SOLUTION & ANSWER GUIDE Business Law Today - The Essentials Text & Summarized Cases, Cengage, 13th edition, Roger LeRoy Miller, Chapters 1 - 25, Complete

SOLUTION & ANSWER GUIDE
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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6;yChaptery01:yLegalyandyConstitutionalyFoundationsyofyBusiness

Table of Contents
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CriticalyThinkingyQuestionsyinyFeatures ........................................................................................................ 1
AdaptingytheyLawytoytheyOnlineyEnvironment .......................................................................................... 1
CriticalyThinkingyQuestionsyinyCases ............................................................................................................. 2
Casey1.1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 2
Casey1.2 ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
Casey1.3 ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
ChapteryReview ............................................................................................................................................. 4
PracticeyandyReview .................................................................................................................................. 4
PracticeyandyReview:yDebateyThis ............................................................................................................ 5
IssueySpotters ............................................................................................................................................ 5
BusinessyScenariosyandyCaseyProblems .................................................................................................... 5
CriticalyThinkingyandyWritingyAssignments ............................................................................................. 10
CriticalyThinkingyQuestionsyinyAppendixyExhibity1A–3 ................................................................................ 11
Exhibity1A–3 ............................................................................................................................................ 11



Critical Thinking Questions in Features
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onyhowy―theyyaffectyusyasycitizens,ynotyonlyy[onyhow]ytheyyaffectyusyasyconsumers.‖yWhatyisyyouryopinio
nyofythisystatement?

Solution
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sythanyay―consumer.‖yPresumably,yaycitizenyisy mostlyyconcernedywithytheygoodyofysocietyyasyaywhole,yandy
thereforeywouldybeyopenytoytheyideayofygovernmentyregulationythatyrestrictedytheynegativeyinfluenceyofys
ocialymedia,yregardlessyofytheyFirstyAmendment.yAyconsumer,ybyycontrast,ywouldybeyprimarilyyconcerned
ywithyhavingyaymarketplaceythatyoffersytheywidestypossibleyvarietiesyofyfreedomy(ofychoice,yofyspeech,yet

c.)yandywouldyforythatyreasonybeyopposedytoygovernmentyregulationyofysocialymedia.yThereyis,yhowever,y
anyargumentytoybeymadeythatytheycitizensythatymakeyupyaysocietyybenefitywhenytheymarketplaceyofyideas
—whetherytheyyareysubjectively
―positive‖yory―negative‖—isyallowedytoyflourishyinytheyabsenceyofygovernmentyregulation.

2. TimyCook,yApple‘sychiefyoperatingyofficer,yhasysuggestedythatytheyUnitedyStatesyCongressyshouldypassyayl
awylimitingytheyabilityyofyAppleyandyotherytechycountriesytoykeepyconsumerydatayprivate.yWhyywouldyay
businessyexecutiveymakeysuchyayrequest?