Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment - The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment  (English, Paperback, Mallor Jane)

Mallor, Barnes, Bowers and Langvardt's: Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment, 14e is appropriate for the two-term business law course. The cases in the 14th edition are excerpted and edited by the authors. The syntax is not altered, therefore retaining the language of the courts. As in recent previous editions, the 14th edition includes a mix of actual and hypothetical cases.

Salient Features 

• Chapter 43 includes a new case on United States v. Jensen that relates to backdating stock options.
• Chapter 2 includes a discussion of the new federal rules governing discovery of electronically stored information.
• Chapter 8 includes, as new text cases, recent Supreme Court decisions on patent law. Chapter 8 also includes new material on the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006.
• Chapter 20 includes a new section on the preemption and regulatory compliance defenses in product liability cases, and features the Supreme Court?s recent Riegel decision in that section.
• Chapter 40 gives greater emphasis to the law affecting limited liability companies and covers the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act.
• Recent Supreme Court cases, such as Massachusetts v. EPA (Chapter 52), have been integrated in this edition.
• The latest case by Disney shareholders against former CEO Michael Eisner also is included in Chapter 43.
• Chapter 44 includes a new case, Brodie v. Jordan, in which the Supreme Court of Connecticut fashioned rights for a minority shareholder.
• The recent U.S. Supreme Court case, Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., was added in Chapter 45. The case is the latest on the issue of aiding and abetting under Securities Exchange Act Rule 10b-5.
• The professional liability chapter, Chapter 46, was updated with three new text cases on issues ranging from liability for negligent misrepresentation to the definition of scienter under Rule 10b-5.
• Chapter 45 includes recent SEC changes that expand the communications permitted during registered offerings of securities.
• Chapter 48 contains new text material discussing recent amendments to the Consumer Product Safety Act.
• Opening vignettes begin each chapter and present students with a mix of real-life and hypothetical situations and discussion questions.
• Chapter on Ethics and Ethics in Action boxes
• Cyberlaw in Action boxes.
• The Global Business Environment boxes.