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Law and Ethics in the Business Environment

ISBN: 9780324204902 | 0324204906
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 4/28/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
This text provides balanced, in-depth coverage of controversial and timely topics in the areas of law and ethics within the business environment. 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 with as business managers.
Prefaceix
Law, Ethics, Business: An Introduction
1(30)
Freedom vs. Responsibility: A Duty to Rescue?
3(10)
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Yania v. Bigan (Pennsylvania, 1959)
3(1)
Hurley v. Eddingfield (Indiana, 1901)
4(1)
The Oath of Hippocrates
4(2)
On Liberty
6(1)
The Duty to Rescue: A Liberal-Communitarian Approach
7(3)
Roger L. McClung v. Delta Square (Tennessee, 1996)
10(3)
Ethical Decision Making: A Toolkit
13(14)
The IBM Principles
23(1)
A Primer of Feminist Theory and Tort
24(3)
Chapter Problems
27(2)
Chapter Project
29(1)
Stakeholder Ethics Role Play
29(2)
The Duty of Loyalty: Whistleblowing
31(34)
Donn Milton, Dr., v. IIT Research Institute (Fourth Circuit, 1998)
32(2)
Employment-at-Will
34(12)
Pierce v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. (New Jersey, 1980)
37(6)
Survey of Whistleblowers Finds Retaliation but Few Regrets
43(1)
Wrongful Discharge from Employment Act
44(2)
The Question of Loyalty
46(7)
Just Pucker and Blow: An Analysis of Corporate Whistleblowers
47(6)
Public Employees and Freedom of Speech
53(1)
Corporate Governance and the Gatekeepers
54(6)
Understanding Enron: ``It's About the Gatekeepers, Stupid''
55(5)
Chapter Problems
60(4)
Chapter Project
64(1)
Enron Stakeholder Role Play
64(1)
Privacy and Technology
65(38)
Surveillance at Work
66(4)
Michael A. Smyth v. The Pillsbury Company (United States District Court, 1996)
66(4)
The Value of Privacy
70(4)
The Functions of Privacy
70(4)
Alan Westin
Lifestyle Control
74(3)
State of New York v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (N.Y. App. Div., 1995)
75(2)
Testing
77(4)
Soroka v. Dayton Hudson Corporation (California, 1991)
77(4)
Consumer Privacy
81(3)
Timothy v. Chase Manhattan Bank (New York, 2002)
82(2)
Privacy Under the Constitution
84(1)
Counter-Terrorism: Security vs. Privacy
85(3)
Spying for Fun and Profit
86(2)
Privacy in Medical Information
88(8)
Norman-Bloodsaw v. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Ninth Circuit, 1997)
89(3)
Brave New Workplace: Genetic Breakthroughs and the New Employment Discrimination
92(4)
Chapter Problems
96(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)
Copyright Law
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)
Glossary357(10)
Index367

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