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SOLUTION MANUAL
The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition
by Roger E. Meiners, Verified Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Today’s Business Environment: Law and Ethics
Chapter 2. The Court Systems
Chapter 3. Trials and Resolving Disputes
Chapter 4. The Constitution: Focus on Application to Business
Chapter 5. Criminal Law and Business
Chapter 6. Elements of Torts
Chapter 7. Business Torts and Product Liability
Chapter 8. Real and Personal Property
Chapter 9. Intellectual Property
Chapter 10. Contracts
Chapter 11. Domestic and International Sales
Chapter 12. Business Organizations
Chapter 13. Negotiable Instruments, Credit, and Bankruptcy
Chapter 14. Agency and the Employment Relationship
Chapter 15. Employment and Labor Regulations
Chapter 16. Employment Discrimination
Chapter 17. The Regulatory Process
Chapter 18. Securities Regulation
Chapter 19. Consumer Protection
Chapter 20. Antitrust Law
Chapter 21. Environmental Law
Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of Business
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CHAPTER 1
Table of Contents
Answer to Discussion Question............................................................................... 1
Answers to Case Questions...................................................................................... 1
Answers to Ethics and Social Questions.................................................................3
Answer to Discussion Question
Should the common law maxim “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” apply to
an immigrant who speakslittle English and was not educated in the United
States? How about for a tourist who does not speak English? Everyone knows
criminal acts are prohibited, but what about subtler rules that differ across
countries and so may be misunderstood by foreigners?
Answer : It is generally true that ignorance of the law is no excuse. Citizens
are deemed to have constructive knowledge of the law. Yet, as well known
as this rule is, it is surprising how often it is proffered as an excuse. (A
Westlaw search cases finds hundreds of examples). Examples include:
Deluco v. Dezi (Conn. Super) (lack of knowledge regarding the state‘s
usury laws is no excuse for the inclusion of an illegal interest rate in a
sales contract); and Plumlee v. Paddock (ignorance of thefact that the
subject matter of the contract was illegal was not excuse). The courts have
provided a small exception to the rule when it comes to people in lack of
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English language skills. Consider Flanery v. Kuska, (defendant did not
speak English was advised by a friend that an answer to a complaint was
not required); Ramon v. Dept. of Transportation, (no English and an
inability to understand the law required for an excuse); Yurechko v.
County of Allegheny, (Ignorance and with the fact that the municipality
suffered no hardship in late lawsuit filing was an excuse).
Answers to Case Questions
1. Facts from an English judge’s decision in 1884: “The crew of an English
yacht............................................................................................... were cast away
in
a storm on the high seas . . . and were compelled to put into an open boat.
.................................................................................................... They had no
supply
of water and no supply of food. . . . That on the eighteenth day . . . they
................................................................................................suggested that one
should be sacrificed to save the rest. . . . That next day . . . they . . . went to
the boy................................................................................................... put a knife
into his throat and killed him . . . the three men fed upon the body of the
boy for four days; [then]
the boat was picked up by a passing vessel, and [they] were rescued. . . . and
committed for trial. . . .
if the men had not fed upon the body of the boy they would probably
not have survived to be sopicked up and rescued, but would have
died of famine. The boy, being in a much weaker
condition, was likely to have died before them The real question in this
The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition
SOLUTION MANUAL
The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition
by Roger E. Meiners, Verified Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition
, =
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Today’s Business Environment: Law and Ethics
Chapter 2. The Court Systems
Chapter 3. Trials and Resolving Disputes
Chapter 4. The Constitution: Focus on Application to Business
Chapter 5. Criminal Law and Business
Chapter 6. Elements of Torts
Chapter 7. Business Torts and Product Liability
Chapter 8. Real and Personal Property
Chapter 9. Intellectual Property
Chapter 10. Contracts
Chapter 11. Domestic and International Sales
Chapter 12. Business Organizations
Chapter 13. Negotiable Instruments, Credit, and Bankruptcy
Chapter 14. Agency and the Employment Relationship
Chapter 15. Employment and Labor Regulations
Chapter 16. Employment Discrimination
Chapter 17. The Regulatory Process
Chapter 18. Securities Regulation
Chapter 19. Consumer Protection
Chapter 20. Antitrust Law
Chapter 21. Environmental Law
Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of Business
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CHAPTER 1
Table of Contents
Answer to Discussion Question............................................................................... 1
Answers to Case Questions...................................................................................... 1
Answers to Ethics and Social Questions.................................................................3
Answer to Discussion Question
Should the common law maxim “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” apply to
an immigrant who speakslittle English and was not educated in the United
States? How about for a tourist who does not speak English? Everyone knows
criminal acts are prohibited, but what about subtler rules that differ across
countries and so may be misunderstood by foreigners?
Answer : It is generally true that ignorance of the law is no excuse. Citizens
are deemed to have constructive knowledge of the law. Yet, as well known
as this rule is, it is surprising how often it is proffered as an excuse. (A
Westlaw search cases finds hundreds of examples). Examples include:
Deluco v. Dezi (Conn. Super) (lack of knowledge regarding the state‘s
usury laws is no excuse for the inclusion of an illegal interest rate in a
sales contract); and Plumlee v. Paddock (ignorance of thefact that the
subject matter of the contract was illegal was not excuse). The courts have
provided a small exception to the rule when it comes to people in lack of
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English language skills. Consider Flanery v. Kuska, (defendant did not
speak English was advised by a friend that an answer to a complaint was
not required); Ramon v. Dept. of Transportation, (no English and an
inability to understand the law required for an excuse); Yurechko v.
County of Allegheny, (Ignorance and with the fact that the municipality
suffered no hardship in late lawsuit filing was an excuse).
Answers to Case Questions
1. Facts from an English judge’s decision in 1884: “The crew of an English
yacht............................................................................................... were cast away
in
a storm on the high seas . . . and were compelled to put into an open boat.
.................................................................................................... They had no
supply
of water and no supply of food. . . . That on the eighteenth day . . . they
................................................................................................suggested that one
should be sacrificed to save the rest. . . . That next day . . . they . . . went to
the boy................................................................................................... put a knife
into his throat and killed him . . . the three men fed upon the body of the
boy for four days; [then]
the boat was picked up by a passing vessel, and [they] were rescued. . . . and
committed for trial. . . .
if the men had not fed upon the body of the boy they would probably
not have survived to be sopicked up and rescued, but would have
died of famine. The boy, being in a much weaker
condition, was likely to have died before them The real question in this
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