Chapter 1 Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning Answers to Questions in the Reviewing Feature AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER 1A. PARTIES The automobile manufacturers are the plaintiffs, and the state of California is the defendant. 2A. Remedy The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction, an equitable remedy, to prevent the state of California from enforcing its statute restricting carbon dioxide emissions. 3A. Source of law This case involves a law passed by the California legislature
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procedural, compensatory, and retributive. Business ethics is the moral principles and standards that guide behavior in the world of business (Jennings, 2010). Corporate social responsibility is the obligation toward society assumed by business. The business maximizes it positive effects on society and minimizes it negative effects. An illustration of an ethical and social responsibility issue related to the textile manufacturing business. In today’s global business, where large multinational corporations
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an example to get you started on the Week 2 Homework: 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means
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BusLaw Brinkley V. Casey and Big-City Newspaper FACTS Brinkley, a copy editor of the Big-City Newspaper finds a serious error in the headline banner for tomorrows newspaper. Brinkley reports to Casey, the chief editor about the error and its correction. Casey offers Brinkley a $500 bonus payable on her next check. Casey changes his mind about the bonus and tells Brinkley. Brinkley claims she earned the money, that Casey promised. ISSUE Was there an agreement between the two parties
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Course Business Law I Quiz 1 LEG100 This quiz consist of 20 multiple choice questions and covers the material in chapters 1 through 4. There are five questions from each chapter. Be sure you are in the correct Chapter when you take the quiz. • Question 1 4 out of 4 points The ______ approach recognizes that “business decisions consist of continuous, interrelated economic and moral components.” Answer Selected Answer: Systems Correct Answer: Systems
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its intended purposes. That is what’s called an “implied warranty” meaning it exists without a need to be written or spoken. A commercial seller does not have to tell a buyer that the product is guaranteed to work for its usual purpose because the law itself creates that warranty. The Implied Warranty of Merchantability falls under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) 2-314. The warranty is based off the idea that the seller should know whether a product will perform properly or not and encourages
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Business Entities, Laws, and Regulations Business Entities, Laws, and Regulations Two start-up businesses in different industries are beginning and an established company with labor issues are the focus of this paper. For the two start-ups, a sports bar and a birth clinic, a case needs to be made for the type of business entity they should each use. The established company is a construction company whose business entity must be identified and employment law pertaining to the scenario will be
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Business Entities, Laws and Regulation Paper Earnestine Pearson BUS/415 April 23, 2012 Tony Cardillo A entrepreneur according to Cheeseman, 2010, “is a person who forms and operates a business” (p. 250). In opening and starting a business, an individual will have to decide what type of business to form, and if he, she, or they is qualified to do. Individuals must also be able to determine the different forms of business organizations. These forms include: sole proprietorship, general partnership
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Business Entities, Laws, and Regulations The purpose of the paper is to review the restaurant/bar and extermination businesses and discuss the entity that best suits the business. I will also review the construction scenario and discuss if Surebuild is in violations of any employment laws. An entrepreneur’s main goal is to manage a successful business and also to protect his or her investments. After making a decision to start up a business the next crucial step is to decide on what type of entity
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operates as effectively and harmoniously as possible. The Report focuses primarily on Succession Law Reform Act but also includes an examination of relevant provisions of The Estate Act. Succession Law Reform Act Like the wills legislation of many other common law jurisdictions, Ontario’s Succession Law Reform Act is based on the Wills Act 1837, which was an attempt to rationalize and simplify the law as it then stood. Over time, however, it became apparent that the legislation also required simplification
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