Topic

Harris v. Forklift Systems

Instructions

Use the IRAC method.
a. Facts: about four or five sentence telling us the background of what happened and how we got where we are. This includes relevant facts such as who, when , where, how.
b. Issue: this must be a question, meaning it starts with a capital letter and ends with a question mark.
c. Rule: the rule is the answer to the question which tells us about the law
d. Application: this simply WHY. Why did the judge decide the answer to the question (issue) this way for these people with these facts.
e. Conclusion: Who wins. Sometimes when we are reading we get so caught up in the details it is easy to forget to find out who won.

Answer preview

During her term as an executive at Forklift Systems, Inc. Harris was constantly abused by the president of the company due to her gender and subjected to sexual intimations. The business organization president mentioned that he would end her sexual advances when Harris complained, but he went on behaving in the same way. As a result of this, Harris decided to quit her job and filed a lawsuit against the defendant for developing an insulting place of work founded on her gender.

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