Business Law Today - The Essentials Text
& Summarized Cases, Cengage, 13th
Edition,
By 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
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Governance
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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CriticalgThinkinggQuestionsgingFeatures.......................................................................................... 1
AdaptinggthegLawgtogthegOnlinegEnvironment............................................................................ 1
CriticalgThinkinggQuestionsgingCases ............................................................................................. 2
Caseg1.1 ................................................................................................................................... 2
Caseg1.2 ................................................................................................................................... 3
Caseg1.3 ................................................................................................................................... 3
ChaptergReview .......................................................................................................................... 4
PracticegandgReview ................................................................................................................ 4
PracticegandgReview:gDebategThis ............................................................................................. 5
IssuegSpotters ........................................................................................................................... 5
BusinessgScenariosgandgCasegProblems ....................................................................................... 5
CriticalgThinkinggandgWritinggAssignments ............................................................................... 10
CriticalgThinkinggQuestionsgingAppendixgExhibitg1A–3 ................................................................... 11
Exhibitg1A–3 ............................................................................................................................ 11
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opiniongofgthisgstatement?
Solution
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ernsgthangag―consumer.‖gPresumably,gagcitizengisg mostlygconcernedg withg theg goodgofgsociety gasgagwhol
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uencegofgsocialgmedia,gregardlessgofgthegFirstgAmendment.gAgconsumer,gbygcontrast,gwouldgbegprima
rilygconcernedgwithghavinggagmarketplacegthatgoffersgthegwidestgpossiblegvarietiesgofgfreedomg(ofgch
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ia.gTheregis,ghowever,gangargumentgtogbegmadegthatgthegcitizensgthatgmakegupgagsocietygbenefitgwhen
gthegmarketplacegofgideas—whethergtheygaregsubjectively
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sgaglawglimitinggthegabilitygofgApplegandgothergtechgcountriesgtogkeepgconsumergdatagprivate.gWhyg
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