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The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition
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by Roger E. Meiners, Verified Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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➢ Chapter 1. Today’s Business Environment: Law and Ethics
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➢ Chapter 2. The Court Systems
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➢ Chapter 3. Trials and Resolving Disputes
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➢ Chapter 4. The Constitution: Focus on Application to Business
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➢ Chapter 5. Criminal Law and Business
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➢ Chapter 6. Elements of Torts
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➢ Chapter 7. Business Torts and Product Liability
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➢ Chapter 8. Real and Personal Property
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➢ Chapter 9. Intellectual Property
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➢ Chapter 10. Contracts
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➢ Chapter 11. Domestic and International Sales
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➢ Chapter 12. Business Organizations
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➢ Chapter 13. Negotiable Instruments, Credit, and Bankruptcy
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➢ Chapter 14. Agency and the Employment Relationship
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➢ Chapter 15. Employment and Labor Regulations
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➢ Chapter 16. Employment Discrimination
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➢ Chapter 17. The Regulatory Process
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➢ Chapter 18. Securities Regulation
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➢ Chapter 19. Consumer Protection
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➢ Chapter 20. Antitrust Law xc xc xc
➢ Chapter 21. Environmental Law xc xc xc
➢ Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of Business
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CHAPTER 1 xc
Table of Contents xc xc
Answer to Discussion Question .......................................................................................................................... 1
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Answers to Case Questions ................................................................................................................................. 1
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Answers to Ethics and Social Questions......................................................................................................... 3
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Answer to Discussion Question xc xc xc
Should the common law maxim “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” apply to an immigrant who
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speakslittle English and was not educated in the United States? How about for a tourist who does
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not speak English? Everyone knows criminal acts are prohibited, but what about subtler rules that
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differ 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
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constructive knowledge of the law. Yet, as well known as this rule is, it is surprising how
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often it is proffered as an excuse. (A Westlaw search cases finds hundreds of examples).
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Examples include: Deluco xc v. xcDezi xc(Conn. Super) (lack of knowledge regarding the state‘s usury
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laws is no excuse for the inclusion of an illegal interest rate in a sales contract); and Plumlee
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xcv. xcPaddock xc(ignorance of the fact that the subject matter of the contract was illegal was not xc xc xc xc xc xc xc xc xc xc xc xc xc xc
excuse). The courts have provided a small exception to the rule when it comes to people in
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lack of English language skills. Consider Flanery xcv. xcKuska, xc (defendant did not speak English
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was advised by a friend that an answer to a complaint was not required); Ramon xcv. xcDept. xcof
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xcTransportation, xc(no English and an inability to understand the law required for an excuse);
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Yurechko xcv. xcCounty xcof xcAllegheny, xc(Ignorance and with the fact that the municipality suffered
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no hardship in late lawsuit filing was an excuse).
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1. Facts from an English judge’s decision in 1884: “The crew of an English yacht .. 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
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of water and no supply of food. . . . That on the eighteenth day . . . they
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