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