Business Law Today - The Essentials Text &
Summarized Cases, Cengage, 13th edition,
Roger LeRoy Miller, Chapters 1 - 25, Complete
,CHAPTER 1: Legal and Constitutional Foundations of Business
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—Appendix to Chapter 1: Finding and Analyzing the Law
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CHAPTER 2: Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution
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CHAPTER 3: Ethics in Business
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—Appendix to Chapter 3: Code of Ethics Example
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CHAPTER 4: Tort Law
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CHAPTER 5: Intellectual Property Rights
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CHAPTER 6: Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy
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CHAPTER 7: Criminal Law and Cyber Crime
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CHAPTER 8: Agreement and Consideration in Contracts
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CHAPTER 9: Capacity, Legality, and Enforceability
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CHAPTER 10: Contract Performance, Breach, and Remedies
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CHAPTER 11: Sales and Lease Contracts
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CHAPTER 12: Performance and Breach in Sales and Lease Contracts
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CHAPTER 13: Negotiable Instruments
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CHAPTER 14: Banking
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CHAPTER 15: Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy
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CHAPTER 16: Agency Relationships in Business
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CHAPTER 17: Employment Law
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CHAPTER 18: The Entrepreneur’s Options
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,CHAPTER 19: Corporations
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CHAPTER 20: Investor Protection, Insider Trading, and Corporate Gover
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nance
CHAPTER 21: Antitrust Law and Promoting Competition
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CHAPTER 22: Consumer Law
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CHAPTER 23: Personal Property, Bailments, and Insurance
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CHAPTER 24: Real Property and Environmental Law
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CHAPTER 25: International and Space Law
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Chapterc01:cLegalcandcConstitutionalcFoundationscofcBusiness
Table of Contents
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CriticalcThinkingcQuestionscincFeatures ......................................................................................................... 1
AdaptingcthecLawctocthecOnlinecEnvironment ........................................................................................... 1
CriticalcThinkingcQuestionscincCases .............................................................................................................. 2
Casec1.1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 2
Casec1.2 ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
Casec1.3 ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
ChaptercReview ............................................................................................................................................. 4
PracticecandcReview .................................................................................................................................. 4
PracticecandcReview:cDebatecThis ............................................................................................................. 5
IssuecSpotters ............................................................................................................................................ 5
BusinesscScenarioscandcCasecProblems ..................................................................................................... 5
CriticalcThinkingcandcWritingcAssignments .............................................................................................. 10
CriticalcThinkingcQuestionscincAppendixcExhibitc1A–3 ................................................................................. 11
Exhibitc1A–3 ............................................................................................................................................ 11
Critical Thinking Questions in Features
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AdaptingcthecLawctocthecOnlinecEnvironment
1. OnecobserverchascsaidcthatcthecAmericanclegalcsystemcshouldcevaluatecsocialcmediaccompaniescbasedconc
howc―theycaffectcuscasccitizens,cnotconlyc[onchow]ctheycaffectcuscascconsumers.‖cWhatciscyourcopinioncofct
hiscstatement?
Solution
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hancac―consumer.‖cPresumably,caccitizencisc mostlycconcernedcwithcthecgoodcofcsocietycascacwhole,candcther
eforecwouldcbecopenctocthecideacofcgovernmentcregulationcthatcrestrictedcthecnegativecinfluencecofcsocialc
media,cregardlesscofcthecFirstcAmendment.cAcconsumer,cbyccontrast,cwouldcbecprimarilycconcernedcwithch
avingcacmarketplacecthatcofferscthecwidestcpossiblecvarietiescofcfreedomc(ofcchoice,cofcspeech,cetc.)candcw
ouldcforcthatcreasoncbecopposedctocgovernmentcregulationcofcsocialcmedia.cTherecis,chowever,cancargumen
tctocbecmadecthatctheccitizenscthatcmakecupcacsocietycbenefitcwhencthecmarketplacecofcideas—
whetherctheycarecsubjectively
―positive‖corc―negative‖—iscallowedctocflourishcincthecabsencecofcgovernmentcregulation.
2. TimcCook,cApple‘scchiefcoperatingcofficer,chascsuggestedcthatcthecUnitedcStatescCongresscshouldcpasscacla
wclimitingcthecabilitycofcApplecandcotherctechccountriesctockeepcconsumercdatacprivate.cWhycwouldcacbusi
nesscexecutivecmakecsuchcacrequest?