#10-Apple Valley: Pierce/Wilsonoff/Forrester-Miller vs The Hood of Apple Valley
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Case opened October 16, 2006. Case closed October 31, 2006.

Judges were split between alt 1 & 3, but because a total of 63% voted for a fine, the court house concludes the case with alt 1.

Alt 1: 36%
Fine of $75.000, business must follow Business Standards from now on.

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Introduction:
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The apt-named "Fun House" owned and operated by Lake Forrester-Miller, Adrienne Pierce and Storm Wilsonoff has been operating 24 hours each simday non-stop. The standard business operating procedures states that a business must not be operated more than 8 hours a simday and must be closed for at least two simdays to allow of rest for employees. Also businesses must close for any reasonable request of the Hood Council including holidays, quarintines, etc.

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Testimonies:
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Lake Forrester-Miller
"The standard business procedures only state that employees must work in shifts of no more than eight hours. Since the business is a home based business, we have no employees, in fact sims visit while we sleep and while we attend our outside jobs. The most work we do is order chinese food or pizza when customers are hungry and interact with them. I think the hood council is jealous about all the money we're making! In fact this last simday we profited over $10.000! It is common knowledge that we're worth over $200.000 and we don't have any hiers to pass these values on to except each other."

Adrienne Pierce
"I think the hood council is jealous and money hungry. They're not able to tax us due to our downtown location and now they want to get thier hands on our money. Customers are free to enter and exit freely anytime of the simday/night and we live here-all we do is charge a small fee of $53/hour for sims to visit our home and use the facilities-like bowling, we now have a deluxe bowling lane and the hot tub has been repaired."

Storm Wilsonoff
"Huh? Business standards? We ain't running no business, this is pure pleasure baby!"

Hood Council
"This home-based business is blantly breaking the standards of fair business operation. It doesn't matter that the owners of the business are not employees and perform no tasks, the business is still operating at all times of the day and night. This business has been the source of breeding grounds of various air-bourne illnesses and refuses to close the business two days a simweek to stop the spread of disease. Any money they make is done from an unfair business pratice and makes unfair competition to other law abiding businesses"

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Solutions:
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Alt 1: 36%
Fine of $75.000, business must follow Business Standards from now on.

Alt 2: 27%
Fine of $50.000 and business closed for one simweek, business must follow Business Standards from now on.

Alt 3: 36%
No fine, business must follow Business Standards from now on.