Cengage Advantage Books: Essentials of the Legal Environment (3rd Edition)
Roger LeRoy Miller, Gaylord A. Jentz, Frank B. Cross
Language: English
Pages: 646
ISBN: B01N8YBZ4L
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Get your money's worth with ESSENTIALS OF THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT! This affordable text offers complete one-semester coverage of business law and its environment in a non-technical, straightforward, and engaging style. Authors Miller, Cross, and Jentz explain legal issues and court decisions in a way that pares down legal jargon while still conveying what you need to know to succeed in your course and in the legal environment.
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Government in the Sunshine Act Congress passed the Government in the Sunshine Act,13 or open meeting law, in 1976. It requires that “every portion of every meeting of an agency” be open to “public observation.” The act also requires procedures to ensure that the public is provided with adequate advance notice of the agency’s scheduled meeting and agenda. Like the FOIA, the Sunshine Act contains certain exceptions. Closed meetings are permitted when (1) the subject of the meeting concerns accusing.
BSH gave specifications for its burner to Detroit Radiant Products Co. and requested a price for 30,000 units. Detroit quoted $28.25 per unit, offering to absorb all tooling and research and development costs. In 2001 and 2003, BSH sent Detroit two purchase orders, for 15,000 and 16,000 units, respectively. In 2004, after Detroit had shipped 12,886 units, BSH stopped scheduling deliveries. Detroit filed a suit against BSH, alleging breach of contract. BSH argued, in part, that the second purchase.
Courtrooms. In 2008, a Muslim woman was prevented from entering a Georgia courthouse because she refused to remove her scarf. As she left, she uttered an expletive at the court official and was arrested and brought before the judge, who ordered her to serve ten days in jail. Similar incidents have occurred in other states. According to the United States Supreme Court, the free exercise clause protects the use of a controlled substance in a sincere religious practice. The case involved a religious.
An important government objective is preventing illegitimate teenage pregnancies. Because males and females are not similarly situated in this circumstance—only females can become pregnant—a law that punishes men but not women for statutory rape will be upheld. Suppose, however, that a state law requires illegitimate children to file a paternity action within six years of their birth in order to seek support from their biological fathers. This law will fail if legitimate children can seek support.
When Congress enacted the Clean Air Act (to be discussed in Chapter 17) in 1963, it provided only general directions for the prevention of air pollution. The specific pollution-control requirements imposed on business are almost entirely the product of decisions made by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which was created in 1970. Moreover, the EPA works with parallel environmental agencies at the state level to analyze existing data and determine the appropriate pollution-control.