This project requires you to find primary sources of law directly relevant to the situation and legal issue set out in the Project Scenario. “Directly relevant” means that the primary sources involve the same or similar legal issue and similar types of facts.
YOU MUST USE THE FOLLOWING FORMAT FOR YOUR RESPONSES:
LEGAL ISSUE;
State a clear and concise legal issue statement, which describes the primary legal issue you’ve been asked to research. Your legal issue statement ought to be in the form of a question that can be answered yes or no.
FEDERAL STATUTE 1- May use any method to find this statute.
1.Provide a Bluebook citation for the federal statute you located.
2.Describe which provision or provisions of the statute are relevant to the legal issue and explain why.
3.Provide a detailed description of your research method (i.e.how did you begin your search and what were the steps taken to locate the statutes?)
FEDERAL CASE 1-Must use at annotations of the statute you located, in the step above, to find this case.
1.Utilize the annotations of the federal statute, listed in the above step, to find this case.
2.Describe the relevant legal issue in the case and the court’s conclusion for that issue.
3.Provide a Bluebook citation for the case law you located.
4.Describe the facts that influenced the court’s conclusion.
5.Explain the legal reasons for the court’s conclusion.
6.Explain why you decided this case was directly relevant to your research situation and issue.
7.Provide a detailed description of how you located the case.

FEDERAL CASE 2-Must use at least one secondary source to find this case.
1.Utilize a secondary source to find this case and provide a Blurbook citation for the secondary source you used.
2.Provide a Bluebook citation for the case law you located.
3.Describe the relevant legal issue in the case and the court’s conclusion for that issue.
4.Describe the facts that influenced the court’s conclusion.
5.Explain the legal reasons for the court’s conclusion.
6.Explain why you decided this case was directly relevant to your research situation and issue.
7.Provide a detailed description of your research method (I.E how did you locate the secondary source and the primary source?)

FEDERAL CASE 3and4- Must use Key Cite to find this case.
1.Use KeyCite to determine whether both Federal Case 1 and Federal Case 2 that you located earlier are “good law”
2.Explain whether each of the two cases are good law,Explain your answer in detail.
3.Use your Key Cite search for Federal Case 1 and 2 to locate two more relevant Federal cases, Provide a Bluebook citation for the case law you located.
4.Describe the relevant legal issue in each of the two cases and the court’s conclusion for that issue
5.Describe the facts that influenced the court’s conclusion
6.Explain the legal reasons for the court’s conclusion.
7.Explain why you decided this case was directly relevant to your research situation and issue.
8.Provide a detailed description of your research method (ie. how did you begin your KeyCite search and what were the steps taken to locate the cases using KeyCite?)

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW;
1.Conduct research using a method of your choice to determine whether there is an applicable administrative agency and law that governs this particular legal issue.
2.State the name of the federal agency that is applicable to the matter.
3.Explain whether there is an applicable administrative law enforced by that federal agency. Be clear why or why not a law applies.

THIS IS THE HYPOTHETICAL SCENARIOS

Josie Duncan is employed as a mechanic at a plastics manufacturing plant in lowell, Massachesetts. She has been employed for several years and has received favorable performance reviews; she has never been the subject of any disciplinary proceeding. Recently the plant’s management announced a shift schedulling change for the mechanics that many of them, including Josie, felt would decrease the overtime pay to which they are legally entitled and which they had regularly earned in the past.
Shortly after the changes were announced, osie encouraged her supervisor, LaVonne Smith, by the vending machine area, and mentioned to Ms Smith her concerns about the impact of the new schedule on overtime pay. Ms Smith told Josie that the new schedule would not negatively affect the overtime pay.Ms. Smith told Josie tht the new schedule would not negativelly affect the overtime to which the mechanics were entitled and could earn. Josie, who was not reassured by these statements, discussed the matter with some of her co-workers and came to share their belief that the plant management’s actions in changing the schedules shifts for mechanics may be in violation oof federal law. Josie started drafting an e-mail message to her supervison and to the plant manager, setting forth these concerns, and expression the intent to contact the U.S.Department of Labor about the matter.
Josie never had a chance to send the e-mail. The week after she spoke with Ms.Smith, Josie was summoned to the manager’s office and told that due to the company’s recent slump in orders due to the recession, she and several other employees were being let go. Josie, however, believes her termination was a result of her complaints about the pending schedule changes and overtime pay.
You have been asked to research only the issue of whether Josie’s actions in expressing her concerns were sufficient to protect her under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act’s prohibition on discharging or discriminating against employees who assert their rights under the Act. Do Not research the issue of whether management’s proposed schedule and overtime changes would violate the Act.
You can cite, as persuasive authority, unpublished opinions from the Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the assigned jurisdiction.