Solution Manual For The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition by Roger E. Meiners, Verified Chapters 1 - 22 Complete, Newest Version

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TABLE OF CONTENTS VR VR VR




 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 DiscriminationVR VR VR




 Chapter 17. The Regulatory Process VR VR VR VR




 Chapter 18. Securities Regulation VR VR VR




 Chapter 19. Consumer Protection VR VR VR




 Chapter 20. Antitrust Law VR VR VR




 Chapter 21. Environmental Law VR VR VR




 Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of Business
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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 VR VR VR




Should the common law maxim “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” apply to an immigrant who spea
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kslittle English and was not educated in the United States? How about for a tourist who does not sp
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eak English? Everyone knows criminal acts are prohibited, but what about subtler rules that differ ac
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ross countries and 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 con
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structive 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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VR Deluco v. Dezi (Conn. Super) (lack of knowledge regarding the state‘s usury laws is no excuse f
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or the inclusion of an illegal interest rate in a sales contract); and Plumlee v. Paddock (ignoranc
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e of thefact that the subject matter of the contract was illegal was not excuse). The courts have
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VR provided a small exception to the rule when it comes to people in lack of English language ski
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lls. Consider Flanery v. Kuska, (defendant did not speak English was advised by a friend that an
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R answer to a complaint was not required); Ramon v. Dept. of Transportation, (no English and an
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R inability to understand the law required for an excuse); Yurechko v. County of Allegheny, (Ignor
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ance and with the fact that the municipality suffered no hardship in late lawsuit filing was an e
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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.
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of water and no supply of food. . . . That on the eighteenth day . . . they
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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
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............................................................................................................................................. of the boy for four days; [then] VR VR VR VR VR VR




the boat was picked up by a passing vessel, and [they] were rescued. . . . and committed for trial. .
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if the men had not fed upon the body of the boy they would probably not have survived t
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o be sopicked up and rescued, but would
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condition, was likely to have died before them .... The real question in this case [is] whether killing
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under the conditions set forth .... be or be not murder.” Do you consider the acts to be immoral?
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[Regina v. Dudley and Stephens, 14 Queens Bench Division 273 (1884)]
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Answer: This points out that the legal system has limits. Its acceptability is dictated by legal culture--
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whichdetermines whether law will be enforced, obeyed, avoided, or abused. It is limited by the i
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its customs and values. One limit is the extent to which society will allow the formal rules to be
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