...Running Head: Business Ethics Case Business Ethics Case Student Name BUS/415 Business Law Date Instructor Name Business Ethics Case The National Enquirer, Inc. is a corporation with its principal place of business in Florida. It publishes the National Enquirer, a national weekly newspaper with a total circulation of more than 5 million copies. About 600,000 copies, almost twice the level in the next highest state, are sold in California. Jones, an entertainer and also a California resident, filed a lawsuit in California state court against the National Enquirer and its president, who was a resident of Florida because The National Enquirer published an article about Shirley Jones. The damages for alleged defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress were filed in a lawsuit by California. Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 104 S.Ct. 1482, 79 L.Ed.2d 804, Web 1984 U.S. Lexis 4 (Supreme Court of the United States) What kind of paper is the National Enquirer? The National Enquirer is involved in giving exaggerated stories such as personal life or any scandal of any celebrity or news which create sensation and arise curiosity. It is a tabloid magazine and its main focus is on celebrity news and gossip. It is not considered credible because of its exaggeration. Despite of all this company has a strong base and standing. As per Funding Universe (n.d.), there are 1,331 employees with the Enquirer’s holding company,...
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...Business Ethics Case BUS/415 December 5, 2011 University of Phoenix Business Ethics Case This paper will discuss the 1984 Supreme Court of the United States lawsuit between Calder v. Jones. The lawsuit was filed by actress Shirley Jones, from Partridge Family fame, in California against the president of the National Enquirer and the National Enquirer itself, both of which are residents of Florida, for alleged defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress (Cheeseman, H. 2010). The National Enquirer had alleged that Shirley Jones was an alcoholic. The National Enquirer The National Enquirer is a newspaper that is published weekly and distributed across the United States to more than five million people per week (Cheeseman, H. 2010). The National Enquirer paper is based out of Florida, housed at The National Enquirer, Inc. Of the five million copies per week that are circulated throughout the United States, 600,000 are primarily sold in California (Cheeseman, H. 2010). The National Enquirer, also known as a “tabloid gossip sheet” has spent the last 15 years being the main source for major news breaking stories that has worked to focus on celebrity scandals (Barry Levine, 2010). The Lawsuit ...
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...Business Ethics Case Tina M. Drinka BUS/415 March 12, 2012 Rob Tischer, J.D., M.A. Business Ethics Case Discussed in this paper is the case of Calder v. Jones, 465 United States 783, 1984. Respondent Shirley Jones filed suit in California Superior Court against the National Enquirer claiming libel. Petitioners are South the reporter who wrote the article for the National Enquirer, and Calder who holds the position of president and editor of the National Enquirer. What Kind of Paper is National Enquirer? The Enquirer/Star Group, Inc. is a holding company for many best selling supermarket tabloids founded in 1926, by William Radolph Hearst, known at that time as the New York Enquirer (Randall, 1986). Generoso Pope, Jr. purchased the paper in 1952 utalizing his marketing skills to introduce the paper into supermarkets during the 1970s (Randall, 1986). The group’s shining star is the National Enquirer with a weekly circulation of seven million when combined with the Star and only TV Guide has a higher weekly circulation. The National Enquirer, Inc. principally based in Florida, publishing a weekly magazine distributed nationally with a total circulation exceeding five million. Approximately 600,000 copies circulate in California, which is twice the total of the next largest circulation market. Avoiding Suit in California Petitioner South, the reporter who wrote the article in question, lives in Florida, but travels on business to California...
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...Individual Business Ethics Case | Read Business Ethics Case 3.5 at the end of Ch. 3 of The Legal Environment of Business and Online Commerce. After reading the case, be prepared to answer the questions that follow. | 3.5 Business Ethics The National Enquirer, Inc, is a Florida corporation with its principal place of business in Florida. It publishes the National Enquirer, a national weekly newspaper with a total circulation of more than 5 million copies. About 600,000 copies, almost twice the level in the next highest state, are sold in California. The National Enquirer published an article about Shirley Jones, an entertainer. Jones, a California resident, filed a lawsuit in California state court against the National Enquirer and its president, who was a resident of Florida. The California lawsuit sought damages for alleged defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 104 S.Ct. 1482, 79 L.Ed.2d 804, Web 1984 U.S. Lexis 4 (Supreme Court of the United States) 1. What kind of paper is the National Enquirer? It is a national magazine with a large circulation in California. 2. Was it ethical for the National Enquirer to try to avoid suit in California? No, they argue that they are not responsible for the circulation of the article in California. They wrote and edited an article that they knew would have a potentially devastating impact upon respondent, and they knew that the brunt of that injury would...
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...Business Ethics Case Terry Baer BUS 415 October 17, 2011 Eric Nord Business Ethics Chapter 3 Problem 3.5 The National Enquirer, Inc., is a Florida corporation with its principal place of business in Florida. It publishes the National Enquirer, a national weekly newspaper with a total circulation of more than 5 million copies. About 600,000 copies, almost twice the level in the next highest state, are sold in California. The National Enquirer published an article about Shirley Jones, an entertainer. Jones, a California resident, filed a lawsuit in California state court against the National Enquirer and its president, who was a resident of Florida. The California lawsuit sought damages for alleged defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 104 S.Ct. 1482, 79 L.Ed.2d 804, Web 1984 U.S. Lexis 4 (Supreme Court of the United States). 1. What kind of paper is the National Enquirer? The National Enquirer is a weekly newspaper sold throughout the nation with its headquarters in Florida (Cheeseman, 2010). The National Enquirer is a widely known newspaper about tabloids that focuses on scandalous events that involved celebrities and/or politicians. There are times when the National Enquirer has been questioned about how the writer and/or newspaper have received their information about the event. The National Enquirer has also faced multiple lawsuits as a result of the events in question. 2. Was it...
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...Business Ethics Case 3.5 3.5 Business Ethics The National Enquirer, Inc., is a Florida corporation with its principal place of business in Florida. It publishes the National Enquirer, a national weekly newspaper with a total circulation of more than 5 million copies. About 600,000 copies, almost twice the level in the next highest state, are sold in California. The National Enquirer published an article about Shirley Jones, an entertainer. Jones, a California resident, filed a lawsuit in California state court against the National Enquirer and its president, who was a resident of Florida. The California lawsuit sought damages for alleged defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 104 S.Ct. 1482, 79 L.Ed.2d 804, Web 1984 U.S. Lexis 4 (Supreme Court of the United States) 1. What kind of paper is the National Enquirer? After researching many peer-reviewed sources within the University Library and other websites, I hate to use the Wiki, however, it seems to be the only website that gives a description of the National Enquirer I also find to be accurate. Even the National Enquirer website lacks any type of description. The Wiki states that “the National Enquirer is an American supermarket tabloid…currently well-known for exaggerating, as well as fabricating in its articles focusing on celebrity news, gossip, and crime in order to sell its newspapers” (Wikipedia, 2010, p. 1). Indeed, I have always found...
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...Ethic Case 3.5 The National Enquirer, Inc., is a Florida corporation with its principal place of business in Florida. It publishes the National Enquirer, a national weekly newspaper with a total circulation of more than 5 million copies. About 600,000 copies, almost twice the level in the next highest state, are sold in California. The National Enquirer published an article about Shirley Jones, an entertainer. Jones, a California resident, filed a lawsuit in California state court against the National Enquirer and its president, who was a resident of Florida. The California lawsuit sought damages for alleged defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 104 S.Ct. 1482, 79 L.Ed.2d 804, Web 1984 U.S. Lexis 4 (Supreme Court of the United States) 1. What kind of paper is the National Enquirer? The National Enquirer is a tabloid magazine that at times has truthful articles. However, at times it does publish articles that are not completely true. It is published weekly nationwide and sells more than five million copies. Even though most of the public knows the articles are not always true but they buy the magazine anyways so that they can see what types of stories they have come up with. 2. Was it ethical for the National Enquirer to try to avoid suit in California? The National Enquirer is a corporation based in Florida. With that information I would assume that all employees of The National Enquirer...
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...Business Ethics Case Lauren Kendall BUS415 February 23, 2011 Neha Bhatia Business Ethics Case The National Enquirer, Inc. is a Florida corporation with its principal place of business in Florida. It publishes the National Enquirer, a national weekly newspaper with a total circulation of more than five million copies. About 600,000 copies, almost twice the level in the next highest state, are sold in California. The National Enquirer published an article about Shirley Jones, an entertainer. Jones, a California resident, filed a lawsuit in California state court against the National Enquirer and its president, who was a resident of Florida. The California lawsuit sought damages for alleged defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The National Enquirer is a nationwide magazine, which is known as a tabloid or newspaper that often prints inaccurate news or stories about other people. The magazine is reckless and takes no interest in how their dishonesty affects the people behind the articles. As an entertainer, Shirley Jones resides, and works in her hometown California. The National Enquirer made the decision to publish an article about Shirley Jones containing unsupported material about the actress being an alcoholic. Even though the article was written, edited, and published in Florida, Shirley Jones filed a lawsuit in California. The National Enquirer attempted to challenge the case because they stated...
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...Q 1: Discuss and analyze the ethical issues reflected in the case. The case is about British American Tobacco (BAT), London-based tobacco firm, which is involved in doing unethical activities and hence breaking their marketing code in Africa. BBC had investigated and found BAT is trying to attract more young African buyers of its product by adjusting marketing strategy to meet young people's needs. They are actually promoting and selling cigarettes in form of “single sticks”, which is attractive to young people of poor African countries like Nigeria, Malawi and Mauritius, who cannot afford to buy a whole packet of cigarettes. Now, there is nothing wrong with marketing one's product to target an audience of possible consumers. However, in this case, BAT allegedly targeted African children as young as 11 by aggressively marketing single sticks' to them. The company also hosted events that targeted young people despite their publicly stated commitments. Now, we know that most ethical issues concerning business consumer relations refer to the ‘marketing mix’, ethical issues in product policy, marketing communications, pricing and marketing strategy. Ethical Issues in marketing management – Product Policy At the most basic level, manufacturers should exercise due care in establishing that all reasonable steps are taken to ensure that their products are free from defects and safe to use as well as effective and fit for the purpose. Cigarette may be effective as they claim...
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...Business Ethics National Enquirer Case “National Enquirer Inc. publishes and distributes a weekly general interest periodical under the name, National Enquirer. National Enquirer periodical contains information and editorial content related to investigative reporting, celebrity gossip and features, human-interest stories and covers articles about health, food, and household affairs topics. The company is based in Boca Raton, Florida. National Enquirer operates as a subsidiary of American Media Operations Inc “(Frost, 2011 ¶1). National Enquirer has a reputation for stretching the truth about the stories contained within the magazine. Often times the stories are derogatory toward celebrity figures, and are grossly exaggerated creating a perception of that person that is not positive. This would be defamation of character “Defamation of Character, is false and unprivileged spoken words or written publication, which exposes any living person to hatred, contempt, ridicule” (Aaron Larson, 2005 p. 1). The stories have to be somewhat true so the journalist will print just enough truth to make the story believable. However, after many lawsuits and out of court settlements the magazine has tried to improve its public image. “The National Enquirer’s reputation is still poor, even with the improvements over the past years, according to the Pew Research Center’s latest survey” (Hannah, 2004 p.1). Jones versus National Enquirer Case study: “The National Enquirer published an article...
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...of directors, criminal penalties for misconducts, and essentially defines how public corporations are to comply with the law. The SOX was meant as both an economic and ethical stabilizer so that corporate managers would be held accountable for their business practices. In a 2012 article by Curt Finch, it is said by his personal opinion that a person should always become SOX compliant if they’re interested, or may ever become interested, in being a partner with a large corporation or expanding their company into a corporation. By doing so it will increase your credibility and give you a base line from which to operate while moving forward within your business, which in turn will require less of a transition if you eventually wish to continue to grow your company (Finch, 2015). The largest, most obvious reason for his recommendation to become SOX compliant is the fact that it is the law, never mind that it is good for you or for your business, you may be facing jail time without your company being SOX compliant which truly should be motivation enough. Even for smaller businesses where it is not mandatory, SOX is still applicable and has a significant effect on your business. This is sometimes difficult to see when most business owners tend to wave SOX aside because it’s not a mandatory law for small businesses, however the fact remains that SOX does have effects on small businesses regardless of what is mandatory by law. A solid understanding of SOX...
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...Business Ethics Case 3.5 Business Ethics The National Enquirer, Inc., is a Florida corporation with its principal place of business in Florida. It publishes the National Enquirer, a national weekly newspaper with a total circulation of more than 5 million copies. About 600,000 copies, almost twice the level in the next highest state, are sold in California. The National Enquirer published an article about Shirley Jones, an entertainer. Jones, a California resident, filed a lawsuit in California state court against the National Enquirer and its president, who was a resident of Florida. The California lawsuit sought damages for alleged defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 104 S.Ct. 1482, 79 L.Ed.2d 804, Web 1984 U.S. Lexis 4 (Supreme Court of the United States) 1. What kind of paper is the National Enquirer? National Enquirer is a supermarket tabloid founded in 1926; founded William Radolph Hearst. In 1926 the paper was known as New York Enquirer and then purchased in 1952 by Generoso Pope, Jr. Pope purchased the paper and used strategic marketing skills by establishing the paper into supermarkets racks across the country in the 70's (Randall, 1986). Furthermore, Pope knew for the paper to be successful he needed to pay the highest pay to top notch reporters and editors to produce, write, and manage the paper to be the best in its field. While this practice may not result in writing that...
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...INDIA, CHINA AND AMERICA INSTITUTE 1549 CLAIRMONT ROAD, SUITE 202 ● DECATUR, GA 30033 USA WWW.ICAINSTITUTE.ORG An Exploration of Human Resource Management Information Systems Security Humayun Zafar, Jan G. Clark & Myung S. Ko Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets Volume 3 November 2011 1 Zafar et al.: An Exploration of Human Resource Management Information Systems S Produced by The Berkeley Electronic Press, 2011 2011 JOURNAL OF EMERGING KNOWLEDGE ON EMERGING MARKETS ● WWW.ICAINSTITUTE.ORG PAGE 489 An Exploration of Human Resource Management Information Systems Security Humayun Zafar Kennesaw State University Jan G. Clark The University of Texas at San Antonio Myung S. Ko The University of Texas at San Antonio Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets Volume 3 November 2011 uman resource (HR) information systems are employed extensively by modern day firms. They are designed to support the HR functions such as attracting job applicants (Stone, Lukaszewski, & Isenhour, 2005) automating training and development, managing employee performance, and administering benefits systems (Burkhard, Schooley, Dawson, & Horan, 2010; Strohmeier, 2007). HR information systems can help meet employee needs, streamline operating procedures, reduce operating expenses, and also increase information accuracy and accessibility. They also aid in improving the professional standing of HR professionals in the organization (Hussain, H 2 ...
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...Students enrolled in our joint JD/LLM program in international and comparative law receive an in-depth education in both the public and private aspects of international and comparative law, enriched by the ubiquitous presence of foreign students; likewise, the foreign lawyers who enroll in our one-year LLM program in American law enroll in the same courses, attend the same conferences, and engage in the same intellectual and social life as American students. This issue of Duke Law Magazine provides a flavor of the international dimensions of the Law School. It touches on some of our ongoing international programs, including the Institutes in Transnational Law at Geneva and Hong Kong, the Global Capital Markets Center, the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, the...
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...Students enrolled in our joint JD/LLM program in international and comparative law receive an in-depth education in both the public and private aspects of international and comparative law, enriched by the ubiquitous presence of foreign students; likewise, the foreign lawyers who enroll in our one-year LLM program in American law enroll in the same courses, attend the same conferences, and engage in the same intellectual and social life as American students. This issue of Duke Law Magazine provides a flavor of the international dimensions of the Law School. It touches on some of our ongoing international programs, including the Institutes in Transnational Law at Geneva and Hong Kong, the Global Capital Markets Center, the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, the...
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