Business Law Today - The Essentials Text &
Summarized Cases, Cengage, 13th edition,
Roger LeRoy Miller, Chapters 1 - 25, Complete
,CHAPTER 1: Legal and Constitutional Foundations of Business
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—Appendix to Chapter 1: Finding and Analyzing the Law
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CHAPTER 2: Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution
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CHAPTER 3: Ethics in Business
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—Appendix to Chapter 3: Code of Ethics Example
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CHAPTER 4: Tort Law
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CHAPTER 5: Intellectual Property Rights
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CHAPTER 6: Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy
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CHAPTER 7: Criminal Law and Cyber Crime
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CHAPTER 8: Agreement and Consideration in Contracts
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CHAPTER 9: Capacity, Legality, and Enforceability
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CHAPTER 10: Contract Performance, Breach, and Remedies
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CHAPTER 11: Sales and Lease Contracts
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CHAPTER 12: Performance and Breach in Sales and Lease Contracts
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CHAPTER 13: Negotiable Instruments
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CHAPTER 14: Banking
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CHAPTER 15: Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy
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CHAPTER 16: Agency Relationships in Business
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CHAPTER 17: Employment Law
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CHAPTER 18: The Entrepreneur’s Options
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,CHAPTER 19: Corporations
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CHAPTER 20: Investor Protection, Insider Trading, and Corporate Gover
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nance
CHAPTER 21: Antitrust Law and Promoting Competition
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CHAPTER 22: Consumer Law
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CHAPTER 23: Personal Property, Bailments, and Insurance
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CHAPTER 24: Real Property and Environmental Law
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CHAPTER 25: International and Space Law
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CriticalrThinkingrQuestionsrinrFeatures ......................................................................................................... 1
AdaptingrtherLawrtortherOnlinerEnvironment ........................................................................................... 1
CriticalrThinkingrQuestionsrinrCases .............................................................................................................. 2
Caser1.1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 2
Caser1.2 ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
Caser1.3 ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
ChapterrReview ............................................................................................................................................. 4
PracticerandrReview .................................................................................................................................. 4
PracticerandrReview:rDebaterThis ............................................................................................................. 5
IssuerSpotters ............................................................................................................................................ 5
BusinessrScenariosrandrCaserProblems ..................................................................................................... 5
CriticalrThinkingrandrWritingrAssignments .............................................................................................. 10
CriticalrThinkingrQuestionsrinrAppendixrExhibitr1A–3 ................................................................................. 11
Exhibitr1A–3 ............................................................................................................................................ 11
Critical Thinking Questions in Features
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AdaptingrtherLawrtortherOnlinerEnvironment
1. OnerobserverrhasrsaidrthatrtherAmericanrlegalrsystemrshouldrevaluatersocialrmediarcompaniesrbasedronr
howr―theyraffectrusrasrcitizens,rnotronlyr[onrhow]rtheyraffectrusrasrconsumers.‖rWhatrisryourropinionrofrth
isrstatement?
Solution
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hanrar―consumer.‖rPresumably,rarcitizenrisr mostlyrconcernedrwithrthergoodrofrsocietyrasrarwhole,randrthere
forerwouldrberopenrtortheridearofrgovernmentrregulationrthatrrestrictedrthernegativerinfluencerofrsocialrm
edia,rregardlessrofrtherFirstrAmendment.rArconsumer,rbyrcontrast,rwouldrberprimarilyrconcernedrwithrhav
ingrarmarketplacerthatroffersrtherwidestrpossiblervarietiesrofrfreedomr(ofrchoice,rofrspeech,retc.)randrwoul
drforrthatrreasonrberopposedrtorgovernmentrregulationrofrsocialrmedia.rThereris,rhowever,ranrargumentrt
orbermaderthatrthercitizensrthatrmakeruprarsocietyrbenefitrwhenrthermarketplacerofrideas—
whetherrtheyrarersubjectively
―positive‖rorr―negative‖—israllowedrtorflourishrinrtherabsencerofrgovernmentrregulation.
2. TimrCook,rApple‘srchiefroperatingrofficer,rhasrsuggestedrthatrtherUnitedrStatesrCongressrshouldrpassrarla
wrlimitingrtherabilityrofrApplerandrotherrtechrcountriesrtorkeeprconsumerrdatarprivate.rWhyrwouldrarbusi
nessrexecutivermakersuchrarrequest?