Fact Pattern 18-1 Jean LeFleur, Owner of Happy Feet, a Company That Makes

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Fact Pattern 18-1
Jean LeFleur, owner of Happy Feet, a company that makes environmentally-sensitive foot wear, decided to move operations from Los Angeles to Bozeman, Montana. LeFleur wanted to be in an area noted for environmental quality. He built a new plant that produced oil-based sludge from its production process. The sludge could have been treated at the plant. But LeFleur decided that treatment was too costly, so the company dumped sludge into the Gallatin River, which runs through Happy Feet property. Other sludge was buried in drums in a field at night.
-Refer to Fact Pattern 18-1. If Janet sues Happy Feet under the common law, she will most likely sue for:

• A) public nuisance
• B) corporate nuisance
• C) private nuisance
• D) state nuisance
• E) she could not sue under any of these theories

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Definitions:

F Distribution

A probability distribution that arises frequently as the null distribution of a test statistic, especially in variance analysis.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the calculation of a statistic.

Numerator

The top number of a fraction, showing the number of parts out of the denominator considered.

Chi-square Distribution

A probability distribution that is used to describe the distribution of a sum of the squares of k independent standard normal random variables, often used in hypothesis testing.