BUSA 2106 EXAM #1: Legal and Ethical
Environment of Business Q&A 100%
Pass
Plaintiff - ✔✔files the lawsuit
Defendant - ✔✔criminal and/or civil offensor
Proximate Cause - ✔✔- foreseeable to the defendant
- not a superseding cause to break the chain of causation
3 Statues of law - ✔✔Cases, Statues, Admin. Regulations
Administrative Regulations - ✔✔- Executive branch oversees agencies,
they pass these regulation to interpret code/law.
Elements of Negligence - ✔✔1- Does the defendant owe a duty to
defendant?
2- Did defendant "breach" that duty?...
3- By "proximately causing"...
4- Damages
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, Preemption Doctorine - ✔✔-If there is conflict between federal and state
statue, federal will prevail.
Trial Court - ✔✔- Where you file a complaint
- ALL criminal and civil cases start here
-State, Mag., Superior State
1st App. Level - ✔✔Right to Appeal
2nd App. Level - ✔✔Certiorari
Certiorari - ✔✔- Request to the highest court to take your case.
GA Magistrate - ✔✔- for matters UP to $15,000
GA State/ Superior courts - ✔✔- for matters OVER $15,000
Concurrent Jurisdiction - ✔✔-jurisdiction shared by 2 or more courts
-can be both federal and state
Exclusive Jurisdiction - ✔✔- Sole jurisdiction of a federal court to hear and
decide cases involving specified subject matters
Cases that MUST go to Superior Court.. - ✔✔-felonies, equity cases,
divorce, title to land
Equity Cases - ✔✔-Cases dealing with fairness -cannot request a jury, only
a judge can deal with it.
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Environment of Business Q&A 100%
Pass
Plaintiff - ✔✔files the lawsuit
Defendant - ✔✔criminal and/or civil offensor
Proximate Cause - ✔✔- foreseeable to the defendant
- not a superseding cause to break the chain of causation
3 Statues of law - ✔✔Cases, Statues, Admin. Regulations
Administrative Regulations - ✔✔- Executive branch oversees agencies,
they pass these regulation to interpret code/law.
Elements of Negligence - ✔✔1- Does the defendant owe a duty to
defendant?
2- Did defendant "breach" that duty?...
3- By "proximately causing"...
4- Damages
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, Preemption Doctorine - ✔✔-If there is conflict between federal and state
statue, federal will prevail.
Trial Court - ✔✔- Where you file a complaint
- ALL criminal and civil cases start here
-State, Mag., Superior State
1st App. Level - ✔✔Right to Appeal
2nd App. Level - ✔✔Certiorari
Certiorari - ✔✔- Request to the highest court to take your case.
GA Magistrate - ✔✔- for matters UP to $15,000
GA State/ Superior courts - ✔✔- for matters OVER $15,000
Concurrent Jurisdiction - ✔✔-jurisdiction shared by 2 or more courts
-can be both federal and state
Exclusive Jurisdiction - ✔✔- Sole jurisdiction of a federal court to hear and
decide cases involving specified subject matters
Cases that MUST go to Superior Court.. - ✔✔-felonies, equity cases,
divorce, title to land
Equity Cases - ✔✔-Cases dealing with fairness -cannot request a jury, only
a judge can deal with it.
2
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
