February 2025 MEE Questions - Answer Questions on Agency and Ordinance Liability

Sep 18, 2026

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February 2025 MEE Questions contains two fact-patterns for essay responses under the National Conference of Bar Examiners. The first scenario examines whether a personal trainer acted as an agent of a gym when purchasing a treadmill, focusing on actual and apparent authority and a business partner’s ability to bind the company to a contract for additional treadmills. The second scenario addresses the validity and application of a town ordinance regulating conduct on pedestrian median strips and evaluates the charged conduct against traffic-safety purposes.

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MEE Question 1

Agency and Authority for Purchases

Partnership Liability and Contract Binding

MEE Question 2

Town Ordinance on Pedestrian Median Strips

Traffic Safety and Enforcement

February 2025 MEE Questions These materials are copyrighted by NCBE and are being reprinted with permission of NCBE. For personal use only. May not be reproduced or distributed in any way. Copyright © 2025 by the National Conference of Bar Examiners. All rights reserved. MEE Question 1 Bill and Nancy recently opened a gym, "Comet Fitness," that they operate as a general partnership. Three blocks from the gym is a sporting-goods store that is having a "going-outof-business sale" with signs in the store's windows stating that "all sales are final." Bill and Nancy are acquainted with the store owner. Last week, Bill called the store owner and said, "I hope you’ve got some nice treadmills; the gym could use one or more. I'll try to get over thereto check them out." The next day, Bill and Nancy ran into Kim, one of Nancy's friends, at a party. Kim is a personal trainer. Nancy had not seen Kim for several months. Nancy told Kim that she and Bill had opened a gym and that Kim should consider coming to work for them as a personal trainer. Kim said that she would think about it and let Nancy know. While Kim was walking away, she heard Bill say to Nancy, "You know, the gym has only five treadmills, but I sure wish it had two more," and heard Nancy reply, "I agree. We desperately need to buy one or two more." The day after the party, Kim, thinking that she might be interested in the trainer job and hoping to impress Bill and Nancy with her initiative, went to the sporting-goods store. Telling the store owner that she was acting on behalf of Comet Fitness, Kim purchased a treadmilland directed the store owner to send the treadmill to Comet Fitness, along with the invoice for the purchase. The store owner agreed to do so. Later that day, Nancy went to the sporting-goods store and purchased two treadmills for the gym. Unlike the treadmill Kim had purchased, these treadmills had built-in video touchscreens and were similar to the ones that Nancy had previously purchased for Comet Fitness. Nancy told the store owner to have the treadmills delivered to Comet Fitness along with an invoice for the purchase. When Nancy returned to the gym, she told Bill that she had bought two treadmills for the business. Bill became furious and said, "You had no right to do that without first consulting me. You should have made sure that I was with you when you bought them to make sure I'd like what you were buying. I’ll return them tomorrow after they arrive unless I like what I see." The following day, three treadmills arrived at the gym. When Bill and Nancy saw the treadmill purchased by Kim, they told the delivery person, "Take that one back. There must be a mistake—we never bought this." When Bill saw the two treadmills Nancy had bought, he told the delivery person, "Take them back, too; they're nice but not the same color as our other treadmills, and they just won’t fit in." Nancy objected and told the delivery person to leave the two treadmills. The delivery person immediately called the store owner, who said, "Leave them all at the gym. All sales are final. Tell them to pay me what they owe me." 1. Was Kim an agent of Comet Fitness when she purchased the treadmill? Explain. 2. Assuming that Kim was an agent of Comet Fitness, (a) did she have actual authority to purchase the treadmill for Comet Fitness? Explain. (b) did she have apparent authority to purchase the treadmill for Comet Fitness? Explain. 3. Did Nancy have the authority to bind Comet Fitness to the contract to purchase the two treadmills with the video touchscreens? Explain. MEE Question 2 Town is a small municipality. Main Street is an eight-block public road that runs through the center of Town with retail shops, restaurants, and other businesses located on each side. The roadway has two lanes of traffic in each direction, separated by a 10-foot-wide median strip on each block. Each median strip is covered with grass and trees, except for paved 10-foot

FAQs

What is Kim’s legal role in MEE Question 1 when she buys the treadmill?

The question asks whether Kim acted as an agent of Comet Fitness when purchasing the treadmill, based on the facts about her communications and conduct.

In MEE Question 1, what authority must be analyzed regarding Kim’s purchase?

Both actual authority and apparent authority are required, including whether the business could reasonably rely on Kim’s power to buy the treadmill.

In MEE Question 2, what does the town ordinance prohibit on pedestrian median strips?

It prohibits any person on the pedestrian median strip from communicating or attempting to communicate with occupants of vehicles passing by or stopped near the strip.

Sep 18, 2026

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