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Chapter 08 - Government Regulation of Business
Answers to ‘Voyeur Dorm v. City of Tampa’ Questions (p.350)
1.
a. The court pointed out that the owners were not offering adult entertainment to members of the
b. The plain language of the ordinance contained no express statement that “the members of the
c. Generally, Tampa was worried about “secondary effects,” such as increased crime, increased
d. Offered as possibilities, although difficult to prevail on, are obscenity, nuisance or that the
2.
a. Rules are necessary in regulating the consumption of alcohol by the minors. Since consumption
b. The bar is negligent towards the distribution of liquor to the minors. Considering the number of
alcohol-related tickets issued over the period of two years it’s clear that an intervention of some
3.
a. The “sexually oriented business” ordinance as applied to adult businesses purveying speech
b. A badly divided court, filing four separate opinions in 48 pages, found a First Amendment
violation involving prior restraint of protected expression. The ordinance did not provide
adequate procedural safeguards in that it neither required the city to decide on a license
4.
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a. The Los Angeles rules were challenged on First Amendment freedom of speech grounds. The
9th Circuit ruled for Los Angeles. Using the Central Hudson test, the court affirmed the general
right of cities to impose reasonable limitations on signs in the interests of safety and aesthetics.
b. This is an opinion based question. Los Angeles Councilman Ed Reyes noted that some
neighborhoods detest billboards while others welcome them. “There are places that want to feel
5. This can be a discussion based question. Each of the requirements mentioned seem appropriate as
6.
a. This can be a discussion based question. The market can have significant impact on protecting
b. This is an example of imperfect information—particularly useable information in the hands of the
Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations and Federal
Communications Commission v. ABC 132 S. Ct. 2307 (2012) (p. 359)
Syllabus
This case concerns isolated utterances of the F- and S-words during two live broadcasts aired by Fox
Television Stations, Inc. The FCC upheld indecency findings under existing rules allowing fleeting
expletives to be actionable. The FCC concluded that a lack of repetition of the expletive weighs against
Answers to ‘Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations and Federal
Communications Commission v. ABC’ Questions (p. 361)
1. The Court found the FCC decision “arbitrary and capricious” in violation of the Administrative
Procedure Act. The Court was concerned that the FCC was changing its prior policy without sufficient
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The Commission’s change in direction was considered “entirely rational” in that the distinction
between literal and non-literal uses of the offensive words “made no sense” and requiring repetitive
use of non-literal words to find indecency likewise “made no sense.” The Commission was following
2. A decision is considered arbitrary and capricious when it is not based on reason, evidence and
3. This is an opinion based question. A recent Pew survey found that 75 percent of adults favor tighter
enforcement of broadcasting indecency rules. The Supreme Court majority opinion in FCC v. Fox did
not reach the First Amendment question associated with the case, but Justice Ginsburg raised the
issue in her dissent by contrasting the fleeting nature of the expletives in the Fox case to the George
4. The Times explained that nearly 90 percent of television viewers subscribe to cable or satellite
Answers to Parts One and Two Questions (p. 351)
1. This can be discussion based question. State panel’s decision of disqualifying Hale because of his
2.
a. Presumably, the city was concerned that ignoring this “nuisance” might open the door to other
more serious nuisances. They would have been concerned about aesthetics and safety.
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b. This is an opinion based question. A makeshift tree house was treated as a nuisance because it
3. This is a discussion based question. Efforts were made to reduce the role of government in big
portions of American life. Once tightly controlled industries, energy, transportation, and
4.
a. Southern Pacific’s claim resides in the Commerce Clause. The argument is that the Arizona
b. Southern Pacific prevailed. The court approved the arguments noted above and concluded that
5.
a. Defects in the harness resulting in the death of the woman from Connecticut shows that
parasailing operators do not maintain standards and are not subjected to stringent safety
b. One should understand that when the parasailing safety is left to the market the odds of the
Answers to Part Three Questions (p. 363)
1.
a. This can be a discussion based question. The agency ruling was that “In context, none of the
segments were patently offensive under contemporary community standards for the broadcast
b. This can be discussion based question.
2. This can be a discussion based question. Both Kia and Castrol pulled their ads. Kia pulled all its ads
on F/X, not just those that ran on The Shield. Student answers will vary.
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3. The Supreme Court held that 505 violated the Free Speech Clause because it was an attempt to
Answers to Chapter Questions (p. 373)
1. The Commerce Clause does not give the federal government the authority to regulate the
noncommercial cultivation and personal, medical use of marijuana that does not cross state lines. If
intrastate use of marijuana has a substantial effect on interstate commerce in marijuana than it would
2.
a. Government intervention in a free enterprise economy would be justified only when the market
is unable to serve the public interest that is, in instances of market failure. Market failure is
attributed to certain inherent imperfections in the market itself. The government not only targets
b. This is an opinion based question. The rules and regulation of either government or the free
market or both might not yield successful regulation. People tend to trust the one whose
c. For 30 years prior to the meltdown, the government gradually diminished its oversight of the
banking industry in an effort to allow the market a greater voice and to render American banks
One should also understand that regulation, particularly in the banking sector, is an increasingly
3.
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a. Advocates of legalizing and regulating Internet gambling point to the confusion in current law,
the inability to effectively enforce the law, personal freedom, one’s willingness to allow gambling
b. This is an opinion based question. Students’ answers will vary.
4.
a. Economic Freedom exists when individuals are free to work, produce, consume, and invest—
b. To measure a nation’s level of overall economic freedom one can include factors such as: Trade
c. A higher level of economic freedom is associated with a higher level of per capita Gross
5. Reich gives a number of examples of increased litigation—all of the tobacco lawsuits (from both
government and consumers), suits against gun manufacturers and companies supporting sweatshop
6.
a. Coaches might not support the idea of deregulating. The proposal for the reduction of the
current rules—allowing schools to make an unrestricted number of phone calls and texts to
recruits, allowing any staff member to contact recruits, and permitting schools to send unlimited
b. This is an opinion based question. Deregulation might result in unofficial and undocumented
favors to better players during the process of recruiting. It would also be difficult for the coaches
c. This is an opinion based question. In raising children of high school age, a mix of heavy rules
and lenience depending on the situations at a particular time would be a favourable parental
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approach.
7. Marriage is a private and personal affair. Regulation would be necessary when:
The married couple is getting divorced
8. The indirect cost of compliance. Meeting pollution requirements, job safety standards, EEOC
guidelines, and so on requires expenditures which are ordinarily passed on to the consumer via
9. Private litigation would certainly increase. Presumably the free market would replace former
10.
a. A portion of Schlesinger’s argument says:
The know-nothing crusade against government springs from a conviction that, if people
get government off their backs, their problems will solve themselves. But, far from
b. This can be a discussion based question. Schlesinger doesn’t think that people have much in
the way of economic fairness. He points to a study by Professor Edward N. Wolff indicating that
11. The “pure numbers” is one place to start. Between January 1990 and January 1992, U.S. nonfarm
12.
a. Objections that would arise due to the increased taxes on junk food include:
Nanny state diminishing personal freedom
Taxes being ineffective in achieving the desired goal
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Taxes hitting low income citizens the hardest
b. This is an opinion. According to a 2009 Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 55 percent of
c. A Department of Agriculture study found that reducing the price of fruits and vegetables by 10
13. On the one hand, cost-benefit analysis reduces health care costs. On the other hand, such analysis
14. Stiglitz pointed to the Internet as a government-initiated program that was kept alive in the Pentagon
until it caught on. That successful federal investment, Mr. Stiglitz contends, is the latest in a long
15. The FAA might allocate slots. Slots might be sold by the government. (Note that the richer carriers
16. This argument was made by James B. MacRae, Jr., of the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs about a proposed regulation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He
17. On one hand, tanning beds are hazardous, similar to drinking alcohol, and other activities in which
18. This is an opinion based question. Kristof said, “[G]uns are far more deadly in America, (then other
countries), not least because there are so many of them. There are about 85 guns per 100 people in
Supplementary Cases
I. Carbone v. Town of Clarkstown, 114 S.Ct. 1677 (1994) (See State and Local
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Regulation of Interstate Commerce, p. 342)
Syllabus
The New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation wanted Clarkstown to build a solid
waste transfer station that would separate recyclable from non-recyclable wastes. Clarkstown
negotiated with a local contractor to build and operate such a facility. The town guaranteed to the
contractor receipt of a minimum tonnage of waste per year (thus earning a minimum gross
revenue), with the town making up the deficit annually if the minimum tonnage was not received.
Then, to assure sufficient use of the facility, the town adopted an ordinance requiring all
nonhazardous solid waste within the town to be sent to the new facility. Carbone Inc. operated a
recycling center in Clarkstown. In order to avoid the use fee at the new facility, it shipped its
non-recyclable waste out of state. The town then sought a court order requiring Carbone to use
the new facility.
The Supreme Court held that the town’s ordinance did regulate interstate commerce, in part by
depriving out-of-state facilities access to the local market for waste disposal. The ordinance would
nevertheless be valid unless it failed either one of two tests: (1) whether the ordinance
discriminates against interstate commerce or (2) whether the ordinance imposes a burden that is
“clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits.” Because the ordinance failed the first
of these tests, it was unenforceable. Specifically, the “ordinance at issue here squelches
competition in the waste-processing service altogether, leaving no room for investment from
outside.”
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Gary S. Becker, “The Results Are In: Overregulation Kills Growth,” Business Week, June 22, 1987, p. 24.
Brent Bowers, “FDA Regulatory Tide Swallows Up McCurdy Fish Co.,” Wall Street Journal, May 18, 1993,
p. B2.
John Carey, “Snap, Crackle, Stop - States Crack Down on Misleading Food Claims,” Business Week,
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Jill Schachner Chanen, “Menu for Success,” ABA Journal, October 1998, p. 49.
Paul Stephen Dempsey, “The Disaster of Airline Deregulation,” The Wall Street Journal, May 9, 1991, p.
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Paul Stephen Dempsey, “Life Since Deregulation: It Means Paying Much More for Much Less,” The Des
Moines Register, December 30, 1987, p. 7A.
Paul Stephen Dempsey, “U.S. Airlines Are Ravaged by Deregulation,” Des Moines Register, December
26, 1990, p. 9A.
“Safety Labels for Cars?” Des Moines Register, July 5, 1996, p. 8A.
Jennifer Dukes, “Rules Cut Down on Number of Tanning Beds,” Waterloo Courier, June 10, 1992, p. C1.
Editorial, “Ads Target Teens; FDA Regulation of Tobacco Is Sorely Needed,” Columbus Dispatch, March 8,
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Editorial, “The Assault on Deregulation,” The Wall Street Journal, January 2, 1990, p. A6.
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1991, p. B2.
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1987, p. 4.
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21, 1999, Business Section, p. 4
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Wall Street Journal, April 19, 1990, p. B1.
Bill Richards, “Deregulation Raises Prices, Cuts Services in Many Rural Areas,” The Wall Street Journal,
October 5, 1987, p. 1.
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