Elements of a Contract Assessment
For this assignment, you will have to draw on knowledge from several involving the elements of a contract, changes to contracts – offer, acceptance, amendments, capacity, legality, discharge, breach etc. I want you to lay out all possible legal issue related to contracts and then explain the most likely way the court would look at it.
Coco Martin and Dream Johnson, Freshmen at Northshore High and are local TikTop and Instagram celebrities performing under the name “Coco Dream”. They perform covers of popular songs by artists like Nicki Minaj, Lil Kilm, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion on TikTok and private parties. Dottie Umbridge has never seen the duo perform and doesn’t know much about them. But her daughter, Vyolyt (pronounced Vi-o-let) is begging for her mother to hire them to perform at her 13th birthday party.
Vyolet has just started Mt. Carmel and Ms. Umbridge wants to make sure she will be popular with the other girls and wants to impress their mothers. She contacts the girls through Instagram and let them know of her interest and they negotiate how long the set will last and their fee of $5000.
A week later Ms. Umbridge begins to get worried that the young ladies may have proper values after seeing the outfits they wore for their most recent Tik Tok video and sends the girls an e-mail detailing the parts of the body that must be covered. The girls reply “Okay”.
Ms Umbridge is still worried and sends the girls a list of instructions demanding they also mustn’t do anything promote underage drinking, illegal drug use, promiscuity, gender fluidity or the gay lifestyle or use explicit lyrics.
Coco Dream arrived with their equipment and Ms Umbridge approves of their outfits.
They are halfway through their first song of the set Cardi B’s “Up” when Ms Umbridge unplugs their equipment and demand the young women leave immediately. She refused to pay them anything stating the lyics were vile.
The young women demand to get paid and said they had a valid contract.
Ms. Umbridge says there was no contract and if there was, the young women were in breach.
Identify the legal issues involved in these facts, cover as many as you can find. 5pts List the elements valid contract and explain where each can be found in this set of facts – naming the elements of a contract 5pts. Connecting them to the facts 5pts
Was there a breach and why? 5pts
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