Law & Courts
(Ch. 1–2)
(Ch. 1–2)
This type of law is created by agencies like the FDA or EPA through rules and regulations.
Administrative law
This ethical lens says the best choice creates the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Utilitarianism
This antitrust law bans price-fixing and monopolies.
The Sherman Act
Intentionally touching someone in a harmful or offensive way without their consent.
Battery
This protects original creative works like songs, books, and photos.
Copyright
This kind of court reviews a trial court's decision for legal errors but does not hear new evidence or witnesses
An appellate court
When a federal law and a state law conflict, this principle says the federal law wins.
Federal supremacy
Forcing customers to buy a second product in order to get the first one.
Tying
A manager charges at an employee with his fist clenched but never touches her.
Assault
A tax a country charges on goods coming into the country.
A tariff
A court orders a concert venue to stop playing music after 11 p.m. instead of paying the neighbors money. Is this a remedy at law or in equity?
Equity (the court ordered someone to stop doing something; remedies at law are money)
Gift-giving to a business partner is expected in one country but could look like a bribe in another. Which ethical lens says what's ethical depends on culture?
Moral relativism
Big pie companies sold pies cheaper in Utah than everywhere else to crush a local pie company. What illegal practice is this?
Price discrimination
A drug dealer runs his cash through a car wash so it looks like normal business income. What crime is this?
Money laundering
A man registered panavision.com before Panavision did, then offered to sell it to the company for $13,000. What is this called?
Cybersquatting
To start a lawsuit, the plaintiff files this document, and the defendant responds with this one. (Two answers required)
The complaint, then the answer
A town passes a zoning law keeping factories out of neighborhoods. Which state power allows this?
Police power
The law Congress passes to create an agency and list what it is allowed to do.
The enabling act
For over 20 years, FIFA officials took bribes in a scheme run inside their organization. Which crime is this and why?
Racketeering; it was a pattern of repeated crimes run through an organization, not a single act.
This U.S. law makes it illegal for U.S. companies to bribe foreign government officials to win business.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
The state prosecutes a shoplifter, and the store also sues her for the value of what she took. Which case is criminal, which is civil, and who brings each?
The prosecution is criminal, brought by the government. The store's lawsuit is civil, brought by the store.
A farmer grew wheat only for his own farm, but the Supreme Court said Congress could still regulate it. Name the case and the part of the Constitution that gave Congress this power.
Wickard v. Filburn; the Commerce Clause
Name the three powers an administrative agency holds and give an example of each.
Legislative (writing rules), executive (enforcing and investigating), judicial (holding hearings and issuing fines)
Name all four elements a person must prove to win a negligence case.
Duty, breach, causation, damages
Coca-Cola protects its formula as a trade secret instead of with a patent. Why might Coke prefer this?
A patent expires after about 20 years and makes the invention public. A trade secret lasts as long as it stays secret.