Governmental Protection
Protection Against Inferior Services
Protection from Unfair Trade Practices
Product Liability
Wild Card
100
An individual who acquires goods that are intended primarily for personal, family, or household use.
What is a consumer
100
Protection of consumers by the government requiring certain sectors to obtain one before they can legally operate a business.............
What is requiring suppliers of consumer services to receive license and pass inspections when they provide such services as health, education, legal, financial, construction workers, etc.
100
This act is designed to prevent unfair trade practices in business conducted between or among two or more states (interstate commerce)
What is the Federal Trade Commission Act
100
The affixing of responsibility to compensate buyers, users, and those standing near by for injuries caused by a defective product.
What is product liability
100
Who can bring suit for product liability under the UCC?
What is all injured persons in the buyer's family, household, and their guests.
200
An order requiring the company to stop a specified conduct.
What is a cease and desist order
200
This act was enacted in 1972 to create the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and gave the CPSC authority to issue and enforce safety standards for most consumer products.
What is the Consumer Product Safety Act
200
When a store uses an under-stocked, low-priced gimmick to lure prospective buyers into a store.
What is "bait and switch".
300
A law suit filed by a group that allows one or several persons to sue not only on behalf of themselves, but also on behalf of many others similarly wronged.
What is a class action law suit
300
This commission is required to give hospitals a report on products that cause injuries to consumers
What is the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission)
300
Any method of business that is dishonest or fraudulent or that illegally limits free competition.
What are unfair trade practices
300
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What is Ms. Walter
300
An unauthorized use of a product
What is infringement
400
A voluntary, court-enforceable agreement to stop an illegal or questionable-practice.
What is a consent order
400
This federal agency requires that the production facilities for cosmetics, food, and drugs be clean.
What is the FDA (Food, Drug Administration)
400
When a company makes untrue claims of quality or effectiveness of a product or service.
What is false and misleading advertising
400
A warranty that obligates the seller to repair or replace the defective product with only a labor cost to the buyer is still a full warranty.
What is False
400
The tort that could be the basis for a product liability suit
What is Strict Liability
500
Today, any seller who has deceived a consumer while contracting may be sued by the individual consumer as well as be subject to charges by a government agency. These actions have led to led to the phrase.....
What is caveat venditor (or let the seller beware)
500
This division promotes uniformity in U.S. weights and measures laws, regulations, and standards.
What is the Weights and Measures Division of the National Institute off Standards and Technology
500
This is the force that drives efficient business to create new and better products and services.
What is "competition"
500
An express warranty may be given orally and still be legally effective.
What is TRUE
500
A claim of a third party
What is encumbrance
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