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TABLEOFCONTENTS
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 Chapter 1. Today’s Business Environment: Law and Ethics

 Chapter 2. The Court Systems

 Chapter 3. Trials and Resolving Disputes

 Chapter 4. The Constitution: Focus on Application to Business

 Chapter 5. Criminal Law and Business

 Chapter 6. Elements of Torts

 Chapter 7. Business Torts and Product Liability

 Chapter 8. Real and Personal Property

 Chapter 9. Intellectual Property

 Chapter 10. Contracts

 Chapter 11. Domestic and International Sales

 Chapter 12. Business Organizations

 Chapter 13. Negotiable Instruments, Credit, and Bankruptcy

 Chapter 14. Agency and the Employment Relationship

 Chapter 15. Employment and Labor Regulations

 Chapter 16. Employment Discrimination

 Chapter 17. The Regulatory Process

 Chapter 18. Securities Regulation

 Chapter 19. Consumer Protection


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 Chapter 20. Antitrust Law

 Chapter 21. Environmental Law

 Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of Business




CHAPTER 1 B




Table of Contents B B




Answer to Discussion Question........................................................................................................................ 1
Answers to Case Questions ............................................................................................................................... 1
Answers to Ethics and Social Questions ................................................................................................. 3




Answer to Discussion Question B B B




Should the common law maxim “Ignorance of the law is
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Bimmigrant who speaks little English and was not educated B in the United States?
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Bacts are prohibited, but what about subtler rules that
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B and so may be misunderstood by foreigners?
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Answer: It is generally true that ignorance of the law is no excuse. Citizens are
deemed to have constructive knowledge of the law. Yet, as well known as
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this
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excuse. (A Westlaw search cases finds hundreds of examples). Examples
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include: Deluco v. Dezi (Conn. Super) (lack of knowledge regarding the
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state‘s usury laws is no excuse for
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B inclusion of an illegal interest B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B




rate in a
B sales B contract);
B and Plumlee v. Paddock (ignorance of the fact
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that the subject matter of the contract
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The
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comes to people in lack
B of English language skills. Consider Flanery v.
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Kuska, (defendant did not speak English was advised by a friend that an
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Banswer to
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Dept. of Transportation, (no English and an inability to understand the law
required for an excuse); Yurechko v. County of Allegheny, (Ignorance and with
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the fact that the municipality suffered no hardship in late lawsuit filing was
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an excuse).
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Answers to Case Questions B B B




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