MEJO 341 FINAL UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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MEJO 341 FINAL UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What are the 4 types of law? - CORRECT ANSWER- Common, statutory, constitutional,
administrative
The Golden Rule - CORRECT ANSWER- Was there a reasonable expectation to
privacy?
Net neutrality - CORRECT ANSWER- -the principle...
MEJO 341 FINAL UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What are the 4 types of law? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Common, statutory, constitutional,
administrative
The Golden Rule - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Was there a reasonable expectation to
privacy?
Net neutrality - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-the principle that traffic on the Internet is not
privileged
-all packets (data) travel equally (in theory)
-i.e. your blog has an equal chance of being seen as does the NYTimes
commercial speech - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔advertising
FCC and net neutrality - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Tried to encourage net neutral
principles, labeling ISPs "information providers" they could regulate
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-created in 1914 by FTC Act
-regulatory branch
-writes administrative law
-created to prevent companies from using false and deceptive ads for unfair competition - to
create a monopoly
-body of commissioners (5) three from the party power, two from minority party
Third Party Doctrine - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-Information lawfully held by third parties
is treated differently. It can be obtained by subpoenaing the third party, by securing the third
party's consent or by any other means of legal discovery; the "owner" has no role in the
matter, and, often, no search warrant is required. (Smith v. Maryland, 1979)
-Notion that a person who surrenders information to a third party consents to that third party's
disclosure of such information to others.
,Common Law - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Law that comes out of the courts
Stare decisis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔"let the decision stand"
Common Carrier - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-A business using some public good that gov't
must regulate in the interest of all
-common carrier is the preferred legal designation to fully regulate telecomm companies
Valentine v. Chrestensen (1942) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔BAD LAW
said purely commercial speech is not be the first amendment
Third Party Doctrine - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Global Positioning System tracking case,
U.S. v. Jones (2012). Police cannot attach a GPS device to a suspect's car without a warrant.
Riley v. California (2014): The police generally may not, without a warrant, search digital
information on a cellphone seized from an individual who has been arrested.
Precedent - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔basis for all other decision in that subject going
forward
FCC v. Verizon (DC Cir. 2014) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-Verizon & more challenged the
FCC's authority to regulate their businesses and the "Open Internet Order" that said that
businesses can't discriminate traffic
-Verizon & more wanted to discriminate traffic on the internet to improve streaming services
and charge high bandwidth customers more
-DC Cir. ruled that while FCC has authority to regulate the Internet, "Open Internet Order"
was not within their power
-To have that power, FCC must declare broadband providers to be "common carriers" (like
phone companies); FCC had classified them as "information providers"
-FCC had been hesitant to declare internet a common carrier
NY Times v. Sullivan (1964) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔weakened rule from Valentine v.
Christense by protecting editorial ads
,Third Party Doctrine - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Justice Sonia Sotomayor's concurrence in
Jones described the third-party records doctrine as "ill-suited to the digital age, in which
people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of
carrying out mundane tasks."
Types of Privacy Claims - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Publication torts
Newsgathering torts
A tort is a type of injury...a wrong against someone
Due process of law - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔same expectations to the way law applies to
all of us
Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council (1976) - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔SCOTUS reverses precedent set in Valentine v. Christensen, commercial
speech now protected
Open Internet Order - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Kept: Transparency requirement
Ditched: Anti-blocking requirement; Anti-discrimination requirement
judicial restraint vs. judicial activism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔those who practice judicial
restraint have a greater willingness to accept lower court decisions and defer to other
branches of government.
Judicial activism is wanting to challenge them
New FCC Rules - Adopted Feb. 2015 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-No blocking: broadband
providers may not block access to legal content, applications, services, or non-harmful
devices
-No throttling: broadband providers may not impair or degrade lawful internet traffic on the
basis of content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices
-no paid prioritization: broadband providers may not favor some lawful internet traffic over
other lawful traffic in exchange for consideration of any kind - aka no fast lanes. Also bans
ISPs from prioritizing content and services of their affiliates
, Protections of commercial speech - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-Commercial speech
undergoes the intermediate scrutiny test
--"substantial interest to regulate the speech"
-false commercial speech NOT protected
-Prior restraints are allowed
-Can be compelled
Publication torts - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔These include three privacy torts
Appropriation
False Light
Public disclosure of embarrassing private facts
Statutory Law - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Made by legislators. On the federal, state, or
local level
Just and Reasonable Conduct provision - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-allows the FCC to
decide what is acceptable on a case-by-case basis
-Congress?
-v current event
-American Commitment - Koch brothers' group delivers 540,000 signatures to congress vs.
140 startups (etsy, buzzfeed, tumblr, kickstarter, etc) signing a letter to the FCC thanking
them
Why are we harsher on commercial speech? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-comm. speech is
hardier -- advertisers won't be intimidated like political speech
-comm. speech can be verified
Appropriation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The use of a person's name or image for
commercial purposes without that person's permission
Celebrities suffer a violation of "right of publicity"
Private people suffer emotional distress due to shame and humiliation - commercialization of
their identity
Recognized in NC
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