BUSA 2106 EXAM 1 LEGAL AND ETHICAL ENVIRONMENT OF
BUSINESS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Plaintiff - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅files the lawsuit
Defendant - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅criminal and/or civil offensor
Proximate Cause - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- foreseeable to the defendant
- not a superseding cause to break the chain of causation
3 Statues of law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Cases, Statues, Admin. Regulations
Administrative Regulations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Executive branch oversees agencies, they pass
these regulation to interpret code/law.
Elements of Negligence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1- Does the defendant owe a duty to defendant?
2- Did defendant "breach" that duty?...
3- By "proximately causing"...
4- Damages
Preemption Doctorine - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-If there is conflict between federal and state statue,
federal will prevail.
Trial Court - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Where you file a complaint
- ALL criminal and civil cases start here
-State, Mag., Superior State
1st App. Level - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Right to Appeal
, 2nd App. Level - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Certiorari
Certiorari - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Request to the highest court to take your case.
GA Magistrate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- for matters UP to $15,000
GA State/ Superior courts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- for matters OVER $15,000
Concurrent Jurisdiction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-jurisdiction shared by 2 or more courts
-can be both federal and state
Exclusive Jurisdiction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Sole jurisdiction of a federal court to hear and decide
cases involving specified subject matters
Cases that MUST go to Superior Court.. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-felonies, equity cases, divorce, title to
land
Equity Cases - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Cases dealing with fairness -cannot request a jury, only a judge
can deal with it.
Declaratory Action - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- asking the judge to interpret a contract.
- happened after 9/11, when insurance companies needed to interpret whether it was a single or double
event
Specific Performance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-asking someone to stop doing something under a
contract
Injunction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- asking a judge to stop something bad.
- i.e. trying to stop a landowner from cutting down trees/other on your property line.
BUSINESS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Plaintiff - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅files the lawsuit
Defendant - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅criminal and/or civil offensor
Proximate Cause - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- foreseeable to the defendant
- not a superseding cause to break the chain of causation
3 Statues of law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Cases, Statues, Admin. Regulations
Administrative Regulations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Executive branch oversees agencies, they pass
these regulation to interpret code/law.
Elements of Negligence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1- Does the defendant owe a duty to defendant?
2- Did defendant "breach" that duty?...
3- By "proximately causing"...
4- Damages
Preemption Doctorine - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-If there is conflict between federal and state statue,
federal will prevail.
Trial Court - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Where you file a complaint
- ALL criminal and civil cases start here
-State, Mag., Superior State
1st App. Level - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Right to Appeal
, 2nd App. Level - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Certiorari
Certiorari - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Request to the highest court to take your case.
GA Magistrate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- for matters UP to $15,000
GA State/ Superior courts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- for matters OVER $15,000
Concurrent Jurisdiction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-jurisdiction shared by 2 or more courts
-can be both federal and state
Exclusive Jurisdiction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Sole jurisdiction of a federal court to hear and decide
cases involving specified subject matters
Cases that MUST go to Superior Court.. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-felonies, equity cases, divorce, title to
land
Equity Cases - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Cases dealing with fairness -cannot request a jury, only a judge
can deal with it.
Declaratory Action - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- asking the judge to interpret a contract.
- happened after 9/11, when insurance companies needed to interpret whether it was a single or double
event
Specific Performance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-asking someone to stop doing something under a
contract
Injunction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- asking a judge to stop something bad.
- i.e. trying to stop a landowner from cutting down trees/other on your property line.
