SOLUTION MANUAL FOR THE LEGAL
ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS 14TH EDITION BY
ROGER E. MEINERS FULL TESTBANK ALL
CHAPTERS 1 – 22 INCLUDED || LATEST AND
COMPLETE UPDATE WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
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SOLUTION MANUAL FOR THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF
BUSINESS 14TH EDITION BY ROGER E. MEINERS FULL TESTBANK
ALL CHAPTERS 1 – 22 INCLUDED || LATEST AND COMPLETE
UPDATE WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
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
➢ Chapter 20. Antitrust Law
➢ Chapter 21. Environmental Law
➢ Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of Business
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CHAPTER 1
Table of Contents
Answer to Discussion Question
. 1
Answers to Case Questions
. 1
Answers 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 the fact 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 day . . . they suggested
that one should be sacrificed to save the rest. . . . That next 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] the boat was picked up by a passing vessel, and [they] were rescued and
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committed for trial if the men had not fed upon the body of the boy they would probably not
have survived to be so picked up and rescued, but would have died of famine. The boy, being
in a much weaker condition, was likely to have died before them The real question in this case
[is] whether killing under the conditions set forth be or be not murder.” Do you consider the acts
to be immoral? [Regina v. Dudley and Stephens, 14 Queens Bench Division 273 (1884)]
Answer: This points out that the legal system has limits. Its acceptability is dictated by legal culture--which
determines whether law will be enforced, obeyed, avoided, or abused. It is limited by the informal rules of
the society--its customs and values. One limit is the extent to which society will allow the formal rules to be
imposed when a crime is committed in odd circumstances. Here there was an intentional murder. Does
the motive for the murder, the effort to save several lives by sacrificing one
ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS 14TH EDITION BY
ROGER E. MEINERS FULL TESTBANK ALL
CHAPTERS 1 – 22 INCLUDED || LATEST AND
COMPLETE UPDATE WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
, 1|Page
SOLUTION MANUAL FOR THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF
BUSINESS 14TH EDITION BY ROGER E. MEINERS FULL TESTBANK
ALL CHAPTERS 1 – 22 INCLUDED || LATEST AND COMPLETE
UPDATE WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
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
➢ Chapter 20. Antitrust Law
➢ Chapter 21. Environmental Law
➢ Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of Business
, 2|Page
CHAPTER 1
Table of Contents
Answer to Discussion Question
. 1
Answers to Case Questions
. 1
Answers 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 the fact 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 day . . . they suggested
that one should be sacrificed to save the rest. . . . That next 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] the boat was picked up by a passing vessel, and [they] were rescued and
, 3|Page
committed for trial if the men had not fed upon the body of the boy they would probably not
have survived to be so picked up and rescued, but would have died of famine. The boy, being
in a much weaker condition, was likely to have died before them The real question in this case
[is] whether killing under the conditions set forth be or be not murder.” Do you consider the acts
to be immoral? [Regina v. Dudley and Stephens, 14 Queens Bench Division 273 (1884)]
Answer: This points out that the legal system has limits. Its acceptability is dictated by legal culture--which
determines whether law will be enforced, obeyed, avoided, or abused. It is limited by the informal rules of
the society--its customs and values. One limit is the extent to which society will allow the formal rules to be
imposed when a crime is committed in odd circumstances. Here there was an intentional murder. Does
the motive for the murder, the effort to save several lives by sacrificing one
