Monica travels from her office in boston to lisbon, portugal, on business. her absence of 13 days was spent as follows: thursday depart for and arrive at lisbon friday business transacted saturday and sunday vacationing monday through friday business transacted saturday and sunday vacationing monday business transacted tuesday depart lisbon and return to office in boston for tax purposes, how many days has monica spent on business? what difference does it make? could monica have spent more time than she did vacationing on the trip without loss of existing tax benefits? explain.

Kendra knight took part in a friendly game of touch football. she had played before and was familiar with football. michael jewett was on her team. in the course of play, michael bumped into kendra and knocked her to the ground. he stepped on her hand, causing injury to a little finger that later required its amputation. she sued michael for damages. he defended on the ground that she had assumed the risk. kendra claimed that assumption of risk could not be raised as a defense because the state legislature had adopted the standard of comparative negligence. what happens if contributory negligence applies? what happens if the defense of comparative negligence applies?