Questions from Business Law

Q: What ideas do you have for setting up an accountability system to

What ideas do you have for setting up an accountability system to ensure compliance with codes of conduct and other ethical and social responsibility standards for business?

Q: Two cases in this chapter, Transatlantic Financing and Bernina Distributors,

Two cases in this chapter, Transatlantic Financing and Bernina Distributors, involved very different facts but similar issues of law. What legal issues do they have in common? In each case there is so...

Q: Explain the concepts of jurisdiction and minimum contacts. What application do

Explain the concepts of jurisdiction and minimum contacts. What application do they have in international disputes?

Q: In Alcoa, Judge Hand points out that even agreements to restrict

In Alcoa, Judge Hand points out that even agreements to restrict trade only in Europe and South America would have anticompetitive repercussions in the United States. What additional element did he re...

Q: Naoko Ohno, a Japanese citizen, obtained a $1.

Naoko Ohno, a Japanese citizen, obtained a $1.2 million tort judgment against the Saints of Glory Church, a California corporation, and its pastor Yuko Yasuma, a California resident, in Tokyo District...

Q: Two teenagers residing in North Carolina were fatally injured when the bus

Two teenagers residing in North Carolina were fatally injured when the bus upon which they were riding overturned on a roadway outside of Paris, France. The parents of the decedents brought a lawsuit...

Q: Nicastro was severely injured at his workplace in New Jersey by

Nicastro was severely injured at his workplace in New Jersey by an industrial metal shearing machine manufactured by J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd., an English company. Nicastro filed a product liabili...

Q: Why do so many litigants, “like moths to a flame

Why do so many litigants, “like moths to a flame,” want to litigate in the United States?

Q: Seung was a passenger on the M/S Paul Gauguin cruise

Seung was a passenger on the M/S Paul Gauguin cruise ship owned by Regent Seven Seas Cruises. The cruise ship operated exclusively in French Polynesia. Seung’s ticket contained a forum selection claus...

Q: Michael Ghannoum, a resident of Texas, was hired to work

Michael Ghannoum, a resident of Texas, was hired to work as a pilot for Qatar Airways. Qatar Airways is entirely owned by the government of Qatar. Ghannoum’s employment was based in Qatar, where he re...