Roundtable Viewpoints: Business Law

by Browne, M. Neil; Kubasek, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780073527291
• ISBN10: 0073527297
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-28
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

Summary

ROUNDTABLE VIEWPOINTS: BUSINESS LAW offers varying perspectives on important issues and provides readers with balanced and fair coverage of a topic to form their own opinion or to support their research. This reader is designed to address a number of different issues regarding business law. Each issue question is relevant to the topic and guides readers through the readings. The controversy and different views among the captivating readings is readily apparent to the reader and stimulates discussion. The 3-5 selections per issue are current, culled from a variety of sources, and relate to the most popular issues surrounding the topic. In addition to the issue questions and selections, ROUNDTABLE VIEWPOINTS: BUSINESS LAW includes an issue introduction; summary/overview; highlights; critical thinking; challenge questions; and additional reading and/or websites.

Table of Contents

Issue 1n++n++n++n++Are Courts Strangling Businesses with Tort Suits?n++n++1 n++n++1.1n++n++Jan M. Ambrose and Anne Carroll

from n++Medical Malpractice Reform and Insurer Claims Defense: Unintended Effects?n++Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law(October 2007)n++n++4 n++n++1.2n++n++Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd

from n++Tort Reform and Accidental Deaths,n++Journal of Law and Economics(May 2007)n++n++17 n++n++1.3n++n++W. Kip Viscusi

from n++Tort Reform and Insurance Markets,n++Risk Management & Insurance Review(vol. 9, 2004)n++n++26 n++n++1.4n++n++Edith Greene, David Coon, and Brian Bornstein

from n++The Effects of Limiting Punitive Damage Awards,n++ Law & Human Behavior (June 2001)n++n++38 n++n++1.5n++n++State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell et al., U.S. Supreme Court (2003)n++n++50Issue 2n++n++n++n++Should An Employee Be Able to Be Fired for Any Reason?n++n++65 n++n++2.1n++n++n++How At-Will Employment Is Changing,n++HR Focus(October 2007)n++n++68 n++n++2.2n++n++Julie Jones

from n++Give a Little Whistle: The Need for a More Broad Interpretation of the Whistleblower Exception to the Employment-at-Will Doctrine,n++Texas Tech Law Review(vol. 34, 2003)n++n++73 n++n++2.3n++n++Nancy Baumgarten

from n++Sometimes the Road Less Traveled Is Less Traveled for a Reason: The Need for Change in Georgian++s Employment-at-Will Doctrine and Refusal to Adopt the Public Policy Exception,n++Georgia Law Review(vol. 35, 2001)n++n++86 n++n++2.4n++n++Frank Scialdone

from n++Sexual Orientation-Based Workplace Discrimination: Carving a Public Policy Exception to Ohion++s At-Will Employment Doctrine,n++Law & Sexuality(vol. 11, 2002)n++n++96 n++n++2.5n++n++Katy Rand

from n++Employment at Will in Maine: RIP?n++Maine Bar Journal(vol. 22, 2007)n++n++105Issue 3n++n++n++n++To What Extent Should the Board of Directors Be Free to Make Business Decisions?n++n++120 n++n++3.1n++n++Douglas M. Branson

from n++The Indiana Supreme Court Lecture: The Rule That Isnn++t a Rulen++The Business Judgment Rule,n++n++Valparaiso University Law Review(Summer 2002)n++n++123 n++n++3.2n++n++Denise Ping Lee

from n++The Business Judgment Rule: Should It Protect Nonprofi t Directors?n++Columbia Law Review(May 2003)n++n++133 n++n++3.3n++n++Stuart K. Patrick v. Herbert Allen et al.

from United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2005)n++n++144 n++n++3.4n++n++Leonard M. Baynes

from n++Racial Stereotypes, Broadcast Corporations, and the Business Judgment Rule.n++n++University of Richmond Law Review(March 2003)n++n++148Issue 4n++n++n++n++When Is Someone Acting on Your Behalf?n++n++167 n++n++4.1n++n++Chad P. Wade

from n++The Double Doctrine Agent,n++Valparaiso University Law Review(Fall 2007)n++n++171 n++n++4.2n++n++Thomas Genovese and Linda Genovese v. Joseph Bergeron and Theresa Bergeron

from Court of Appeals of South Carolina (1997)n++n++181 n++n++4.3n++n++Elizabeth Heinrich

from n++Selected Recent Court Decisionsn++Malpractice: Vicarious Liability Under Apparent Agency:James v. Ingalls Memorial Hospital,n++American Journal of Law & Medicine(1998)n++n++184 n++n++4.4n++n++William Hennessey

from n++Agency Law: Extending the Common Knowledge Doctrine,n++Florida Law Review(January 1995)n++n++186 n++n++4.5n++n+

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