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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;hChapterh01:hLegalhandhConstitutionalhFoundationshofhBusiness
Table of Contents
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CriticalhThinkinghQuestionshinhFeatures ........................................................................................................ 1
AdaptinghthehLawhtohthehOnlinehEnvironment .......................................................................................... 1
CriticalhThinkinghQuestionshinhCases ............................................................................................................. 2
Caseh1.1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 2
Caseh1.2 ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
Caseh1.3 ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
ChapterhReview ............................................................................................................................................. 4
PracticehandhReview .................................................................................................................................. 4
PracticehandhReview:hDebatehThis............................................................................................................. 5
IssuehSpotters ............................................................................................................................................ 5
BusinesshScenarioshandhCasehProblems .................................................................................................... 5
CriticalhThinkinghandhWritinghAssignments ............................................................................................. 10
CriticalhThinkinghQuestionshinhAppendixhExhibith1A–3 ................................................................................ 11
Exhibith1A–3 ............................................................................................................................................ 11
Critical Thinking Questions in Features
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AdaptinghthehLawhtohthehOnlinehEnvironment
1. OnehobserverhhashsaidhthaththehAmericanhlegalhsystemhshouldhevaluatehsocialhmediahcompanieshbasedho
nhhowh―theyhaffecthushashcitizens,hnothonlyh[onhhow]htheyhaffecthushashconsumers.‖hWhathishyourhopinionh
ofhthishstatement?
Solution
Thehpersonhwhohmadehthishstatementhclearlyhseeshah―citizen‖hashhavinghdifferenthmotivationshandhconcern
shthanhah―consumer.‖hPresumably,hahcitizenhish mostlyhconcernedhwithhthehgoodhofhsocietyhashahwhole,handh
thereforehwouldhbehopenhtohthehideahofhgovernmenthregulationhthathrestrictedhthehnegativehinfluencehofhs
ocialhmedia,hregardlesshofhthehFirsthAmendment.hAhconsumer,hbyhcontrast,hwouldhbehprimarilyhconcerned
hwithhhavinghahmarketplacehthathoffershthehwidesthpossiblehvarietieshofhfreedomh(ofhchoice,hofhspeech,hetc
.)handhwouldhforhthathreasonhbehopposedhtohgovernmenthregulationhofhsocialhmedia.hTherehis,hhowever,ha
nhargumenthtohbehmadehthaththehcitizenshthathmakehuphahsocietyhbenefithwhenhthehmarketplacehofhideas
—whetherhtheyharehsubjectively
―positive‖horh―negative‖—ish allowedhtohflourishhinhthehabsencehofhgovernmenthregulation.
2. TimhCook,hApple‘shchiefhoperatinghofficer,hhashsuggestedhthaththehUnitedhStateshCongresshshouldhpasshahl
awhlimitinghthehabilityhofhApplehandhotherhtechhcountrieshtohkeephconsumerhdatahprivate.hWhyhwouldhah
businesshexecutivehmakehsuchhahrequest?