BUS 206 SOPHIA BUSINESS LAW MILESTONE 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
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23 questions were answered correctly.
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Select the case that is under the subject matter jurisdiction of a s
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BUS 206 SOPHIA BUSINESS LAW MILESTONE 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
You passed this Milestone
23 questions were answered correctly.
1
Select the case that is under the subject matter jurisdiction of a state court.
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A case involving navigation in Puget Sound
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A suit between two states
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A paternity suit
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A dispute over a copyright
CONCEPT
Subject Matter Jurisdiction
2
Pharmaceutical Company Z received government approval for a medicine that lowers high blood pressure. Over time, however, the company realizes that the drug causes tremors in a small number of people who use it. In deciding how to proceed, the company identifies a range of stakeholders, including corporate shareholders, consumers, physicians, the government, and society as a whole, and comes up with several possible courses of action.
According to the Josephson's core values model for ethical decision-making, what should Company Z do next?
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Try to determine which core values are most important to the company.
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Evaluate the impact of each possible course of action on each of the various stakeholders.
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Try to determine which course of action will best protect the company in the short-term.
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Evaluate which course of action will provide the greatest benefit to the corporate shareholders, to whom the company has the greatest obligation.
CONCEPT
An Ethical Decision Model
3
Select the example in which a corporation is making use of a safe harbor provision.
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A corporation that operates a chain of restaurants establishes an ethics hotline so that employees can report legal or company policy violations to the corporate office to reduce
liability.
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A corporation that hosts user-uploaded videos online reports a copyright infringement to federal authorities and removes the copyrighted video from its website in order to reduce
liability.
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A corporation that manufactures commercial exercise equipment establishes a thorough inspection process to ensure compliance with safety standards to reduce liability.
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A software corporation promotes a whistleblower who exposed patent violations within the company.
CONCEPT
Minimizing Corporate Criminal Liability
4
State governments have jurisdiction over .
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individual rights, but not public law
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any areas of law not specifically reserved to the federal government
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only the areas of law explicitly given to them by the U.S. Constitution
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the exact same areas of law as the federal government
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