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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
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The Legal Environment of Business, 14th
Edition
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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
The Legal Environment of Business, 14th
Edition
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Chapter 20. Antitrust Law
Chapter 21. Environmental Law
Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of
Business
CHAPTER 1
Table of Contents
Answer to Discussion Question
.................................................................................................................................1
Answers to Case
Questions...........................................................................................................................
..............1
A n s w e r s 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 speaks little 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 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 The Legal
day . . .Environment of Business,that
they.........suggested 14th one should be sacrificed to
save the rest. . . . That next
Edition 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]
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
, =
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
The Legal Environment of Business, 14th
Edition
, =
Chapter 20. Antitrust Law
Chapter 21. Environmental Law
Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of
Business
CHAPTER 1
Table of Contents
Answer to Discussion Question
.................................................................................................................................1
Answers to Case
Questions...........................................................................................................................
..............1
A n s w e r s 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 speaks little 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 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 The Legal
day . . .Environment of Business,that
they.........suggested 14th one should be sacrificed to
save the rest. . . . That next
Edition 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]
