Aol, llc, mistakenly made public the personal information of 650,000 of its members. the members filed a suit, alleging violations of california law. aol asked the court to dismiss the suit on the basis of a "forum-selection" clause in its member agreement that designates virginia courts as the place where member disputes will be tried. under a decision of the united states supreme court, a forum-selection clause is unenforceable "if enforcement would contravene a strong public policy of the forum in which suit is brought." california has declared in other cases that the aol clause contravenes a strong public policy. if the court applies the doctrine of stare decisis, will it dismiss the suit? explain.

The sec has historically raised questions regarding the independence of firms that derive a significant portion of their total revenues from one audit client or group of clients because the sec staff believes this situation causes cpa firms to

True or false: a fitted model with more predictors will necessarily have a lower training set error than a model with fewer predictors.

Horace society is planning its annual western fair raceway gala. the gala committee has assembled the following expected costs for the event: dinner (per person) $10 gaming token and program (per person) $2 prize payouts $4,300 tickets and advertising $800 private box suite rental $1,700 lottery licenses $200 the committee members would like to charge $40 per person for the evening’s activities. required: 1. what is the break-even point for the dinner-dance (in terms of the number of persons who must attend)? 2. assume that last year only 200 persons attended the dinner-dance. if the same number attend this year, what price per ticket must be charged in order to break even? 3. refer to the original data ($40 ticket price per person). prepare a cvp graph for the dinner- dance from zero tickets up to 600 tickets sold.