Law and Ethics in the Business Environment

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The unique flexibility of this text makes this an excellent supplement to any standard business law and legal environment text, or as the primary text for an advanced ethics or issues-oriented course. Introducing issues via specific legal cases, it provides balanced, in-depth coverage of controversial and timely topics in the areas of law and ethics within the business environment.

Law, Ethics and Business: An Introduction

(33)

A Duty to Rescue?

(11)

Yania v. Bigan (Pennyslvania, 1959)

(2)

Hurley v. Eddingfield (Indiana, 1901)

(1)

The Oath of Hippocrates

(1)

Justifying the ``No Duty To Rescue'' Rule

(2)

Radical Change?

(1)

The Duty to Rescue, Steven J. Heyman

(3)

Exceptions to the Rule

(1)

Business Liability for Rescue and Protection

(1)

Butler v. Acme Markets, Inc. (New Jersey, 1981)

(2)

Law, Ethics, Promises

(6)

Township of Ypsilanti v. General Motors (Michigan, 1993)

(4)

Traditional Business Values

(1)

Making an Ethical Decision

(9)

Utilitarianism: Assessing Consequences

(2)

Deontology: Rights and Duties

(1)

Virtue Ethics: Habits of Goodness

(2)

Ethic of Care

(1)

Feminist Theory and Tort, Leslie Bender

(3)

Why Ethical Theory?

(1)

The Moral Imagination

(1)

Chapter Problems

(3)

Chapter Project

(2)

Stakeholder Ethics Role Play: Desperate Air

(1)

The Duty of Loyalty: Whistleblowing

(40)

Voicing Dissent

(17)

Milton v. ITT Research Institute (Fourth Cir., 1998)

(3)

The Legal Context: Employment at Will

(1)

Exceptions to the Rule

(2)

Professional Code of Ethics

(1)

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

(6)

Statistics on Whistleblowers

(1)

Survey Finds Retaliation, Few Regrets, C.H. Farnsworth

(1)

The Informant: No Angel

(1)

Montana's Wrongful Discharge Statute

(1)

Wrongful Discharge from Employment Act

(2)

United States: The Outlier

(1)

The Question of Loyalty

(6)

The ``Common Enterprise''

(1)

NLRB v. Electrical Workers (United States, 1953)

(1)

Loyalty: A Two Way Street?

(1)

Interview of Larry Ross, Studs Terkel

(1)

Study: Ethics and Loyalty

(1)

Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty, Ronald Duska

(2)

Public Employees and Freedom of Speech

(4)

Lytle v. Haysville, Kansas (Tenth Cir., 1998)

(3)

Communications Within the Corporation

(3)

The Enron Story

(1)

Audacious Climb to Success Ended in Dizzying Plunge, Kurt Eichenwald

(2)

Chapter Problems

(6)

Chapter Project

(3)

Mock Trial: Cleary v. U.S. Steel

(3)

Privacy & Technology: Electronic Monitoring

(44)

Workplace Surveillance

(7)

Smyth v. The Pillsbury Company (D.Ct. Pennsylvania, 1996)

(4)

Electronic Surveillance: The Debate

(1)

Electronic Surveillance: The Law

(1)

The Value of Privacy

(4)

The Functions of Privacy, Alan Westin

(4)

Industry Response to Privacy Issues

(1)

The Traditional Expectation

(1)

Simpson v. Unemployment Compensation Board (Pennsylvania, 1982)

(1)

Lifestyle Control

(4)

New York v. Wal-Mart Stores (New York, 1995)

(2)

Testing

(1)

Soroka v. Dayton Hudson Corp. (California, 1991)

(5)

Consumer Privacy

(8)

Dwyer v. American Express Co. (Illinois, 1995)

(1)

Levi's Biometrics

(1)

A National Identity Card?

(2)

Privacy in the Digital Age, Jerry Berman & Deirdre Mulligan

(3)

Protecting Online Privacy

102

(1)

Privacy in Medical Information

102

(9)

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

103

(6)

The New Enemy of Privacy, Amitai Etzioni

109

(2)

Chapter Problems

111

(3)

Chapter Project

114

(3)

Mock Trial: Kurtz v. Greengenes

114

(3)

Valuing Diversity: Affirmative Action & Sexual Harassment

117

(44)

Affirmative Action

117

(17)

Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara Co. (United States, 1987)

118

(2)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

120

(2)

Color at Century's End

122

(1)

Equal Protection

122

(2)

Hopwood v. Texas (Fifth Cir. 1996)

124

(2)

Gratz v. Bollinger (D.Ct. Michigan, 2000)

126

(2)

Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference, Shelby Steele

128

(2)

Two Views of the River, Charles R. Lawrence III

130

(4)

Sexual Harassment

134

(11)

Highlights of the Evolving Laws of Sexual Harassment

134

(1)

Hostile Environment

135

(2)

Ellison v. Brady (Ninth Cir., 1991)

137

(2)

Williams v. General Motors Corp. (Sixth Cir., 1999)

139

(3)

Same-sex Harassment

142

(1)

Nichols v. Azteca Restaurant Enterprises, Inc. (Ninth Cir., 2001)

143

(2)

Families and Work

145

(7)

Legislating Family Leave

145

(1)

Family and Medical Leave Act

146

(2)

International Perspectives

148

(1)

Policies that Make Work More Family Friendly, Economic Policy Institute

148

(2)

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

150

(2)

Reasonable Accommodation of Disabled Workers

152

(4)

Americans With Disabilities Act

152

(1)

Toyota Motors Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams (United States, 2002)

153

(3)

Chapter Problems

156

(3)

Chapter Project

159

(2)

Alternative Dispute Resolution: Accommodating Parents

159

(2)

Government Regulation: Workplace Safety

161

(38)

Workers' Compensation

162

(6)

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

163

(4)

Asbestos

167

(1)

Risk in the Workplace

168

(7)

Statement of Member Shipbuilders Local 5, Quincy, Massachusetts, Charley Richardson

168

(1)

A Review of Some Normative and Conceptual Issues in Occupational Safety and Health, Mark McCarthy

169

(1)

Achieving Environmental Justice: The Role of Occupational Health, George Friedman-Jimenez

170

(2)

Echazabal v. Chevron USA (Ninth Cir., 2000)

172

(3)

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

175

(6)

OSHA Today

175

(3)

Irving v. United States (First Cir., 1998)

178

(3)

Corporate Criminal Liability

181

(1)

Fire Deaths: 1911, 1991, 2001

181

(1)

Safety Concerns in the Global Economy

182

(12)

The International Battle Against Sweatshop Labor

182

(1)

Kasky v. Nike (California, 2000)

183

(3)

Transnational Codes of Conduct Through Dialogue, Claire Moore Dickerson

186

(3)

Dow Chemical Co. and Shell Oil Co. v. Domingo Castro Alfaro (Texas, 1990)

189

(3)

Exporting Hazards, Henry Shue

192

(2)

Chapter Problems

194

(2)

Chapter Project

196

(3)

Summit: Workplace Safety in the Information Age

196

(3)

Justice and a Sustainable Economy: Environmental Protection

199

(48)

Environmental Equity

199

(9)

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

200

(8)

Environmental Protection: The Legal Context

208

(6)

Statutory Law

208

(1)

National Air Quality Update

209

(1)

Moving Toward Market-Based Incentives

210

(1)

Regulatory Puzzles

211

(1)

Green Capitalism

212

(1)

Bill Moyers Interview of Hunter Lovins

212

(2)

Biodiversity vs. Property Rights

214

(6)

Loggerhead Turtles v. Volusia County, Florida (D.Ct. Florida, 1995)

216

(4)

Environmental Philosophy

220

(7)

Second Treatise on Government, John Locke

220

(2)

Deep Ecology

222

(1)

A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

223

(2)

Free Market Ideology

225

(1)

Why I am Not an Environmentalist, Steven E. Landsburg

225

(2)

Common Law Approach

227

(3)

Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Company (New York, 1970)

227

(3)

Private Property, Environmental Regulation, and the Constitution

230

(6)

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

231

(5)

Global Issues

236

(1)

International Law: North vs. South

236

(1)

International Environmental Law: Boundaries, Landmarks, and Realities, Lakshman Guruswamy

237

(4)

U.S. Environmental Ranking Worldwide: #51

241

(1)

Chapter Problems

241

(2)

Chapter Project

243

(4)

Debate: A Civil Action: Was Justice Served?

243

(4)

Marketing and Information: Advertising

247

(44)

Commercial Speech

248

(5)

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

248

(5)

Advertising and Economics

253

(5)

The Dependence Effect, John Kenneth Galbraith

254

(4)

Federal Regulation

258

(7)

Federal Trade Commission

258

(1)

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

259

(3)

Targeting the Marketing of Violence

262

(1)

Lanham Act

263

(1)

Industry Self-Regulation

263

(1)

Standards of Practice, American Advertising Agencies

264

(1)

Market Manipulation

265

(5)

The Tobacco Story

265

(1)

A Case Study in Market Manipulation: The Tobacco Industry, Jon D. Hanson and Douglas A. Kysar

266

(4)

Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising

270

(6)

Perez v. Wyeth Laboratories (New Jersey, 1999)

271

(5)

Global Issues: Marketing on the Internet

276

(1)

Marketing in Kidspace

276

(4)

The Selling of the Clickerati, Bob Thompson

277

(3)

The Branding of Culture

280

(5)

No Logo, Naomi Klein

281

(4)

Chapter Problems

285

(4)

Chapter Project

289

(2)

Legislative Hearing: Hard Liquor Advertising on Network TV

289

(2)

Risk Allocation: Products Liability

291

(46)

Unsafe Products

292

(11)

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

292

(4)

Breach of Warranty, Negligence, and Strict Liability in Tort

296

(2)

Restatement of Torts (Second)

298

(1)

Punitive Damages

299

(1)

Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company (California, 1981)

299

(4)

The Debate Over Tort Reform

303

(4)

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

303

(1)

A Proposal for Federal Product Liability Reform, Victor E. Schwartz & Mark A. Behrens

304

(3)

The Uniform Commercial Code

307

(9)

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

308

(4)

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

312

(1)

Economic Loss Doctrine

313

(1)

Staton Hills Winery Company Ltd. v. Collons (Washington, 1999)

314

(2)

Government Regulation of Product Safety

316

(2)

Food and Drug Administration

316

(1)

Regulating the Internet Pharmacy

317

(1)

Environmental Protection Agency

317

(1)

Consumer Product Safety Commission

317

(1)

Consumer Demand for Dangerous Products

318

(2)

Wilks v. American Tobacco Co. (Mississippi, 1993)

318

(2)

Manufacturer Liability for Consumer Uses

320

(3)

Richardson v. Holland (Missouri, 1987)

320

(3)

Enterprise Liability

323

(4)

Lead Paint

323

(1)

Enforcing the Social Compact Through Representative Litigation, Elizabeth J. Cabraser

324

(3)

Global Perspective

327

(2)

Product Liability in the European Community, Sandra N. Hurd & Frances E. Zollers

327

(2)

Communication, Marketing, and Product Safety

329

(3)

Which Came First, The Irrational Consumer or the Irrational Corporation? Angelo DeNisi & Raed Elayd

329

(3)

Chapter Problems

332

(2)

Chapter Project

334

(3)

Mock Legislative Hearing: Gun Control

334

(3)

Ownership and Creativity: Intellectual Property

337

(56)

337

(22)

Fair Use

338

(1)

Suntrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Company (Eleventh Cir., 2001)

338

(4)

Traditional Copyright Law

342

(1)

342

(1)

The Story of Napster

343

(1)

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

344

(4)

The Economy of Ideas, John Perry Barlow

348

(4)

Joint Copyright and Collective Rights

352

(1)

New York Times Co., Inc. v. Tasini (United States, 2001)

352

(3)

Recovering Collectivity, Angela R. Riley

355

(4)

Beyond Copyright Law: Patent Law, Trade Secret, and Misappropriation

359

(6)

White v. Samsung and Deutsch, Associates (Ninth Cir. 1995)

360

(5)

Global Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

365

(7)

Highlights in the Development of International IPR

365

(1)

Trade Secrets: Protecting Indigenous Ethnobiological (Medicinal) Knowledge, Gelvina Rodriguez Stevenson

366

(4)

Promoting Access to HIV/AIDS Pharmaceuticals, Mary K. Schug

370

(2)

Chapter Problems

372

(4)

Chapter Project

376

(3)

Ethics Roundtable: Protecting Collective Property

376

(3)

Appendices

A. Stakeholder Ethics Role-play

379

(1)

B. Mock Trial Materials

380

(3)

C. An Introduction to Legal Research

383

(8)

D. Evaluating Information from the Internet

391

(2)

Glossary

393

(12)

Index

405

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