
4. Ross wants to be held liable only if she had the power to direct these deceptive campaigns and
5. There are two standards for judging corporate wrong doing, one for false advertising and one
for securities fraud because the two offenses are qualitatively different. False advertising occurs
THE OPENING CASE Round 2
The CAS as Social Engineer: The Corporate Veil—Protection or Deception?
1. An internal contradiction does seem to exist here. It would seem that Ross is asking for
protection behind the corporate veil while the Hobby Lobby folks are asking for protection
2. The Hobby Lobby case would seem to be the exception. The protective nature of the corporate
A Question of Ethics: Unsafe Products v. Dangerous Products
1. Most learners will respond by noting that the function of a firearm or explosive device (a bomb)
is to kill or at least injure another person or persons (or some other living thing, for that matter). On the
2. Again, as noted above, explosive devices (bombs) can be used in demolition and firearms can
3. The “dangerous per se” rule will not prevent killing or create crime free neighborhoods. The
per se rule might lessen the number of opportunities for killing, since other methods of killing, quite
frankly, take more effort and might, therefore, save some (many?) lives, but creating crime free
neighborhoods---in a word, “no.” To eliminate crime-free neighborhoods (or to create rebellion-free
third world nations, for that matter) the underlying conditions that cause crime (and/or rebellion and the