SOLUTION MANUAL The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition by Roger E. Meiners, Verified Chapters 1 - 22, Complete

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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




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




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Should the common law maxim “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” apply to an
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immigrant who speaks little English and was not educated in the United States?
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How about for a tourist who does not speak English? Everyone knows
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b criminal acts are prohibited, but what about subtler rules that differ
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b across countries 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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excuse.
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include:
b h Deluco v. Dezi (Conn. Super) (lack of knowledge regarding the b h b h b h b h bh b h b h b h b h b h b h b h b h b h b h b h b h b h b h




state‘s
b h usury b laws
h is no excuse for the inclusion of an
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interest
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(ignorance
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illegal
b h was not excuse). The courts have b provided
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exception
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bEnglish h language skills.
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speak
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complaint
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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
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was an excuse).
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1. Facts from an English judge’s decision in 1884: “The crew of an English yacht
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were cast away in
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a storm on the high seas . . . and were compelled to put into an open
boat...................................................................................................................................................They had no
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supply
of water and no supply of food. . . . That on the eighteenth day . . . they
.........................................................................................................................................................suggested that one
should be sacrificed to save the rest. . . . That next day . . . they . . .
went to the boy ................................................................................................................................... put a knife
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into his throat and killed him . . . the three men fed upon the body of
the boy for four days; [then]
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the boat was picked up by a passing vessel, and [they] were rescued. . . .
and committed for trial. . . .
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if the b h men had not b fed
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b rescued, but would
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condition, was likely to have died before themThe real question in this case [is] b
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whether killing
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under the conditions set forth be or be not murder.” Do you consider the b h




acts to be immoral?
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[Regina v. Dudley and Stephens, 14 Queens Bench Division 273 (1884)]
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binformal
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b the hextent to which
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to be imposed when a crime is committed in odd circumstances. Here there b
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was an intentional murder. Does the motive for the murder, the effort to
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save several lives by sacrificing one
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