Law & Ethics In The Business Environment

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ISBN: 9780324204902 | 0324204906
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This text provides balanced, in-depth coverage of controversial and timely topics in the areas of law and ethics within the businessenvironment. Its goal is to bring to life the complex situations where business imperatives, legal rules, and ethical concepts collide,and to give students the tools for and practice with making some of the tough ethical choices and decisions they may be confronted withas business managers.

Preface

Law, Ethics, Business: An Introduction

(30)

Freedom vs. Responsibility: A Duty to Rescue?

(10)

Yania v. Bigan (Pennsylvania, 1959)

(1)

Hurley v. Eddingfield (Indiana, 1901)

(1)

The Oath of Hippocrates

(2)

On Liberty

(1)

The Duty to Rescue: A Liberal-Communitarian Approach

(3)

Roger L. McClung v. Delta Square (Tennessee, 1996)

(3)

Ethical Decision Making: A Toolkit

(14)

The IBM Principles

(1)

A Primer of Feminist Theory and Tort

(3)

Chapter Problems

(2)

Chapter Project

(1)

Stakeholder Ethics Role Play

(2)

The Duty of Loyalty: Whistleblowing

(34)

Donn Milton, Dr., v. IIT Research Institute (Fourth Circuit, 1998)

(2)

Employment-at-Will

(12)

Pierce v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. (New Jersey, 1980)

(6)

Survey of Whistleblowers Finds Retaliation but Few Regrets

(1)

Wrongful Discharge from Employment Act

(2)

The Question of Loyalty

(7)

Just Pucker and Blow: An Analysis of Corporate Whistleblowers

(6)

Public Employees and Freedom of Speech

(1)

Corporate Governance and the Gatekeepers

(6)

Understanding Enron: ``It's About the Gatekeepers, Stupid''

(5)

Chapter Problems

(4)

Chapter Project

(1)

Enron Stakeholder Role Play

(1)

Privacy and Technology

(38)

Surveillance at Work

(4)

Michael A. Smyth v. The Pillsbury Company (United States District Court, 1996)

(4)

The Value of Privacy

(4)

The Functions of Privacy

(4)

Alan Westin

Lifestyle Control

(3)

State of New York v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (N.Y. App. Div., 1995)

(2)

Testing

(4)

Soroka v. Dayton Hudson Corporation (California, 1991)

(4)

Consumer Privacy

(3)

Timothy v. Chase Manhattan Bank (New York, 2002)

(2)

Privacy Under the Constitution

(1)

Counter-Terrorism: Security vs. Privacy

(3)

Spying for Fun and Profit

(2)

Privacy in Medical Information

(8)

Norman-Bloodsaw v. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Ninth Circuit, 1997)

(3)

Brave New Workplace: Genetic Breakthroughs and the New Employment Discrimination

(4)

Chapter Problems

(4)

Chapter Project

100

(1)

Mock Trial

100

(3)

Valuing Diversity: Discrimination, Accommodation, and Affirmative Action

103

(42)

Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (Massachusetts, 2003)

104

(3)

Equal Protection

107

(6)

Back v. Hastings On Hudson Union Free School (Second Circuit, 2004)

109

(2)

Beyond the Glass Ceiling: The Maternal Wall as a Barrier to Gender Equality

111

(2)

Joan C. Williams

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

113

(9)

Oiler v. Winn-Dixie Louisiana, Inc. (Louisiana, 2002)

114

(4)

Bibby v. Phila. Coca Cola Bottling Company (Third Circuit, 2001)

118

(2)

The Sanitized Workplace

120

(2)

Vicki Schultz

Reasonable Accommodation of Disabled Workers

122

(2)

Equal Opportunity for Individuals with Disabilities (Americans with Disabilities Act)

123

(1)

Affirmative Action

124

(10)

Gratz v. Bollinger (United States, 2003)

127

(3)

Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference

130

(1)

Two Views of the River: A Critique of the Liberal Defense of Affirmative Action

131

(3)

Charles R. Lawrence III

Families and Work

134

(3)

Family and Medical Leave Act

136

(1)

International Perspectives

137

(4)

Policies That Make Work More Family Friendly, Economic Policy Institute

138

(1)

Unbending Gender: Market Work and Family Work in the 21st Century

139

(2)

Joan C. Williams

Chapter Problems

141

(2)

Chapter Project

143

(1)

Alternative Dispute Resolution: Accommodating Parents

143

(2)

Workers Rights as Human Rights: Health and Safety in the Workplace

145

(37)

Workers' Compensation

145

(4)

Delgado v. Phelps Dodge Chino, Inc. (New Mexico, 2001)

146

(3)

Risk in the Workplace

149

(6)

Achieving Environmental Justice: The Role of Occupational Health

150

(2)

George Friedman-Jiminez

Echazabal v. Chevron USA, Inc. (Ninth Circuit, 2000)

152

(3)

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

155

(9)

Irving v. United States (First Circuit, 1998)

158

(2)

Grading the Government

160

(4)

Richard W. Parker

Safety Concerns in the Global Economy

164

(13)

Kasky v. Nike (California, 2000)

165

(3)

Leveling the Playing Field for Developing-Country Workers, Claire Moore Dickerson

168

(2)

The Perils and Promises of Transnational Labor Solidarity

170

(2)

James Atleson

Slavery: Alive and Thriving in the World Today

172

(3)

Kevin Bayles

Exporting Hazards

175

(2)

Henry Shue

Chapter Problems

177

(4)

Chapter Project

181

(1)

Evaluating Workplace Health and Safety

181

(1)

Justice and a Sustainable Economy: Environmental Protection

182

(40)

Environmental Equity

182

(7)

South Camden Citizens v. New Jersey DEP (New Jersey, 2001)

183

(6)

Environmental Protection Strategies

189

(12)

Bill Moyers Interview of Hunter Lovins

192

(2)

Dirty Secrets

194

(6)

Shareholder Resolution on Climate Change

200

(1)

Environmental Philosophy

201

(8)

Second Treatise of Government

202

(2)

A Sand County Almanac

204

(2)

Why I am Not an Environmentalist

206

(3)

Private Property, Regulation, and the Constitution

209

(6)

Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (United States, 1992)

210

(5)

Globalization, Fairness and the Environment

215

(3)

The Myths of Globalization Exposed: Advancing toward Living Democracy

215

(3)

Chapter Problems

218

(3)

Chapter Project

221

(1)

Business Ethics Fairy Tales

221

(1)

Marketing and Information: Advertising

222

(39)

Commercial Speech

223

(5)

Hornell Brewing Co., Inc. v. Brady (New York, 1993)

223

(5)

Advertising and Economics

228

(3)

The Dependence Effect

228

(3)

Federal vs. Industry Self-Regulation

231

(10)

FTC v. Silueta Distributors, Inc. and Stanley Klavir (California, 1995)

233

(3)

Pharmacia Corporation v. GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (D. New Jersey, 2003)

236

(5)

Market Manipulation

241

(8)

A Case Study in Market Manipulation: The Tobacco Industry

241

(5)

Saray Perez v. Wyeth Laboratories Inc. (New Jersey, 1999)

246

(3)

Fighting Spam

249

(3)

Anti-Spam Measures

250

(2)

The Branding of Culture

252

(4)

No Logo

252

(4)

Chapter Problems

256

(3)

Chapter Project

259

(1)

Legislative Hearing: Hard Liquor Advertising on Network Television

259

(2)

Risk Allocation: Products Liability

261

(41)

Unsafe Products

262

(10)

Green v. Smith & Nephew AHP, Inc. (Wisconsin, 2001)

262

(7)

Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company (Fourth District, 1981)

269

(3)

The Debate Over Tort Reform

272

(5)

Firestone/Ford Makes the Case for the Tort System, Fred Baron

272

(1)

A Proposal for Federal Product Liability Reform

273

(4)

Victor E. Schwartz

Mark A. Behrens

The Uniform Commercial Code

277

(5)

Denny v. Ford Motor Company (New York, 1995)

277

(3)

Transport Corporation of American v. IBM (Eighth Circuit, 1994)

280

(2)

Government Regulation of Product Safety

282

(7)

Wood v. Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Division of American Home (Kentucky, 2002)

286

(3)

Manufacturer Liability for Consumer Uses

289

(2)

Foister v. Purdue Pharma, L.P. (Kentucky, 2003)

289

(2)

Enterprise Liability

291

(4)

Enforcing the Social Compact Through Representative Litigation

292

(3)

Elizabeth Carbraser

Global Perspectives

295

(3)

Are the Clinical HIV Vaccine Trials in Africa Unjust?

295

(3)

Ruquaijah Yearby

Chapter Problems

298

(2)

Chapter Project

300

(1)

Mock: Legislative Hearing: Dietary Supplements

300

(2)

Ownership and Creativity: Intellectual Property

302

(39)

303

(7)

In re: Aimster Copyright Litigation Appeal of: John Deep, Defendant (Seventh Circuit, 2003)

304

(3)

Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain, Negativland

307

(3)

Traditional Copyright Law

310

(17)

MasterCard International Incorporated v. Nader 2000 Primary Committee, Inc. (U.S. District Court, 2004)

312

(2)

Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Eric Corley (Second Circuit, 2001)

314

(3)

Recovering Collectivity, Angela Riley

317

(4)

The Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig

321

(2)

White v. Samsung and Deutsch Associates (Ninth Circuit, 1992)

323

(4)

Global Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

327

(8)

Trade Secrets: Protecting Indigenous Ethnobiological (Medicinal) Knowledge

328

(5)

Gelvina Rodriguez Stevenson

The Structural Power of Strong Pharmaceutical Patent Protection

333

(2)

James Thuo Gathii

Chapter Problems

335

(4)

Chapter Project

339

(1)

Ethics Roundtable: Protecting Collective Property

339

(2)

Appendices

341

(16)

A: Evaluating Internet Sources

341

(2)

B: An Introduction to Legal Research

343

(5)

C: Stakeholder Ethics Role Play

348

(2)

D: Mock Trial Materials

350

(3)

E: Alternative Dispute Resolution

353

(2)

F: Legislative Hearing

355

(2)

Glossary

357

(10)

Index

367

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