buried Wednesday next to the body of William Edwin Scott, 70, the grandfather of the seven children, who died of a heart attack after hearing about the accident.

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WESH 2 Orlando wesh.com Posted: 6:44 pm EST January 26, 2006

Fatal Accident Driver Has Long Legal History

Investigators are still piecing together why an 18-wheeler slammed into the back of a car and school bus in Lake Butler yesterday, causing seven children to die. The truck that was involved in the accident was owned and operated by Crete Carrier Corp. It’s a trucking company that has a pretty good reputation for safety nationwide.

But the driver who was behind the wheel had anything but that. The WESH 2 I-Team discovered that he has a long history of problems with the law. According to driving records obtained by the I-Team, Alvin Wilkerson has been cited for eight traffic violations since 1995, including two speeding tickets and two seat belt violations. He’s also been cited twice for driving with a suspended or revoked

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