SOLUTION MANUAL The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition by Roger E. Meiners, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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SOLUTION MANUAL
The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition
by Roger E. Meiners, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
SOLUTION MANUAL
The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition
by Roger E. Meiners, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
SOLUTION MANUAL
The Legal Environment of Business, 14th Edition
by Ro...
Chapter 22. The International Legal Environment of Business
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,CHAPTER 1 xx!!
Table of Contents xx!! xx!!
Answer to Discussion Question ................................................................................................................. 1
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Answers to Case Questions ....................................................................................................................... 1
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Answers to Ethics and Social Questions .................................................................................................. 3
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Should the common law maxim “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” apply to an immigrant who
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speakslittle English and was not educated in the United States? How about for a tourist who does not
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speak English? Everyone knows criminal acts are prohibited, but what about subtler rules that differ
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across countries and so may be misunderstood by foreigners?
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Answer: It is generally true that ignorance of the law is no excuse. Citizens are deemed to have
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constructive knowledge of the law. Yet, as well known as this rule is, it is surprising how often
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it is proffered as an excuse. (A Westlaw search cases finds hundreds of examples). Examples
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include: Deluco v. Dezi (Conn. Super) (lack of knowledge regarding the state‘s usury laws is no
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excuse for the inclusion of an illegal interest rate in a sales contract); and Plumlee v. Paddock
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(ignorance of thefact that the subject matter of the contract was illegal was not excuse). The
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courts have provided a small exception to the rule when it comes to people in lack of English
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language skills. Consider Flanery v. Kuska, (defendant did not speak English was advised by a
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friend that an answer to a complaint was not required); Ramon v. Dept. of Transportation, (no
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English and an inability to understand the law required for an excuse); Yurechko v. County of
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Allegheny, (Ignorance and with the fact that the municipality suffered no hardship in late lawsuit
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filing was an excuse).
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1. Facts from an English judge’s decision in 1884: “The crew of an English yacht .........were cast away in
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a storm on the high seas . . . and were compelled to put into an open boat. They had no supply
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of water and no supply of food. . . . That on the eighteenth day . . . they
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should be sacrificed to save the rest. . . . That next day . . . they . . . went to the boy put a
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knife
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into his throat and killed him . . . the three men fed upon the body of the boy for four days; [then]
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the boat was picked up by a passing vessel, and [they] were rescued. . . . and committed for trial. .
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if the men had not fed upon the body of the boy they would probably not have survived to
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be sopicked up and rescued, but would have died of famine. The boy, being in a much
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weaker
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condition, was likely to have died before them ...... The real question in this case [is] whether killing
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under the conditions set forth ....... be or be not murder.” Do you consider the acts to be immoral?
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Answer: This points out that the legal system has limits. Its acceptability is dictated by legal culture--
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whichdetermines whether law will be enforced, obeyed, avoided, or abused. It is limited by the
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informal rules of the society--its customs and values. One limit is the extent to which society will
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, allow the formal rules to be imposed when a crime is committed in odd circumstances. Here
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there was an intentional murder. Does the motive for the murder, the effort to save several
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lives by sacrificing one
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