A mere interest in the problem at hand is sufficient to grant standing to sue.
With the prior consent by one of the parties to the communication, an employer may
lawfully monitor an employee phone call.
The Sherman Act prohibits attempts to monopolize as well as monopoly itself.
To establish a successful negligence claim, a plaintiff must establish that the defendant
owed a duty of due care to the plaintiff.
Whistle-blowing appears to be on the rise following the passage of the 2010
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
To promote fair trade, the World Trade Organization encourages the practice of
dumping.
Federal sentencing guidelines, issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, provide
ranges within which judges are advised to impose sentences.
Closely held corporations face the loss of limited liability through application of the
doctrine known as piercing the corporate veil.
For wired broadband services, net neutrality rules prohibit blocking of “lawful content,
applications, services, or non-harmful devices.”
Strict liability requires proof of negligence on the part of the defendant.
Common stockholders share all three property rights associated with stock ownership in
proportion to their holdings.
Among its major provisions, the False Claims Act raises penalties for whistle-blowers
to as much as 25 years imprisonment along with heavy fines.
A licensing agreement is made up of a number of franchisee agreements.
_____ is an element of crime that refers to evil intent.
A. Mens rea
B. Actus reus
C. Stare decisis
D. In rem action
Which of the following statements is true of the International Court of Justice?
A. It is a court that issues only advisory opinions that bind the parties.
B. It is no longer active since international trade agreements and treaties resolve most of
the disputes it used to decide.
C. It is the only court that is devoted entirely to hearing cases of international public
law.
D. It is made up of any number of judges from the U.S.
Which of the following statements is true of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?
A. It requires all publicly traded companies to voluntarily develop ethics codes.
B. It ordinarily permits a small gift or token of esteem or gratitude.
C. It establishes an independent board to oversee the accounting profession.
D. It defines a code of ethics as written standards that are reasonably designed to deter
wrongdoing.
A merger of two wine producers in the same geographic market would be an example
of a _____ merger.
A. congeneric
B. vertical
C. conglomerate
D. horizontal
The Family and Medical Leave Act:
A. protects recovering drug addicts and those erroneously believed to be drug abusers,
but not employees or applicants who are currently abusing drugs.
B. requires employers with 20 or more employees to permit departing employees to
retain group health coverage at their own expense for up to 18 months.
C. promulgates and enforces health and safety standards that identify and seek to
correct specific workplace hazards and problems.
D. entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take job-protected, unpaid leave
for certain family-related or medical reasons.
Feety Shoes, a footwear manufacturing company, acquires Skeez Leathers, a leather
manufacturing company. This would be an example of a _____ merger.
A. congeneric
B. vertical
C. horizontal
D. conglomerate
Virtue ethics focuses on the classic notion that the key to good ethics lies in a person’s
_____.
A. character
B. responsibilities
C. rights
D. rules
Which of the following statements is true of the triple bottom-line approach?
A. The only responsible and moral course of behavior is to reap the highest return
possible, within the law.
B. Financial success is necessary, but social and environmental responsibilities are of
equal importance, and corporations paying attention to those social and economic duties
will contribute to both organizational and societal sustainability.
C. The goal of business is to ensure the short-term viability of an organization€s plans
as organizational priorities change with time.
D. Businesses have only one social responsibility-to use their resources and engage in
activities designed to increase their profits, so long as they stay within the rules of the
game, which is to say, engage in open and free competition, without deception or fraud.
Which of the following is true of limited liability companies?
A. The management structure of a limited liability company is extremely rigid.
B. A single-member limited liability company cannot be treated as a corporation.
C. The operating agreement of a limited liability company is most likely to be in the
oral form.
D. To create a limited liability company, the owner(s) must file articles of organization
with the state.
During a trial, after a plaintiff’s attorney completes direct examination of a witness, the
defense attorney may question that witness in a process labeled _____.
A. negotiation
B. cross–examination
C. mediation
D. arbitration
Which of the following is the doctrine that in some cases permits the court to infer the
defendant’s negligence even though that negligence cannot be proved?
A. The doctrine of equal footing
B. The doctrine of res judicata
C. The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur
D. The doctrine of equivalents
A(n) _____ is any person who takes data that are discrete at the level of an individual
and combines it with individual-level data from one or more other sources.
A. aggregator
B. hacker
C. cyber stalker
D. spammer
_____ to the U.S. Constitution provides that no state shall deny to any person life,
liberty, or property without due process of law or deny him or her the equal protection
of the laws.
A. The Fourth Amendment
B. The Second Amendment
C. The Fourteenth Amendment
D. The Fifteenth Amendment
Which of the following is a provision of the Computer Pornography and Child
Exploitation Prevention Act of 1999?
A. It prohibits websites from collecting personal information from children under 13,
who use computers, without parental permission.
B. It requires that parents be allowed to review and correct any information collected
about their children and published.
C. It makes it unlawful for companies manufacturing computers to employ children
below the age of 15.
D. It makes it unlawful to use a computer to solicit, lure, or entice a child or otherwise
engage in sexual offenses with a child.
Which of the following is true of lemon laws?
A. Very few states protect consumers through lemon laws.
B. The determination about whether a car is a lemon is usually handled by an arbitration
panel.
C. They typically cover used cars for ten years or up to 100,000 miles after purchase.
D. Lemon laws are the same in every state.
Explain the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.
In the context of law and equity, explain the evolution of courts of equity.
Explain the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. What is required to invoke the doctrine and
what is the result of its successful use?
Explain how religion, libertarianism, and virtue ethics influence contemporary moral
analysis.
Explain the basis of Carol Gilligan’s criticism on Kohlberg’s views on moral
development.