JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS INSTRUCTOR: NANCY A. JOHNSON‚ ESQ. PROJECT 1 DUE: ______________ INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Do Not write your name on your exam‚ use your student number 2. Define all legal terms used. 3. Use the IRAC approach to analyze each lawsuit (Issue‚ Rule‚ Argument‚ Conclusion) a. Issue: What is the legal basis for their suit? b. Rule: What is/are the issues rule(s) covering this area? c. Argument Based on the legal rule(s)‚ how will each side
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Legal Underpinnings of Business Law OMM 670: Legal Environment February 25‚ 2013 Legal Underpinnings of Business Law Business | Type of Business | Liability Exposure | Compare | Contrast | Tinker’s Home Security Service | Sole proprietorship | Unlimited | Monetary rewards are from both the Proprietor & business | Sole Liability | Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service | General partnership | Unlimited | All partners are responsible whether silent or active | If you are
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Ivory Lenson The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business MGM365-0904B-07 Phase 3 Discussion Board 1 CTU Online Professor Darlene Pomponio December 26‚ 2009 A business has the responsibility of operating with the people in an ethical way or the way that they want to be treated. I think that the business world has the temptation to not treat others fair. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent US government agency‚ directly responsible to Congress‚ and regulates interstate
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Essentials of Consideration Presence of consideration is one of the requisites of Valid Contract. Consideration must be of two directional nature. That means both parties should get benefited mutually. Then only the Contract becomes capable of creating legal relations. Consideration may be in the form of cash‚ goods‚ act or Abstinence. Definition of Consideration “When at the desire of the promissor‚ the promisee or any other person has done or abstained from doing or does or abstains from
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Hyde v Wrench(1840) Hyde v Wrench [1840] EWHC Ch J90 is a leading English contract law case on the issue of counter-offers and their relation to initial offers. In it Lord Langdale ruled that any counter-offer cancels the original offer. Wrench offered to sell his farm in Luddenham to Hyde for £1000‚ an offer which Hyde declined. On 6 June 1840 Wrench wrote to Hyde’s agent offering to sell the farm for £1000‚ stating that it was the final offer and that he would not alter from it.[1] Hyde offered
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Business Ethics and Legal Issues by Crystal D. King AIU Online BUSN310 – International Legal and Ethical Issues in Business Unit 4 Individual Project March 6‚ 2011 Abstract Antitrust laws were primarily created to put an end to businesses that got too large from blocking competition and abusing their power. Choices offered to consumers can be limited by mergers and monopolies because smaller businesses are not usually able to compete in the marketplace. Even though free and open competition
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Legal and Ethical Considerations: Main Challenges 1. Understanding the moral risks of new technology. Millions of records on private citizens now available over the counter pose a threat to privacy. Principles of right and wrong 2. Establishing corporate ethics policies that include information systems issues. Main Social Legal and Ethical issues: 1. Privacy & personal information 2. Freedom if speech 3. Can we trust computers? 4. Intellectual property
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND LEGAL REASONING I. SCHOOLS OF JURISPRUDENTIAL THOUGH a. Types of Schools of Jurisprudential Schools. 1. The Natural Law School A. Denotes a system of moral and ethical principles based on a person’s natural instinct and use of natural intelligence. i. Dates back to Greek Philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) distinguished between natural law and laws governing a nation. 2. The Positivist School A. Positive Law-National and written
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Legal & Ethical Environment of Business DATE: 2/4/2013 Week 1 Assignment PART 1: Follow the link below‚ read the article and analyze the practice of “dumping” dangerous drugs overseas. Can an American company be penalized for marketing a product deemed unsafe by the U.S.‚ if it is not also banned by the foreign
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Business Ethics & Legal Issues Marilyn Buck AIU Online Unit 4 IP December 4‚ 2011 Abstract A pharmaceutical company has rights to a drug paten but it takes a lot to get that patent. Until that can happen‚ anyone can make a similar drug and
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