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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 d d d
➢ Chapter 21. Environmental Law d d d
➢ Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of Business d d d d d d d
CHAPTER 1 d
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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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Should the common law maxim “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” apply to an immigrant who speakslittle English
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and was not educated in the United States? How about for a tourist who does not speak English? Everyone
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knows criminal acts are prohibited, but what about subtler rules that differ across countries and so may be
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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 constructive
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knowledge of the law. Yet, as well known as this rule is, it is surprising how often it is proffered as an excuse.
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(A Westlaw search cases finds hundreds of examples). Examples include: Deluco v. Dezi (Conn. Super) (lack
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of knowledge regarding the state‘s usury laws is no excuse for the inclusion of an illegal interest rate in a
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sales contract); and Plumlee v. Paddock (ignorance of thefact that the subject matter of the contract was
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illegal was not excuse). The courts have provided a small exception to the rule when it comes to people in
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lack of English language skills. Consider Flanery v. Kuska, (defendant did not speak English was advised by
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a friend that an answer to a complaint was not required); Ramon v. Dept. of Transportation, (no English and
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an inability to understand the law required for an excuse); Yurechko v. County of Allegheny, (Ignorance and
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with the fact that the 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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the boat was picked up by a passing vessel, and [they] were rescued. . . . and committed for trial. . . .
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SOLUTIONMANUAL d
TheLegalEnvironmentofBusiness,14thEdition
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byRogerE.Meiners,VerifiedChapters1-22,Complete
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TheLegalEnvironmentofBusiness,14thEdition
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TheLegalEnvironmentofBusiness,14thEdition
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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 d d d
➢ Chapter 21. Environmental Law d d d
➢ Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of Business d d d d d d d
CHAPTER 1 d
Tableof Contents d d
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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AnswertoDiscussionQuestion d d d
Should the common law maxim “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” apply to an immigrant who speakslittle English
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and was not educated in the United States? How about for a tourist who does not speak English? Everyone
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knows criminal acts are prohibited, but what about subtler rules that differ across countries and so may be
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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 constructive
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knowledge of the law. Yet, as well known as this rule is, it is surprising how often it is proffered as an excuse.
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(A Westlaw search cases finds hundreds of examples). Examples include: Deluco v. Dezi (Conn. Super) (lack
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of knowledge regarding the state‘s usury laws is no excuse for the inclusion of an illegal interest rate in a
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sales contract); and Plumlee v. Paddock (ignorance of thefact that the subject matter of the contract was
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illegal was not excuse). The courts have provided a small exception to the rule when it comes to people in
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lack of English language skills. Consider Flanery v. Kuska, (defendant did not speak English was advised by
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a friend that an answer to a complaint was not required); Ramon v. Dept. of Transportation, (no English and
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an inability to understand the law required for an excuse); Yurechko v. County of Allegheny, (Ignorance and
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with the fact that the 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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the boat was picked up by a passing vessel, and [they] were rescued. . . . and committed for trial. . . .
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