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Business Law Today - The Essentials Text &
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Summarized Cases, Cengage, 13th edition,
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Roger LeRoy Miller, Chapters 1 - 25, Complete
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,CHAPTER 1: Legal and Constitutional Foundations of Business
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—Appendix to Chapter 1: Finding and Analyzing the Law
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CHAPTER 2: Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution
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CHAPTER 3: Ethics in Business
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—Appendix to Chapter 3: Code of Ethics Example
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CHAPTER 4: Tort Law
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CHAPTER 5: Intellectual Property Rights
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CHAPTER 6: Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy
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CHAPTER 7: Criminal Law and Cyber Crime
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CHAPTER 8: Agreement and Consideration in Contracts
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CHAPTER 9: Capacity, Legality, and Enforceability
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CHAPTER 10: Contract Performance, Breach, and Remedies
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CHAPTER 11: Sales and Lease Contracts
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CHAPTER 12: Performance and Breach in Sales and Lease Contracts
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CHAPTER 13: Negotiable Instruments
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CHAPTER 14: Banking
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CHAPTER 15: Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy
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CHAPTER 16: Agency Relationships in Business
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CHAPTER 17: Employment Law
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CHAPTER 18: The Entrepreneur’s Options
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,CHAPTER 19: Corporations
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CHAPTER 20: Investor Protection, Insider Trading, and Corporate
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Governance
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CHAPTER 21: Antitrust Law and Promoting Competition
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CHAPTER 22: Consumer Law
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CHAPTER 23: Personal Property, Bailments, and Insurance
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CHAPTER 24: Real Property and Environmental Law
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CHAPTER 25: International and Space Law
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Miller, Business Law Today, The Essentials Text & Summarized Cases 13e,
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9780357635346; Chapter 01: Legal and Constitutional Foundations of Business
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Critical Thinking Questions in Features ...................................................................................................... 1
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Adapting the Law to the Online Environment ....................................................................................... 1
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Critical Thinking Questions in Cases ........................................................................................................... 2
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Case 1.1 .................................................................................................................................................... 2
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Case 1.2 .................................................................................................................................................... 3
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Case 1.3 .................................................................................................................................................... 3
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Chapter Review ............................................................................................................................................ 4
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Practice and Review ................................................................................................................................. 4
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Practice and Review: Debate This........................................................................................................... 5
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Issue Spotters ........................................................................................................................................... 5
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Business Scenarios and Case Problems .................................................................................................. 5
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Critical Thinking and Writing Assignments ........................................................................................... 10
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Critical Thinking Questions in Appendix Exhibit 1A–3 ............................................................................. 11
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Exhibit 1A–3 ............................................................................................................................................ 11
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Critical Thinking Questions in Features
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Adapting the Law to the Online Environment
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1. One observer has said that the American legal system should evaluate social media companies
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based on how ―they affect us as citizens, not only [on how] they affect us as consumers.‖ What
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is your opinion of this statement?
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Solution
The person who made this statement clearly sees a ―citizen‖ as having different motivations and
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mconcerns than a ―consumer.‖ Presumably, a citizen is mostly concerned with the good of society as
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ma whole, and therefore would be open to the idea of government regulation that restricted the
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negative influence of social media, regardless of the First Amendment. A consumer, by contrast,
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mwould be primarily concerned with having a marketplace that offers the widest possible varieties
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mof freedom (of choice, of speech, etc.) and would for that reason be opposed to government
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mregulation of social media. There is, however, an argument to be made that the citizens that
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mmake up a society benefit when the marketplace of ideas—whether they are subjectively
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―positive‖ or ―negative‖—is allowed to flourish in the absence of government regulation.
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2. Tim Cook, Apple‘s chief operating officer, has suggested that the United States Congress should
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pass a law limiting the ability of Apple and other tech countries to keep consumer data private.
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Why would a business executive make such a request?
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