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BUS 307 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric

will apply the discipline-specific knowledge necessary to successfully address real-world business situations such as business formation a

government and industry regulations. You will also effectively communicate issues and facts to peers and professionals. You will evaluate

and assess relevant legal issues. These skills are integral in both our personal and professional lives.

Prompt
For Milestone Two, craft a professional memo to your clients Javier and Elena with your preliminary thoughts on their case. Your memo s

facts, and support your conclusions for each issue. Your memo should be appropriate in format, tone, and content for this purpose. Alway

communications.

You will receive feedback on this milestone. After receiving your feedback, make any necessary revisions and include them in your final p

Case Study 2
Javier’s Very Hot Sauce! has hit the market. It has become a huge success locally, and they are looking to grow nationally. Javier has paten

sauce’s name and logo. Demand is so high that Javier and Elena are working full-time on the business. Their children, Antonio and Maria,

Javier has made Antonio and Maria partial owners of the business. Javier and Antonio handle the production, sales, and delivery. Elena an

business management tasks. They also hired a longtime friend, Tiffany, as the bookkeeper. While there are more employees now, Javier a

corporate account.

At this point, the business has only one business credit card that they use to buy Javier’s Very Hot Sauce! production supplies. There is al

property. The business owes vendors money for supplies, but it is consistently in the red. Individual family members carry high personal c

van, too.

Elena and Maria are working on securing a new production facility and distribution chain. They need this to accommodate an upcoming c

warehouse on several acres, Elena and Maria approach their local credit union for a loan.

An issue arises during the commercial loan accounting review process. The bank discovers that Tiffany has been siphoning off large amou

hide her actions. She has written several checks from the corporate account and forged both Javier and Elena’s signatures on several che

several of the forged checks to Don, a local loan shark, to repay her gambling debts. After feeling some guilt about her actions, Tiffany wr

into the collection box at church. The embezzlement is so severe that the family fears Javier’s Very Hot Sauce! business is now on the brin

Meanwhile, Antonio has refused to enter into an exclusive distribution deal with the local grocery store. This upsets Tyrone, the owner of

promoted Javier’s product and believes he is the one who made it a success. As a result of this dispute, Tyrone has discontinued buying th

recipe for Javier’s Very Hot Sauce! and has posted it online in an act of vengeance.

Specifically, address the following rubric criteria in your memo to Javier and Elena:

I. Determine the legal defenses Javier and Elena might raise about the checks written by Tiffany to Don, and explain why

II. Determine the legal defenses Javier and Elena might raise about the check written by Tiffany and delivered to the churc

unsuccessful.

III. Determine civil claims available to Javier and Elena against Tiffany based on her actions, and evaluate the potential for s

IV. Analyze the forms of bankruptcy available to the business in this instance based on the chosen type of business entity, a

why.

A. Assume the business entity is the same form as you chose in Case Study 1.
 V. Analyze the implications of a potential bankruptcy action on the business assets and explain which are subject to forced

A. Assume the business entity is the same form as you chose in Case Study 1.

VI. Analyze the implications of a potential bankruptcy action by the business on the personal assets of the individual family

are subject to forced sale, liens, or forfeiture.

A. Assume the business entity is the same form as you chose in Case Study 1.

VII. Determine the legal recourse Javier has against Tyrone for infringement of intellectual property rights, and explain why

What to Submit
Your submission should be a 4- to 7-page memo with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Use APA fo

Milestone Two Rubric

Case Study 2: Legal Defenses Meets “Proficient” criteria and Determines the legal defenses Determines the legal defenses
is well supported using Javier and Elena might raise Javier and Elena might raise
appropriate sources about the checks written by about the checks written by
Tiffany to Don and explains Tiffany to Don, but does not
why defenses would be explain why defenses would be
successful or unsuccessful successful or unsuccessful

Case Study 2: Church Meets “Proficient” criteria and Determines the legal defenses Determines the legal defenses
is well supported with Javier and Elena might raise Javier and Elena might raise
appropriate sources about the check written by about the check written by
Tiffany and delivered to the Tiffany and delivered to the
church and explains why church, but does not explain
defenses would be successful why defenses would be
or unsuccessful successful or unsuccessful

Case Study 2: Civil Claims Meets “Proficient” criteria and Determines civil claims Determines civil claims
provides specific supporting available to Javier and Elena available to Javier and Elena
evidence applied to each against Tiffany based on her against Tiffany, but does not
element of the relevant legal actions and evaluates the evaluate the potential for
test potential for success of those success of those claims
claims

Case Study 2: Bankruptcy Meets “Proficient” criteria and Analyzes the forms of Analyzes the forms of
offers research to illustrate bankruptcy available to the bankruptcy available to the
why the chosen types of business in this instance based business in this instance based
bankruptcy would be available on the chosen type of business on the chosen type of business
based on the chosen type of entity and determines which entity, but does not determine
business entity form is most appropriate and which form is most appropriate
why or why

Case Study 2: Business Meets “Proficient” criteria and Analyzes the implications of Analyzes the implications of
Assets offers a nuanced insight into potential bankruptcy action on potential bankruptcy action on
the relationship between a business assets and explains business assets, but does not
bankruptcy action by a business which are subject to forced explain which are subject to
and business assets sales, liens, or forfeiture forced sales, liens, or forfeiture

Case Study 2: Family Meets “Proficient” criteria and Analyzes implications of Analyzes implications of
M b ff d i i ht i t b k t ti b th b k t ti b th
 Members offers a nuanced insight into bankruptcy action by the bankruptcy action by the
the relationship between a business on the personal assets business on the personal assets
bankruptcy action by a business of individual family members of individual family members,
and personal assets and explains if the assets of but does not explain if the
business owners are subject to assets of business owners are
forced sale, liens, or forfeiture subject to forced sale, liens, or
forfeiture

Case Study 2: Intellectual Meets “Proficient” criteria and Determines the legal recourse Determines the legal recourse
Property Rights cites specific, applicable rules of Javier has against Tyrone for Javier has against Tyrone for
law infringement of intellectual infringement of intellectual
property rights and explains property rights, but does not
why Javier will be successful or explain why Javier will be
unsuccessful successful or unsuccessful

Articulation of Response Submission is free of errors Submission has no major errors Submission has major errors
related to citations, grammar, related to citations, grammar, related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, and spelling, syntax, or organization spelling, syntax, or organization
organization and is presented that negatively impact
in a professional and easy-to- readability and articulation of
read format main ideas